advb. phr. Naut. [A prep.1 + QUARTER sb.] On the quarter, i.e., 45° abaft the beam.

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1849.  Cupples, in Blackw. Mag., LXV. 333/1. I felt the ship bring her wind a-quarter, with a furious plunge of the Channel water along her bends, that made every landsman’s bowels yearn as if he felt it gurgle through him.

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