Word Meanings - KNIGHTERRATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. [R.] Quart. Rev.

• Knights-errant
  of Knight-errant
• Quarterlies
  of Quarterly
• Quartridge
  Quarterage.
• KNIGHTSFEE
  The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
• Knight-errant
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• Quartermaster
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• KNIGHTTEMPLAR
  See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
• Knight-errantries
  of Knight-errantry
• 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.).
• Quartziferous
  Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
• 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.
• Knight-errantry
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
• Quarteron
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.

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