Quarter boat

Related to Quarter boat: jolly boat
(Naut.) a boat hung at a vessel's quarter.
- R. H. Dana, Jr.

See also: Quarter

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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