quarter-gallery Naut.
[quarter n. 22.]
1. A kind of balcony with windows, projecting from the quarter of a large vessel; cf. gallery 2 d.
| 1769 in Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) D ij. 1796 Nelson 10 Mar. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. xxxvii, The very heavy gales..carried away the starboard quarter-gallery. 1830 Scott Demonol. x. 363 He saw that the captain had thrown himself into the sea from the quarter-gallery. 1836 Marryat Midsh. Easy xiii, Pulled them out of the quarter gallery. 1867 [see quarter-badge s.v. quarter n. 30]. |
| attrib. 1797 Nelson Feb. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 342 A soldier..having broke the upper quarter-gallery window. |
2. A small projection on the quarter of a ship, containing lavatory accommodation (Cent. Dict.).