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Blue Anchor Yard
West out of Coleman Street at No. 1 and north to London Wall. In Coleman Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-E...
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Blue Anchor Alley
1) In Great Minories (Dodsley, 1761).
Not further identified.
2) In St. Katherine's precinct (Dods...
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Blue Anchor
Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extends to the Blue Anchor (Str...
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Tower Hill
North and west of the Tower, west from the Minories and south to Tower Bridge (P.O. Directory). In P...
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George Yard, Tower Hill
See George Street, Tower Hill.
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Anchor Alley
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 68 to Three Cranes, on the west side of Vintners' Hall (P.O....
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Blue Anchor Court
In Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Blue Anchor Inn
On the south-west side of Duck Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, at the Corner of Little Britain (O....
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Great Tower Hill
See Tower Hill.
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Little Tower Hill
North-east and east of the Tower, extending south from the Minories to Little Thames Street (Stow's ...
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Tower Hill Passage
On Little Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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tower hill play
A slap on the face, and a kick on the breech.
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Blue Anchor Alley, Rosemary Lane
See Crown and Shears Place and Red Gate Court.
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Bell Alley, Little Tower Hill
North out of Little Tower Hill, east from the Minories (O. and M. 1677).
Earliest mention: "The Bel...
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Hatchet Alley, Little Tower Hill
North-west out of Little Tower Hill (P.C. 1732-London Guide, 1758).
Former name : "Hand and Hatchet...
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Tower
·vt To soar into.
II. Tower ·noun High flight; elevation.
III. Tower ·noun A citadel; a fortress; ...
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tower
Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT.
...
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Tower
Watch-towers or fortified posts in frontier or exposed situations are mentioned in Scripture, as the...
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Anchor
·noun An emblem of hope.
II. Anchor ·noun An <<Anchoret>>.
III. Anchor ·vi To <<Stop>>; to fix or ...
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Anchor
From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were ...
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The Anchor
A house so called near Aldermanbury given to the parish of St. Olave Jewry (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii...
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anchor
Bring your a-se to an anchor, i.e. sit down. To let go an anchor to the windward of the law; to keep...
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anchor
of a buckle, the chape. Glou.
...
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anchor
A large and heavy instrument in use from the earliest times for holding and retaining ships, which i...
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Blue
·noun A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
II. Blue ·pl Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy....
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Blue
Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtaine...
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blue
To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure....
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blue
1) Gloomy, severe; extreme, ultra.
In the former sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterian...
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blue
♦ Till all's blue: carried to the utmost a phrase borrowed from the idea of a vessel making out of p...
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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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Hill
·vt To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
II. Hill ·noun ...
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Hill
1) Heb. gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Ps. 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, ...
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hill
to cover ; a bed-hilling, a quilt or coverlet. N.
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hill
In use with the Anglo-Saxons. An insulated rise of the ground, usually applied to heights below 1000...
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Gun Yard, Little Tower Hill, East
East out of Little Tower Hill. In St. Katherine's precinct (O. and M. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Also...
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Gun Yard, Little Tower Hill, North
North out of Little Tower Hill (O. and M. 1677).
Site has been rebuilt.
...
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Hand and Hatchet Alley, Tower Hill
See Hatchet Alley.
...
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George Street, Tower Hill
West from Little Tower Hill to Great Tower Hill (O.S. 1894).
First mention: Horwood, 1799.
Formerl...
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King Street, Tower Hill
North out of Tower Hill to Royal Mint Street (P.O. Directory).
Earliest mention (Hatton, 1708).
No...
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Rose Court, Tower Hill
West out of Tower Hill, south of Muscovy Court (Strype, ed. 1720 and 1755).
Seems to have been rebu...
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(Holy) Trinity near Tower Hill
See Holy Trinity, Priory of.
...
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Blackhorse Alley, Yard
Leading out of Bartholomew Close, on the east side of West Smithfield (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831).
T...
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Clun's Alley, Yard
East out of Grub Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
Leading into Har...
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Hamond's Alley, Yard
West out of Bishopsgate Street in Bishopsgate Ward Within (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108).
First men...
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Wheeler's Alley, Yard
See Red Cross Court2, Minories.
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Carpenter's Yard, Tower Street
See Carpenters' Hall Yard.
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Blue Boar Stable Yard
West out of Little Moorfields. In Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now covered ...
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Church Hill Alley, St. Andrew's Hill
See Church Hill.
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Brook Yard, Lambeth Hill
North out of Upper Thames Street at No. 218 (P.O Directory) to St. Mary Somerset Church. In Queenhit...
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Goat Yard, Ludgate Hill
See Goat Alley.
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Chitterling Alley, Tower Street
See Rose Court.
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Anchor and Hart Alley
North out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of Portsoken Ward and within the ward. "...
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Blue Boar Head Alley, Court
North out of Barbican, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799). "Blew Bore's Head Cou...
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Cock Alley, Ludgate Hill
See Cock Court.
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Feathers Alley, Holborn Hill
See Feathers Court.
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Yard
·vi A branch; a twig.
II. Yard ·vi A rod; a stick; a staff.
III. Yard ·vi The <<Penis>>.
IV. Yard...
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yard
A measure of length, consisting of 3 feet.
[Anglo-Saxon gyrde]. A long cylindrical timber suspende...
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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...
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Conning tower
·noun The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
...
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Martello tower
·- A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the sum...
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Water tower
·add. ·- A tower or standpipe used as a reservoir to deliver water at a required head, as to a fount...
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Le Bretask, Tower
There seem to have been at least two houses bearing this name in the City in the 14th century.
One ...
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Lollards' Tower
At either corner of the west end of St. Paul's were two Towers of stone, made for Bell Towers, one t...
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Romeland, Tower
The whole ditch and plain without the Tower within the Postern,. called Romeland; in and of the City...
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Sernes Tower
On the north side of Bucklersbury, in Cheap Ward (S. 262).
Originally the house of William Servat i...
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Tower Bank
On the eastern boundary of Tower Ward running north and south between Thames Street and Tower Street...
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Tower Bridge
Over the Thames, from the eastern boundary of the Tower to Southwark, parish of St. John Horseleydow...
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Tower Buildings
See Tower Chambers.
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Tower Chambers
On the north side of London Wall at No. 118, at the south-east corner of Finshury Pavement, facing o...
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Tower Ditch
Made by the Bishop of Ely while King Richard was in Palestine (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 9).
Land pu...
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Tower Dock
On Tower Hill, south from No.50 Great Tower Street to 46 Lower Thames Street (P.O. Directory).
Earl...
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Tower Liberty
Tower and fortifications with Tower Hill of the ancient demesne of the Crown with jurisdiction and p...
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Tower Postern
North of the Tower, by George Yard, between that yard and the Tower Ditch, at the southern terminati...
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Tower Royal
North out of Cannon Street, at No.75, to Budge Row (P.O. Directory). In Cordwainer Ward.
It formerl...
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Tower Street
West from Tower Hill to Eastcheap and St. Margaret Pattens Church (S. 132).
First mention: " La Tou...
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Tower Subway
A circular iron tube under the Thames extending from Great Tower Hill on the north bank to Pickle He...
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Tower Ward
One of the twety-sex wards of the City (O.S. ).
With Aldgate Ward the most eastern within the walls...
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Tower Wharf
South out of and fronting the Tower, from Tower Stairs west to Tower Bridge east. Entrance on the so...
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Westsmithfield Tower
A tower so called in the Tower of London, 1461 (Cal. P.R. Ed. IV. 1461-7, p. 85).
...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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martello tower
So named from a tower in the Bay of Mortella, in Corsica, which, in 1794, maintained a very determin...
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shield tower or turret
A revolving armoured cover for guns.
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Coach Yard, Northumberland Alley
See Carlisle Avenue.
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Harp Court, Alley, Yard
In Black Horse Alley, Fleet Street, at its northern end, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Elmes...
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Stable Yard, Hand Alley
South out of Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Demolished towards the end of ...
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Anchor escapement
·add. ·- The common recoil escapement.
II. Anchor escapement ·add. ·- A variety of the lever escape...
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Anchor light
·add. ·- The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require v...
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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Anchor space
·add. ·- In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3/, lying along a cushion and bisec...
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Anchor watch
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.
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Anchor-hold
·noun Hence: Firm hold: security.
II. Anchor-hold ·noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to w...
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Sea anchor
·- ·see Drag sail, under 4th Drag.
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Sheet anchor
·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
II. Sheet...
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Anchor Inn
On the west side of Duck Lane, in Aldersgate Ward (Rocque, 1746-L. Guide, 1758).
The site is now oc...
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Anchor Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street at No.9 to the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward, between Crown and Ho...
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anchor-ball
A pyrotechnical combustible attached to a grapnel for adhering to and setting fire to ships.
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anchor-chocks
Pieces indented into a wooden anchor-stock where it has become worn or defective in the way of the s...
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anchor-davit
See davit.
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anchor-hold
The fastness of the flukes on the ground; also the act of having cast anchor, and taken the ground. ...
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anchor-hoops
Strong iron hoops, binding the stock to the end of the shank and over the nuts of the anchor.
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anchor-ice
The ice which is formed on and incrustates the beds of lakes and rivers: the ground-gru of the easte...
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anchor-lining
The short pieces of plank fastened to the sides of the ship, under the fore-channels, to prevent the...
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anchor-ring
Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...
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anchor-seat
An old term for the prow of a ship, still in use with eastern nations Chinese, Japanese, &c.
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anchor-shackle
An open link of iron which connects the chain with the anchor
a "Jew's-harp" shackle.
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anchor-smith
A forger of anchors.
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anchor-stock
A bar at the upper end of the shank, crossing the direction of the flukes transversely, to steady th...
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anchor-stocking
is a mode of securing and working planks in general with tapered butts.
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anchor-watch
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...
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at anchor
The situation of a vessel riding in a road or port by her anchor.
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floating anchor
A simple machine consisting of a fourfold canvas, stretched by two cross-bars of iron, rivetted in t...
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flood-anchor
That which the ship rides by during the flood-tide.
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foul anchor
An anchor is said to be foul, or fouled, either when it hooks some impediment under water, or when t...
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ice-anchor
A bar of round iron tapered to a point, and bent as a pot-hook; a hole is cut in the ice, the point ...
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lee-anchor
The leeward one, if under weigh; or that to leeward to which a ship, when moored, is riding.
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pilot's-anchor
A kedge used for dropping a vessel in a stream or tide-way.
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rodgers' anchor
The excellent small-palmed, very strong and good-holding anchor. It is the result of many years' stu...
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sea-anchor
That which lies towards the offing when a ship is moored.
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sheet-anchor
One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...
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shore-anchor
That which lies between the shore and the ship when moored.
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single anchor
A ship unmoored, having hove up one bower, rides by the other.
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spare anchor
An additional anchor the size of a bower.
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stream-anchor
A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moo...
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up anchor
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station.
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waist-anchor
An additional or spare anchor stowed before the chess-tree. (See spare anchor.)
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weather-anchor
That lying to windward, by which a ship rides when moored.
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Blue bonnet
·noun ·Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
...
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
II. Blue book ·- A parliamentary publication, s...
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Blue grass
·- A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire...
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Blue jay
·- The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is ...
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Blue-bonnet
·noun A plant. ·same·as <<Bluebottle>>.
II. Blue-bonnet ·noun The European blue titmouse (Parus coe...
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
...
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Blue-eyed
·adj Having blue eyes.
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Blue-john
·noun A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
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Blue-skylaw
·add. ·- A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in orde...
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Blue-veined
·adj Having blue veins or blue streaks.
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Navy blue
·add. ·- Prussian blue.
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Sanders-blue
·noun ·see Saunders-blue.
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Saunders-blue
·noun A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from c...
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Sevres blue
·- A very light blue.
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Sky-blue
·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
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Smalt-blue
·adj Deep blue, like smalt.
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True-blue
·noun A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
II. True-blue ·adj Of inflexible honesty and fi...
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Turnbull's blue
·- The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery l...
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Blue Bell
In Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
"Blew Bell," in Cheapsyde me...
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The Blue Boar
On the east side of Fish Street Hill, adjoining King's Head Court.
It was so called before the Fire...
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Blue Gates
1) West out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now occu...
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blue boar
A venereal bubo.
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blue devils
Low spirits.
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
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blue pigeons
Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses...
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blue plumb
A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumb...
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blue skin
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...
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blue tape, or sky blue
Gin.
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blue ruin
Gin. Blue ribband; gin.
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blue-bush
n.
an Australian forage plant,a kind of Salt-bush, Kochia pyrainidata, Benth, N.O. Chenopodiaceae.
...
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blue-cod
n.
name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...
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blue-creeper
n.
name given to the creeper, Comesperma volubile, Lab., N.O. Campanulaceae.
...
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
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blue-fish
n.
name given in Sydney to Girella cyanea, of the family Sparidae, orSea-Breams. It is different fr...
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blue-groper
n.
a fish of New South Wales and Tasmania, Cossyphus gouldii, one of the Labridaeor Wrasses, often ...
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blue-gum
n.
See under gum. It is anincreasing practice to make a single word of this compound, andto pronoun...
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
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blue lobelia
n.
The indigenous species inTasmania which receives this name is Lobelia gibbosa,Lab., N.O. Campanu...
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blue-pointer
n.
a name given in New South Wales to a species of Shark, Lamna glauca, Mull. and Heule, family Lam...
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blue-wing
n.
a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.).
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blue-berry
(Vacinium tenellum.) A fruit resembling the whortleberry in appearance and taste.
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blue-book
A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the Government of the Un...
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blue-nose
The slang name for a native of Nova Scotia.
"Pray, sir," said one of my fellow passengers, "can you...
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blue-skins
A nickname applied to the Presbyterians, from their alleged grave deportment.
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blue devils
To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
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blue laws
"Where, and how, the story of the New Haven Blue Laws originated, is a matter of some curiosity. Acc...
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blue stocking
1) The American avoset (recurvirostra Americana). A common bird in the Northern States.--Nat. Hist. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-jackets
The seamen as distinguished from the marines.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blue light
A pyrotechnical preparation for signals by night. Also called Bengal light.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blue-lightism
Affected sanctimoniousness.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blue moon
An indefinite period.
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blue-nose
A general term for a native of Nova Scotia.
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blue peter
The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blue pigeon
A nickname for the sounding lead.
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blue water
The open ocean.
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true-blue
A metaphorical term for an honest and hearty sailor: "true to his uniform, and uniformly true."
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bell Yard, Fish Street Hill
West out of Fish Street Hill at No.13, north of Crooked Lane, and opposite the Monument. In Bridge W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ant-hill
·noun A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Moot-hill
·noun A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or cou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Mute-hill
·noun ·see Moot-hill.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dung-hill
To sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection (1 Sam. 2:8; Ps. 113:7; Lam. 4:5).
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Mars Hill
The Areopagus or rocky hill in Athens, north-west of the Acropolis, where the Athenian supreme tribu...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Hill, Aaron
(1685-1750)
Dramatist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, was ed. at ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Addle Hill
South out of Carter Lane at No. 51 to Knightrider Street in Castle Baynard Ward (P.O. Directory).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Adling Hill
See Addle Hill.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Andrew's Hill
South out of Carter Lane at No.59 to 148 Queen Victoria Street (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Benet's Hill
See Bennet's Hill.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bennet's Hill
North out of Upper Thames Street at No. 225 to Queen Victoria Street (P.O. Directory). In Castle Bay...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Church Hill
East out of St. Andrews Hill by the Church to Knightrider Street. In Castle Baynard Ward (Elmes, 183...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.