An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

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QUAI, a wharf or key on the side of a harbour or river.

Amarré à Quai, rangé à Quai, moored along-side of the key or wharf.

QUAIAGE, wharfage.

QUAICHE, a ketch, or ship so called.

QUARANTAINE, quarantine.

Faire Quarantaine, to perform quarantine.

QUARANTENIER, a rope of the size of a rattling-line, used as a lashing, &c.

QUARRÉ de reduction, see Quartier de reduction.

Quarré naval, the naval square, a scheme drawn on a ship’s quarter-deck, to represent the division of a fleet into three columns, and exhibit the station of each particular ship in the order of sailing; it is used to direct and regulate the movements of each ship with regard to the rest, and preserve the whole fleet in uniformity.

QUART de rond, saloire, tamisaille, the transom, upon which the tiller traverses in the gun-room. See Traverse.

Quart, the watch kept aboard ship, comprehending the time of its continuance, and the people employed to keep it.

Quart bon, or bon Quart, keep a good look out afore! look well out afore there!

Quart du jour, the day-watch.

Prendre le Quart, to set the watch.

Au Quart, au Quart! the watch, hoay! the starboard watch, hoay! the manner of calling the watch to relief.

Faire bon Quart sur la hune, to keep a good look-out in the tops.

Le premier Quart, or Quart de tribord, the starboard-watch. See Tribordais.

Second Quart, or Quart de bas-bord, the larboard-watch. See Basbordais.

QUARTS de vent, the quarter-points of the compass, or those which lie on each side of the cardinal and intermediate points, and are distinguished in English by the word by; as N by E, N E by N, &c.

QUARTIER Anglois, or Quart de nonante, a Davies’s quadrant.

Quartier de reduction, a sinical quadrant, used by the French pilots in working their days works, to discover the ship’s place.

Quartier-maître, an officer resembling the boatswain’s mate of an English ship.

Vent de Quartier, ou vent largue, a large, or quartering wind.

QUERAT, the planks of a ship’s bottom, comprehended between the keel and the wales.

QUETE, the rake of a ship abaft, or the rake of the stern-post.

QUEUE d’une armée navale, the rear of a fleet of ships of war.

Queue de rat, tapering to the end; expressed of such ropes as are pointed, or tapering towards the end, as the tacks, &c.

QUILLE, the keel of a ship.

Quille-fausse. See Fausse-quille.

QUINTAL, an hundred weight.