Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One fifth of a circle.
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Examples
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Having successfully performed this duty, and obtained the observations he required, Mr. Yule thought it high time to return on board; but the surf had in the meantime increased so heavily, that in the attempt the second gig was swamped, and every thing in her, including the arms, lost, except the quintant and chronometer, the boat herself being with difficulty saved by being towed outside the surf by the other gig.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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My quintant was first wrested from my coxswain, who in a tone of grief made me known the circumstance.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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