Word Meanings - FRIGATE-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

• 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.
• 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.).
• QUARTERONQUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• Quarteron
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
• Quarteroon
  A quadroon.
• QUARTERROUND
  An ovolo.
• 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.
• Forecastle
  A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
• Quarter round
  An ovolo.
• Quarterstaves
  of Quarterstaff
• Frigate-built
  Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
• 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
• Raisable
  Capable of being raised.
• Quartering
  of Quartter

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