one-breaker_. The great petrel,
_Procellaria gigantea_.

QUECHE. A small Portuguese smack.

QUEEN ANNE'S FREE GIFT. A sum of money formerly granted to surgeons
annually, in addition to their monthly twopences from each man, or as
often as they passed their accounts.

QUEEN'S COCKPIT. A mess of dissolute mates and midshipmen of the old
_Queen_, 98, who held a sort of examination of ribaldry for a rank below
that of gentleman.

QUEEN'S OWN. Sea provision (when a queen reigns); similar to _king's
own_.

QUEEN'S PARADE. The quarter-deck.

QUERCITRON. _Quercus tinctoria_, the name of a North American oak, which
affords a valuable yellow dye.

QUERIMAN. A mullet of Guiana, found in turbid waters, where it lives by
suction.

QUERPO [Sp. _cuerpo_, body]. A close short jacket:

"Long-quartered pumps, with trowsers blue,
And querpo jacket, which last was new."

QUICKEN, TO. In ship-building, to give anything a greater curve; as, _to
quicken the sheer_, opposed to straightening it.

QUICKLIME. That which is unslacked, good for cleaning and white-washing
ships' holds.

QUICK-MARCH, OR QUICK-STEP. The ordinary pace is 3-1/4 miles to the
hour, or 110 paces (275) feet to the minute.

QUICK MATCH. Used as a train to any charge to be fired rapidly, is made
of cotton threads treated with a composition of gunpowder, gum, and
water; and burns nearly as would a train of loose powder.

QUICK RELIEF. One who turns out speedily to relieve the watch before the
sound is out of the bell.

QUICK-SAND. A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her
own weight as soon as the water retreats from her bottom.

QUICK SAVER. A span formerly used to prevent the courses from bellying
too much when off the wind.

QUICK-STEP. _See_ QUICK-MARCH.

QUICK-WORK. Generally signifies all that part of a ship which is under
water when she is laden; it is also applied to that part of the inner
upper-works of a ship above the covering board. Also, the short planks
worked inside between the ports. In ship-building the term strictly
applies to that part of a vessel's side which is above the chain-wales
and decks, as well as to the strakes which shut in between the
spirkettings and clamps. In general parlance quick-work is synonymous
with _spirketting_.

QUID. The chaw or dose of tobacco put into the mouth at a time. _Quid
est hoc?_ asked one, tapping the swelled cheek of his messmate; _Hoc est
quid_, promptly replied the othe