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Name	Term description
Name Quaiffmaker	Term description Cap maker. One who makes soft headgear.
Name Quariour/quarrier/quarriour	Term description One who works in a quarry
Name Quarter-gunner	Term description One of a team manning a large gun in the army or the navy
Name Quarter-master	Term description Organiser of supplies, usually in the army or in a guild
Name Quartermaster	Term description Organiser of supplies, usually in the army or in a guild
Name Quartier	Term description ? Quartermaster of a ship
Name Queffmaker	Term description Cap maker
Name Querrior	Term description One who works in a quarry
Name Quey/quoy	Term description A heifer. Other variants included 'ky' and 'coy'. For more information, see our guide to agricultural produce and livestock.
Name Queyn/quine	Term description A young woman
Name Queynie/quinie	Term description A little girl
Name Quinsy	Term description A complication of tonsillitis characterised by the formation of abscesses (also known as suppurative tonsillitis or peritonsillar abscess).
Name Quondam	Term description Former or deceased
Name Quot	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.