quarter jackn.1
/ˈkwɔːtədʒak/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrdərˌdʒæk/ 1. A jack of the clock which strikes the quarters. See Jack n.2 6, Jack of the clock n. at Jack n.2 Phrases 3.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale To Rdr. sig. A4v The quarter Iacks in Powls [i.e. St Paul's], that are vp with their Elbows foure times an houre.
1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 92 On the East side is a dial of near ten feet square, with quarter jacks under it.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xvi. 190 A little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it.
1909 Times 18 Jan. 12/4 The ‘Quarter Jack’ in the western tower..is set in motion by the old clock.
1950 Home Words Christmas 184/2 At Carfax, Oxford, a pair of fine quarter-jacks are placed in a prominent position beneath the dial of the clock.
1998 R. M. Cooper Literary Guide & Compan. S. Eng. (rev. ed.) 250 Among the minster's many other attractions are a seventeenth century chained library and the ‘jack-o'-clock’, or quarter jack.
2. Military slang. = quartermaster n. 3. rare.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster
quartermaster1590
fourrier1678
Q.M.1791
quartermaster captain1846
Q1916
quarter1917
quarter-bloke1918
quarter jack1930
1930 G. MacMunn Behind Scenes in Many Wars xiv. 300 Fresh caviare..annoyed our men when they got a ration of it and complained of ‘that black jam, what the quarter-jack had said was fish’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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