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Name Term description
NameQuaiffmaker Term description

Cap maker. One who makes soft headgear.

NameQuariour/quarrier/quarriour Term description

One who works in a quarry

NameQuarter-gunner Term description

One of a team manning a large gun in the army or the navy

NameQuartermaster Term description

Organiser of supplies, usually in the army or in a guild

NameQuarter-master Term description

Organiser of supplies, usually in the army or in a guild

NameQuartier Term description

Quartermaster of a ship

NameQueffmaker Term description

Cap maker

NameQuerrior Term description

One who works in a quarry

NameQueyn/quine Term description

A young woman

NameQueynie/quinie Term description

A little girl

NameQuondam Term description

Former or deceased

NameQuot Term description

The twentieth part of the moveable estate of a deceased person, which was originally the due of the bishop in whose diocese he had resided. It continued to be paid after the Reformation, but to the commissaries.

NameQuey/quoy Term description

A heifer. Other variants included 'ky' and 'coy'. For more information, see our guide to <a href="/guides/agricultural-produce-and-livestock">agricultural produce and livestock</a>.

NameQuinsy Term description

A complication of tonsillitis characterised by the formation of abscesses (also known as suppurative tonsillitis or p<span class="st">eritonsillar abscess).</span>