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Back Alley
See Little Bell Alley, Copthall Buildings.
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Three Crane Stairs
At the south end of Queen Street, on the Thames, in Vintry Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 13-Lockie...
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Three Crane Street
In Thames Street (Strype, ed. 1755). Not named in the maps.
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Three Crane Tavern
South out of Poultry, opposite St. Mildred's Church (Strype, maps, ed. 1720 and 1755).
Cleared away...
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Crane
·add. ·noun The American blue heron (Ardea herodias).
II. Crane ·noun A siphon, or bent pipe, for d...
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Crane
(Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7). In both of these passages the Authorized Version has reversed the Hebrew ord...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The Crane
1) A house in Crooked Lane demised 15 Chas. I. for the use of the parish of St. Michael (End. Ch. Re...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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crane
n.
common English bird-name. InAustralia used for (1) the Native-Companion (q.v.), Grusaustralianus...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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crane
A machine for raising and lowering great weights, by which timber and stores are hoisted upon wharfs...
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Crane
The crane (Grus cinerea) is a native of Europe and Asia. It stand about four feet high. Its color is...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Back Alley, Shoe Lane
East out of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Site now occupied by ...
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Back Alley, Three Foxes Court
Out of Three Foxes Court, Long Lane, West Smithfield (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the m...
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Back Alley, Bear Alley
South out of Bear Alley and west to Fleet Market (Rocque, 1746-Dodsley, 1761). See Back Bear Alley.
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Back
·noun A ferryboat. ·see <<Bac>>, 1.
II. Back ·adv (Of time) In times past; ago.
III. Back ·noun Th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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back
is often used for ago; as in the phrase, "a little while back," i. e. "a short time ago."
Behind th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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back
♦ To back an anchor. To carry a small anchor ahead of the one by which the ship rides, to partake of...
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Back Bear Alley
On the south side of Bear Alley, Fleet Market, in Farringdon (Lockie, 1810 and 1816).
Former names ...
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Ebgate Back Alley
Mentioned in the registers of St. Laurence Pountney, 1628 (Wilson, p. 132).
Not further identified....
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Northumberland Back Alley
West out of Northumberland Alley. In Aldgate Ward (O.S. 1880).
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Three Crown Alley, Bride Lane
See Three Crowns Yard.
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Three Ton Alley, Ivy Lane
See Ship Alley and Three Tuns Alley, Court, Newgate Street.
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Three Cranes Lane
South out of Upper Thames Street, at No.77, to Three Cranes Wharf (P.O. Directory). In Vintry Ward.
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Three Anchor Alley
In Shoe Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Name derived from the sign.
...
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Three Crown Alley
1) See Three Crown Court, Minories.
2) South-west out of Houndsditch (O. and M. 1677).
Site rebuil...
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Three Horshoe Alley
East out of Fetter Lane to Thavie's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occu...
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Three Leg Alley
1) West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, near Bethlem Churchyard (Strype, ed....
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Three Legges Alley
In parish of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside, or West Chepe 27 H. VIII. 1536 (L. and P. H. VIII. X. p.1...
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Three Nunnes Alley
See Three Nuns Court.
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Three Pigeon Alley
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755)
Site seems occupied by...
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Three Ton Alley
In Long Lane (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Three Tuns Alley
In Aldermanbury (Lockie, 1816).
Not named in the maps.
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Three
·adj One more than two; two and one.
II. Three ·noun A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii...
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Titan crane
·add. ·- A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting cra...
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Water crane
·- A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotiv...
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Crane Court
1) West out of Lambeth Hill in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Between Peter's Hil...
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nankeen crane
or Nankeen Bird, or Nankeen Night Heron
n.
the Australian bird Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmel. Both ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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crane-barge
A low flat-floored lump, fitted for the purpose of carrying a crane, in aid of marine works.
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crane-lines
Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...
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steam-crane
A crane worked by means of a steam-engine.
...
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Limeburners' Alley, Lane
In Seacoal Lane (S. 392) in the parish of St. Sepulchre, in Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention:...
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Back Gravel Lane, Houndsditch
South out of Stoney Lane at No.40 to Gravel Lane (q.v.). In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).
First ...
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The Back Alley, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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The Three Crowns, Foster Lane
See Three Crown Court2.
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Three Kings Alley, Minories
See Three King Court.
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Three Pigeon Alley, Barbican
See Three Pigeon Court.
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Three Tuns Alley, Court
South out of Newgate Street, with a passage to Newgate Market and east to Ivy Lane. In Farringdon Wa...
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Three Tuns Court, Alley
In Threadneedle Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Lane
·adj <<Alone>>.
II. Lane ·noun A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a hig...
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lane
"Make a lane there!" An order for men to open a passage and allow a person to pass through.
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Alley
·noun A choice taw or marble.
II. Alley ·noun A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
III. ...
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alley
(Lat. albus, white.) An ornamented marble, used by boys for shooting in the ring, &c.; also called i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Back door
·- A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...
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Back stairs
·- Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or i...
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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
— said of an internal-combustion engine....
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Diamond-back
·noun The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
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Hog's-back
·noun A <<Hogback>>.
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Warty-back
·add. ·noun An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons...
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Water back
·- ·see under 1st Back.
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Watteau back
·add. ·- The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck ...
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Back Court
North out of Cloth Fair at No.21 and east, parallel to and between Long Lane and Cloth Fair (P.O. Di...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Back Yard
1) Out of Pelican Court, Little Britain (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) Out ...
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back biter
One who slanders another behind his back, i.e. in his absence. His bosom friends are become his back...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, w...
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back door
(usher, or gentleman of the)
A sodomite.
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bloody back
A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat.
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bully back
A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit t...
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crook back
Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE.
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back-blocks
n.
1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydneyside Saxon,' vol. xii. p. 215:
«`What a nic...
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back-blocker
n.
a resident in the back-blocks.
1870. `The Argus,' March 22, p. 7, col. 2
«I am a bushman, a ba...
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back-slanging
verbal n.
In the back-blocks (q.v.) of Australia, where hotels are naturally scarce andinferior, th...
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fiddle-back
n.
name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae.
...
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mealy-back
n.
a local name for the locust (q.v.).
...
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saddle-back
n.
a bird of the North Island ofNew Zealand, Creadion carunculatus, Cab. See also Jack-bird and Cre...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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pick-back
On the back.--Johnson. We often use the word with children. To ride pick-back, is for a child to rid...
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u-back
U-BLOCK, &c. ; a christmas-block. See yu-batch. N.
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back-board
A board across the stern sheets of a boat to support the back of passengers; and also to form the bo...
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back-cutting
When the water-level is such that the excavation of a canal, or other channel, does not furnish eart...
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back-frame
A vertical wheel for turning the three whirlers of a small rope-machine.
...
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back-her
The order, in steam-navigation, directing the engineer to reverse the movement of the cranks and urg...
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back-rope
The rope-pendant, or small chain for staying the dolphin-striker. Also a piece long enough to reach ...
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back-staff
A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...
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back-strapped
As a ship carried round to the back of Gibraltar by a counter-current and eddies of wind, the strong...
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back-sweep
That which forms the hollow of the top-timber of a frame.
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back-water
The swell of the sea thrown back, or rebounded by its contact with any solid body. Also the loss of ...
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beaten back
Returning into port from stress of foul weather.
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heckle-back
A name of the fifteen-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus spinachia.
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razor-back
The fin-whale (Balænoptera), so called from its prominent dorsal fin. It usually attains the length ...
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strong-back
The same with Samson's post (which see). Also, an adaptation of a strong piece of wood over the wind...
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swart-back
The Larus marinus, or great black and white gull.
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thorn-back
A well-known fish of the ray kind, Raia clavata.
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walk back!
A method in cases where a purchase must not be lowered by a round turn, as "Walk back the capstan;" ...
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Angel Alley, Golden Lane
See Angel Court.
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Angel Alley, Nightingale Lane
West out of Nightingale Lane at No.22 to Sun Yard, the third turning on the right from Upper East Sm...
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Angel Alley, Stoney Lane
North out of Stoney Lane, west of Angel Court. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720).
Removed for er...
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Ball Alley, Sherbourne Lane
At. No. 5 Sherbourne Lane, opposite the Post Office Yard.
A dark passage leading into St. Swithin's...
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Bell Alley, Abchurch Lane
In Abechurch Lane, mentioned in deed of 1649 (End. Ch. Rep. St. Michael Crooked Lane, 1903, p. 8).
...
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Bell Alley, Golden Lane
West out of Golden Lane, on the northern boundary of the City and of Cripplegate Ward Without, runni...
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Bell Alley, Hosier Lane
North out of Hosier Lane. In Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720, I. iii. 284).
Th...
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Boot Alley, Nicholas Lane
See Nicholas Passage.
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Brewers Alley, Shoe Lane
See Brewhouse Yard.
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Church Alley, Clements Lane
See Church Court.
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Church Alley, Ironmonger Lane
See Church Court.
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Churchyard Alley, Clement's Lane
See Church Court.
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Cock Alley, Fleet Lane
See Cock Court.
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Crown Alley, Petticoat Lane
South-west out of Petticoat Lane (Middlesex Street). In Portsoken Ward (Boyle, 1799).
Earliest ment...
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George Alley, Birchin Lane
See Bengal Court.
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Hand Alley, Philip Lane
See Hand Court.
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Horn Alley, Basing Lane
See Harts Horn Court.
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Horn Alley, Beer Lane
See Horn Court.
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Horne Alley, Shoe Lane
Mentioned 1654 (L. and P. Commonw. VII. 341).
Qy. = Horse Alley.
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Horshoe Alley, Cock Lane
See Horshoe Court.
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Jack Alley, Bow Lane
See Crown Court16, Trinity Lane.
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Mearmaid Alley, Warwick Lane
See Mermaid Court.
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Star Alley, Mark Lane
West out of Mark Lane, north of Hart Street, and running north to Fenchurch Street. In Tower Ward (P...
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Star Alley, Seething Lane
West out of Seething Lane, opposite Green Arbour Court (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). In Tower Ward....
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Back Alley, Yard, Little Moorfields
West out of Back Street, Little Moorfields, with passage south to Moor Lane (Strype, ed. 1720), and ...
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Three-coat
·adj Having or consisting of three coats;
— applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, fl...
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Three-color
·add. ·adj Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, ...
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Three-cornered
·adj Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
II. Three-cornered ·adj Having thre...
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Three-decker
·noun A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
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Three-flowered
·adj Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
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Three-handed
·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...
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Three-leafed
·adj ·Alt. of Three-leaved.
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Three-leaved
·adj Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
II. Three-leaved ·adj Consisting of three...
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Three-lobed
·adj Having three lobes.
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Three-mile
·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...
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Three-nerved
·adj Having three nerves.
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Three-parted
·adj Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
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Three-pile
·noun An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
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Three-piled
·adj Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown.
II. Three-piled ·adj Having the quality of three-p...
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Three-ply
·adj Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having ...
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Three-pointed
·adj Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...
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Three-quarter
·adj Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five;
— said of portraitures.
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Three-score
·adj Thrice twenty; sixty.
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Three-sided
·adj Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, pedunc...
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Three-square
·adj Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle;
— said especially of a kind of ...
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Three-valved
·adj Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp....
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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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The Three Cranes
A famous tavern in the parish of St. Martin Vintry in the Ward of Vintree, 22 Eliz. (1580) (Lond. I....
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The Three Cappes
An Inn so called in parish of St. Andrew in Holborn, 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. (2), ...
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The Three Crowns
Messuage so called in parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstrete, 1569 and 1576 (Lond. I. p.m. 18 Eliz. ...
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The Three Kings
Brewhouse and wharf in East Smithfield, west of the Katherine Wheel and Mille Docke, part of the pos...
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The Three Legs
In Cannon Street, 1655 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
Not named in the maps.
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Three Nonnes
Tenement so called in parish of St. James Garlykhith, 22 H. VIII. 1530 (L. and P. H. VIII. Vol. IV. ...
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The Three Tuns
1) A tavern in Guildhall Yard. General Monk lodged at this tavern by Guildhall Gate, 1659 (Gent. Mag...
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three threads
Half common ale, mixed with stale and double beer.
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three-deckers
Ships with three full batteries.
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three sisters
Formerly the badge of office of boatswains' mates and masters-at-arms, made of three rattans bound t...
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three-square
An odd word applied to staysails, or anything triangular, as was the oblong square to a parallelogra...
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Three Taverns
A station on the Appian Road, along which St. Paul travelled from Puteoli to Rome. (Acts 28:15) The ...
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Three Hard Court, Creechurch Lane
See Three Herring Court.
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Three Colts Alley, Bishopsgate Without
See Three Colt Court.
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Three Tun Alley, Thames Street
, Three Tun Court
North out of Thames Street, between Fish Street Hill and St. Michael's Lane (O. an...
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Three Tun Alley, London Wall
See Drapers' Buildings.
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Back Alley, Great Gardens, St. Katherine's
North out of the Great Gardens, St. Katherine's Lane, East Smithfield (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1816).
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Bell Alley, St. Katherine's Lane
See Bell Court.
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Black Boy Alley, Seething Lane
See Black Dog Alley.
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Blue Anchor Alley, Rosemary Lane
See Crown and Shears Place and Red Gate Court.
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Church Side Alley, Fetter Lane
See Churchyard Alley.
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White Bear Alley, Rosemary Lane
See Bell Alley, Little Tower Hill.
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White Hart Alley, Long Lane
See White Hart Court.
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Three Tun Alley, Bishopsgate St. Without
See Farrar's Rents.
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back gammon player
A sodomite.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
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back-o'-beyond
Said of an unknown distance.
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back off all
The order when the harpooner has thrown his harpoon into the whale. Also, to back off a sudden dange...
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canvas-back duck
An American wild duck (Fuligula valisneria), which takes this name from the colour of the back feath...
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fall back, to
To recede from any position previously occupied.
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put back, to
To return to port generally the last left.
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Gother Lane, Gotherun Lane
See Gutter Lane.
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Lymbarneres Lane, Lymbrenneres Lane
See Limeburners' Alley, Lane.
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Synechenes Lane, Synedene Lane
See Seething Lane.
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By-lane
·noun A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.
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Amen Lane
Added to Creed Lane, betwixt the south end of Warwicke Lane and the north end of Ave Mary Lane (S. 3...
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(St.) Andrew's Lane
See St. Andrew Hubbard Lane.
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(St.) Ann's Lane
West out of Foster Lane to St. Martin's le Grand, in Aldersgate Ward Within (O.S. 1880).
First ment...
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Arounes Lane
Lands and tenements within the parish of St. Peter the Less in " Themsestrete," situate between the ...
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Artillery Lane
East out of Bishopsgate (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Without and Stepney. Nos. 2 to 30 and ...
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Arundel Lane
A tenement at the corner of the lane called "Arundel lane" in the parish of All Hallows upon the sol...
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Ballardes Lane
West out of Chancery Lane.
A messuage in Chancery Lane is described as lying between the messuage i...
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Banister's Lane
East out of Blackfriars to Charles Street.
See Earl Street.
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Baremane Lane
Shops in " Baremanelane " in parish of St. Mary Woolnoth or St. Mary de Newchirch devised by Master ...
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Bartholomew Lane
South out of Lothbury to Threadneedle Street at No.63, on the east side of the Bank of England. In B...
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Barton Lane
Out of Tower Street (W. Stow, 1722).
Not named in the maps.
Not further identified.
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Basing Lane
West out of Bow Lane to Bread Street, in Cordwainer and Bread Street Wards (O.S.1848-51).
Earliest ...
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Bearbinder Lane
Extended from the Stocks Market, the present Mansion House and Walbrook east to St. Swithin's Lane a...
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Beare Lane
See Beer Lane.
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Beavis Lane
See Heneage Lane.
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Beech Lane
South-east from No.13 Beech Street to No.51 Whitecross Street (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward ...
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Beer Lane
South out of Great Tower Street at No.36 to No.52 Lower Thames Street. In Tower Ward (P.O. Directory...
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Beggars Lane
An open passage into Charterhouse Yard and so unto Smithfield Bars and St. John Street, in Aldersgat...
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Belheteres Lane
See Billiter Street.
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Belieters Lane
See Billiter Street.
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