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quarter-wind
a. A wind blowing on a vessel's quarter.
†b. A wind from one of the cardinal points. Obs.
a.1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Aorça, with a quarter winde. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. vii. 32 Few ships will steare vpon quarter winds with one saile. 1692Ibid. i. xvi. 80 Quarter Winds, are when the Wind comes in abaft the main-mast-shrouds even with the Quarter. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The quarter-wind is the best of all winds, as bearing into all the sails. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 243.
b.1598Florio, Quarta,..a quarter winde of the compasse. |