QUARTER

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 38

The fourth part of any thing. As a term of weight, it denotes the fourth of a hundred weight or 2» pounds; as a dry measure, it signifies the fourth of a chaldron. Quarter. The after part of the ship's side. On the quarter, implies the bearing or position of an object seen between aft and abeam. [s. 1021]