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iiiftances. This plan of proceeding is fuppofed to give cafe, 

 facility, and difpatcli, to the work which is afterwards car- 

 ried on, as well as to have fevcral other advantages and con- 

 veniences. See Farm. 



QvARTmi-Bi//, in Sea Language, a roll or lift, containing 

 the different ftations, to whicli all the officers and crew of the 

 fhip are quartered, in the time of battle, and the names of all 

 the perfons appointed to thofe ftations. 



QvARTER-Bu/li-t, a bullet quartered into four or eight 

 parts. 



QvAHTEK-C/iorJ, in Mining, feven yards and a quarter, 

 which the miner hath crofs-ways of his vein on either fide, 

 for liberty to lay his earth, ftones, and rubbilh on, and to 

 wafli and drefs up his ore. 



Quarters, Clo/e, in a SMp. See CLOSE-Quarlers. 

 QuARTZK-Cloths, are long pieces of painted canvas ex- 

 tended on the outfide of the quarter-netting from the 

 upper part of the gallei-y to the gang-way. They are 

 generally decorated with martial inftruments, or allegorical 

 figures. 



QuARTER-Day. See Quarter. 



QuARTEH-Z)fr/{ ef a ftiip, is that aloft the fteerage, reach- 

 ing to the round-houfe ; or that deck in (hips of war which 

 extends from the main-maft to the ftern, next above the 

 upper-deck. 



Quarter, Fat, in a Ship, denotes the fame with hroad. 

 Thus, if the truffing in, or tuck of a ftiip's quarter under 

 Water be deep, they fay, (he hath z^fat quarter. 



Quarter-G«//«_)/, a fort of fmall balcony, with or with- 

 out balluftrades, on the quarter of a (liip ; which generally 

 communicates with the gallery on the ftern, by means of a 

 door pafling from one to the other. 

 QuARTER-Gaan/. See Guard. 



QuARTER-Gannfr, is an inferior officer under the direc- 

 tion of the gunner of a (hip of war, whom he is to affift in 

 every branch of his duty ; as keeping the guns and their car- 

 riages in proper order, and duly furnilhed with whatever is 

 nece(rary ; filling the powder into cartridges ; fcaling the 

 guns, and keeping them always in a condition ready for fer- 

 vice. The number of quarter-gunners in any (hip is always 

 in proportion to the number of her artillery; one quarter- 

 gunner being allowed to every four cannon. 



QuARTER-A^f«i;;_f, is a fort of net-work, extended along 

 the rails on the upper part of a (hip's quarter. In a (hip of 

 war thefe are always double, being fupported by iron cranes, 

 placed at proper diftances. The interval is fometimes filled 

 with cork or old fails, but chiefly with the hammocks of the 

 failors, fo as to form a parapet to prevent the execution of the 

 enemy's fmall arms in an engagement. 



QuARTEK-P/Wfj', fubftantial pieces of timber, moltly of 

 fir, that form the outboandary of the ftern, and conneft 

 the q\iarter-gallery to the ftern and toffarel. 

 QuARTER-Pow;/ of the Compafs. See Point. 

 QuARTER-/?ai7j, in a Ship, are narrow-moulded planks, 

 generally of fir, reaching from the top of the ftern to the 

 gang-way. They are fupported by ftanchions, and ferve as 

 a fence to the quarter-deck, to prevent the men from tum- 

 bling into the fea by the rolling of the (hip, particularly in 

 fmall velTels. 



QuARTER-/?o«n(/, in ArchiteSure, is a term ufed by the 

 workmen for any projefting moulding in general, whofe con- 

 tour is a perfeft quadrant, or quarter of a circle, or which 

 approaches near that figure. 



The architefts ufually call it ovolo ; and Vitruvius, the 

 echinus. 



QuARTER-5£|^onx, General, Court of. See Court of 

 General Quarter-Sejpom, and Sessions. 



QuARTER-.S/a^ a long ftaff, or pole, borne by forefters, 

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park-keepers, &c. as a badge of their office ; and occafioiially 

 ufed as a weapon. 



QvAHTEU-lVheeling, or Quarter of Converfion, in the Mi- 

 litary yirt, is the motion by which the front of a body of me;i 

 is turned round to where the flank was ; this making tlie 

 quarter of a circle. 



If it be done to the right, the man in the right-hand angle 

 keeps his ground, and faces about, while the reft wheel ; if to 

 the left, the left-hand man keeps his place, &c. 



QuARTF.R-lVind, at Sea, is a lateral, or fide-wi'iid ; or a 

 wiiul which does not blow in Hern, but a little alide of it. 



Properly, the quarter-wind is that which comes in abaft the 

 main-mafi: (hrouds, even with the quarter of the fliip. 



The quarter-wind is the beft of all winds, as bearing into 

 all the fails ; whereas a wind blowing full in ftern, is kept ofl 

 by the (ails of the mizen. 



QUARTERA, in Commerce, a corn-meafure in Spain, 

 containing i2cortanes: the falma contains 4 quarteras, or 

 48 cortanes ; the carga, 2^ quarteras, or 30 cortanes : 

 78;!: quarteras correfpond to 100 Caftilian fanegas ; and 

 100 quarteras Catalan to 128 Caftilian fanegas; 39 quar- 

 teras Catalan contain 10 Englifh quarters. The carga of 

 wine and brandy is divided into 16 cortanes, 32 quarteras, 

 or 128 quartillos. 



At Barcelona 39.08 quarteras are equal to 10 Englifti 

 quarters, and a fingle quartera contains 4401 cubic inches. 

 Kelly's Un. Cambift. 



QUARTERED, Counter. See Counter-quar- 

 tered. 



QUARTERIDGE, money paid quarterly, or by the 

 quarter. 



QUARTERING of Soldiers, in Military Languagt, 

 feems to have anciently differed very little from that novr 

 in ufe, except that they were indifcriminately quartered upon 

 all houfeholders, as was praftifed in England fo late as in 

 the rebellion of the year 1745. Rapin fays, that William the 

 Conqueror quartered almoft all his troeps upon the monaf- 

 teries, and obliged the monks to furnilh them with ne- 

 ceffaries ; by which means he maintained his army without 

 any charge, and had fpies in all their religious houfes, wha 

 watched the aftions of the monks ; thefe houfes were 

 long after charged with finding carts and horfes for the 

 carrying the baggage of the army ; and there are ftill ex- 

 tant many of the original returns from different monaf- 

 teries, ftating the number of each they were able to fur- 

 ni(h for that purpofe. About the time of Henry VII. 

 we meet with a regulation that bears fome reference ta 

 quarters : this is a coat and conduft-money ; the firft was a 

 fpecies of cloathing, probably for recruits ; the money for 

 which was advajiced by the county in which they were 

 raifed ; — conduft-money was an allowance for fubfiftence, to 

 and from the army, according to the number of days which 

 the foldiers had to march ; a day's march being eft imated fome- 

 times at 1 2 and fometimes at 1 5 miles. Both the coat and con- 

 duft-money were occafionaUy advanced by the different coun- 

 ties in which the troops were quartered, under the promife 

 of being repaid by government. Towards the latter end 

 of the reign of king James II. and even after the acceffion 

 of king William III. foldiers ufed to oblige the inhabitants 

 of the towns in which they were quartered, not only to 

 furnifh them with diet and lodging, but alfo to advance 

 them their daily fubfiftence. After the revolution, by the 

 mutiny-aft, pafTed the 23d day of December, in the year 

 1689, other laws and regulations refpefting quarters we^e 

 enafted. 



By the petition of right in the third of Charles I. it 

 is enafted and declared, that the people of the land 

 are not by the lavvs to be burthened with the fojouming 



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