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Quartermaster

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The officer whose duty it is to attend to the quarters of the soldiers. He superintends the issue of stores, food, and clothing. (See Quarters.)

As a nautical term, a quartermaster is a petty officer who, besides other duties, attends to the steering of the ship.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Quarrel with your Bread and Butter (To)
Quarry (A)
Quarry
Quart dHeure (Mauvais)
Quarter
Quarter-days in England and Ireland:
Quarter Waggoner
Quarters
Quarterdeck
Quartermaster
Quartered
Quarto
Quarto-Decimans
Quashee
Quasi (Latin)
Quasimodo
Quasimodo Sunday
Quassia
Quatorziennes (fourteeners)
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