Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, projections beyond the quarters of a ship for additional cabin accommodation.
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Examples
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Both of these coins are subdivided into halves and quarter-pieces, and the dollar is divided into eight reals, one of which is equal to two and a half reals of the vellon money current in the
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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The pair of them, too, had false quarter-pieces to ship and unship for disguise, and each was provided with movable boards painted with the other's name, to cover up her own.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Every day he took from me some quarter-pieces of money and went to work for another man called Shumooshag, and to work with Nagísh, and with Gasís, and with
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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