Word Meanings - FRIGATE-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
- Quartern
A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.). - QUARTERDECK
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Note: The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers. - Quarteron
A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. - QUARTERONQUARTEROON
A quadroon. - Quarteroon
A quadroon. - QUARTERROUND
An ovolo. - Forecastle
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. - Quarterpace
A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace. - QUARTERSAW
To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously. - Quarter round
An ovolo. - Frigate-built
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. - Quarterstaves
of Quarterstaff - Quarterstaff
A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end. - Quartered
of Quartter - Quartering
of Quartter - Raisable
Capable of being raised.
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