GUNTER'S QUADRANT
Gun"ter's quad`rant.
Defn: A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
GUNTER'S SCALE
Gun"ter's scale`.
Defn: A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone.
GUNWALE Gun"wale, n. Etym: [Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.] (Naut.)
Defn: The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]
GURGE
Gurge, n. Etym: [L. gurges.]
Defn: A whirlpool. [Obs.] The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.
GURGE
Gurge, v. t. Etym: [See Gorge.]