What's the difference between binnacle and quartermaster?
Binnacle
Definition:
(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binnacle protected the ship's metal compass and its coming home to Cardiff is the result of a long hard fight by Dr Peter Lloyd Jones and Michael Tarver, vice president of the Captain Scott Society.
(2) They told me a bit more about the binnacle in the video below.
(3) It is here visitors will get the chance to view the original binnacle from the Terra Nova ship which took Captain Scott and his team on their ill-fated voyage to Antarctica in 1910.
Quartermaster
Definition:
(n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
(n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quartermaster for the organisation in Belfast, Molloy is said to have confessed to having been an informer for the British for three years, disclosing the location of arms dumps and possibly providing information in 1973 that led to the arrest of 16 leading members, including Adams and Hughes.
(2) "You were the trained chemist and quartermaster and you were in direct communication with Pakistan," the judge said.
(3) Assad Sarwar Former postman Sarwar, 29 was said by the prosecution to be the quartermaster of the plot, purchasing and storing bomb-making materials.
(4) But they also left audiences wondering quite why producers had bothered to introduce this bumbling new take on the MI6 quartermaster (who also inadvertently let Raoul Silva in to embark on his rampage through the corridors of power, lest we forget).