(nautical) A list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.

(nautical) In a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter.

(nautical) A petty officer who assists the gunner.

(historical) One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.

(geology) A form of quartz with an unusual microscopic structure that has been deformed along planes inside the crystal by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature; generally produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

plural of quarterer

(time) quarter of an hour; period of time equal to 15 minutes; a quarter.

Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.

(military) No mercy; no sparing the life of a captured opponent.

plural of quarter tone