| 单词 | quarter timber | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter timber   quarter timber  n. 		 †(a) quartered timber (obsolete);		 (b) Nautical (in plural) the timbers used in framing the quarters of a vessel (now rare);		 †(c) timber in the form of quarters (sense  19) (obsolete). ΚΠ 1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny Hist. World I. 488  				The quarter timber, or that which runneth with foure grains, is simply the best. 1846    A. Young Naut. Dict. 243  				Quarter-timbers, the framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. 1875    E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1844/1  				Quarter-timber,..scantling from 2 to 6 inches deep. 1955    Mariner's Mirror 41 310  				Then comes the foot hooks (footocks), the quarter timbers and the bow timbers. < as lemmas | 
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