See Also: quake(2)(dictionary)
quake(1)(dictionary)
quake 1, verb(dictionary)
quake 2, noun(dictionary)
Gunter(dictionary)
gunter's line(medicine)
Blobel, Gunter(encyclopedia)
Grass, Gunter(dictionary)
Gunter's scale(medicine)
Gunter's quadrant(medicine)

quake(1) (iou) and Gunter (iou)


quake(1) (iou)



quake noun (In sense 2) also 'quake. ME.
[from the noun In sense 2 now interpreted as abbreviation of earthquake.]
An act of quaking or trembling. ME.
spec. An earthquake. colloq. L19.

Gunter (iou)



Gunter noun. L17.
[Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), English mathematician.]
Gunter's chain, a surveyor's chain 66 feet long, the use of which gave rise to this distance as a unit of length (cf. CHAIN noun 6b). L17.
(Also gunter.) A long ruler graduated on one side with trigonometrical and Other functions and on the Other side with the logarithms of these, formerly used in surveying and navigation. Also more fully Gunter's scale. E18.
Nautical. Orig., a type of rig in which the topmast slides up and down the lower mast on rings. Now, a fore-and-aft sail whose spar is nearly vertical, so that the sail is nearly triangular. Also Gunter rig. L18.