Big Book - Q
Quadroon child of a mulatto and white parentage; a child with one black grandparent.
Quarantine (Station) From 1728, some Customs officials - Quarantines - were given the responsibility of watching quarantine hulks anchored offshore to ensure nobody left them before their period of quarantine had expired on arriving from abroad.
Quarrel Picker Glazier
Quarrier / Quarry Man Quarry worker (!)
Quay Clerk Clerk who worked at a wharf or quay, and still does so today
Quiller Operated machinery winding yarn onto quills or spools A quill is a reed on to which the thread of the weft was wound when weaving cloth.
Quilter / Quiltress Quilted material
Quire four sheets of paper folded together in half to make eight - mediaeval manuscript. More generally a quire can be any even number of sheets folded to make a section of sheets in a document (as in book binding for example)
Quister - bleached articles
Quitclaim renunciation of right (land, in particular)
Quitclaim deed transfer of land or claim without guaranting a clear title.
Quit rent rent (usually nominal) paid by freeholder or copy holder in lieu of service.
Quod vide directs the reader to look in another part of the book for further information.
q.v. (abbreviation)quod vide (see above).
