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 toward the end, as the tacks, &c.

QUILLE, the keel of a ship.

QUILLE.fausse. See FAUSSE.QUILLE.

QUINTAL, an hundred weight.

A QUITTE, the state of the anchor when it is hove out of the ground in a perpendicular direction.

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