quarter-gun

Updated: May 23, 2025

But there was our lads what was left o' 'em reeking wi' sweat, black wi' powder, splashed wi' blood, fighting the guns; and there was his Honor the Cap'n, leaning against the quarter-rail wi' his sword in one hand, and his snuff-box in t' other he had two hands then, d'ye see, young sir; and there was me, hauling on the tackle o' one o' the quarter-guns it happened to be short-handed, d'ye see when, all at once, I felt a kind o' shock, and there I was flat o' my back, and wi' the wreckage o' that there quarter-gun on this here left leg o' mine, pinning me to the deck.

Jeffery Farnol - The Amateur Gentleman