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| QUARTER | The part of a vessel's side between the after part of the main
chains and the stern. The quarter of a yard is between
the slings and the yard-arm.
The wind is said to be quartering, when it blows in a line between that of the keel and the beam and abaft the latter. |
| QUARTER-BLOCK | A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve through. |
| QUARTER-DECK | That part of the upper deck abaft the main-mast. |
| QUARTER-MASTER | A petty officer in a man-of-war, who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, and watches for signals, &c., when in port. |
| QUICK-WORK | That part of a vessel's side which is above the chain-wales and decks. So called in ship-building. |
| QUILTING | A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven together. |
| QUIVIS | Anyone or anything, whoever or whatever. |
| QUOIN | A wooden wedge for the breech of a gun to rest upon. |
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