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Gun Yard, Houndsditch
See Gun Square, Houndsditch.
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Houndsditch
West from Nos. 4 and 5 Aldgate High Street to No. 126 Bishopsgate (P.O. Directory). In Portsoken War...
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Gun
·noun Violent blasts of wind.
II. Gun ·- of <<Gin>>.
III. Gun ·noun A piece of heavy ordnance; in ...
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gun
He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in th...
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gun
a flaggon for ale. N.
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gun
The usual service name for a cannon (which see); it was originally called great gun, to distinguish ...
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Square
·noun A pane of glass.
II. Square ·noun Hence, a pattern or rule.
III. Square ·noun A square piece...
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square
Honest, not roguish. A square cove, i.e. a man who does not steal, or get his living by dishonest me...
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square
I.
An instrument formed by a stock and a tongue fixed at right angles. Also, in the army, a format...
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The Scorner, Houndsditch
See Skimmer's Alley.
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Gatling gun
·- An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are...
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Hotchkiss gun
·add. ·- A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock ...
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Krupp gun
·- A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. ...
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Maxim gun
·add. ·- A kind of machine gun;
— named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.
...
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Vickers' gun
·add. ·- One of a system of guns manufactured by the firm of Vickers' Sons, at Sheffield, ·Eng. now ...
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Whitworth gun
·- A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.
...
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Wire gun
·add. ·- = Wire-wound gun.
...
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Gun Alley
1) West out of Moorfields, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
In Rocque, 174...
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Gun Yard
1) Out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
2) West out...
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
...
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armstrong gun
Invented by Sir William Armstrong. In its most familiar form, a rifled breech-loading gun of wrought...
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cotton, gun
See gun-cotton.
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cutty-gun
A northern term for a short pipe.
...
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dahlgren gun
A modification of the Paixhan gun, introduced into the United States service by Lieut., now Admiral,...
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evening gun
The warning-piece, after the firing of which the sentries challenge.
...
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field-gun
See field-artillery.
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gally-gun
A kind of culverin.
...
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great gun
The general sea-term for cannons, or officers of great repute.
...
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gun-chambers
In early artillery, a movable chamber with a handle, like a paterero, used in loading at the breech....
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gun-cotton
An explosive compound, having some advantages over gunpowder, but so irregular hitherto in its actio...
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gun-fire
The morning or evening guns, familiarly termed "the admiral falling down the hatchway."
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gun-gear
Everything pertaining to its handling.
...
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gun-harpoon
See harpoon.
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gun-ladle
See ladle, for a gun.
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gun-lod
A vessel filled with combustibles, but rather for explosion than as a fire-ship.
...
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gun-metal
The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...
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gun-pendulum
See ballistic pendulum.
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gun-room
A compartment on the after-end of the lower gun-deck of large ships of war, partly occupied by the j...
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gun-searcher
An iron instrument with several sharp-pointed prongs and a wooden handle: it is used to find whether...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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gun-sight
See disparting a gun, or sights.
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gun-slings
Long rope grommets used for hoisting in and mounting them.
...
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gun-stones
An old term for cannon-balls, from stones having been first supplied to the ordnance and used for th...
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hand-gun
An old term for small arms in the times of Henry VII. and VIII.
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morning gun
The gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, to announce day-break, which is answered ...
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needle-gun
One wherein the ignition for the cartridge is produced by the penetration of the detonating priming ...
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paixhan gun
Introduced by the French General Paixhan about 1830, for the horizontal firing of heavy shells; havi...
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pivot-gun
Mounted on a frame carriage which can be turned radially, so as to point the piece in any direction....
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rodman gun
One cast on the excellent method of Captain Rodman, formerly of the United States Ordnance viz. on a...
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whitworth gun
A piece rifled by having a twisted hexagonal bore, and throwing a more elongated shot with a sharper...
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Square-rigged
·adj Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished fro...
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Square-toed
·noun Having the toe square.
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Square-toes
·noun A precise person;
— used contemptuously or jocularly.
...
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T square
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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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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Try-square
·noun An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, ·etc., for laying off right angles off right angles...
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America Square
On the south side of John Street, Minories. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Horw...
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Angel Square
South out of Angel Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1816).
" Angel Alley "...
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Bell Square
1) East out of St. Martin's le Grand to Foster Lane in Aldersgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1816)....
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Billiter Square
West out of Billiter Street at No. 11. In Aldgate Ward and Langbourn Ward (P.O. Directory).
Seems t...
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Bridgewater Square
At the north end of Bridgewater Street, Barbican, at No. 1, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.O. Direct...
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Car Square
West out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-O.S. 1848-51).
Former name : "Car...
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Cartwright Square
At the southern end of Cartwright Street, east of the Royal Mint (O.S. 25 in 1880 ed.).
Formerly kn...
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Cook's Square
East out of Long Alley. In Bishopsgate Ward Without, near the northern boundary of the ward (O.S. 18...
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Crosby Square
East out of Bishopsgate at No. 34 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within.
First mention: "Cro...
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Devonshire Square
At the east end of Devonshire Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention: ...
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Ebenezer Square
East out of Gravel Lane and extending south-east to Meeting House Court. In Portsoken Ward (Horwood,...
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Falcon Square
Between Falcon Street and Silver Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without and Farringdon Ward Within (P.O...
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Gold Square
See Gould Square.
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Gough Square
At the top of Wine Office Court, Fleet Street (P.O. Directory).
First mention: "Gough's Square" (P....
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Gould Square
East out of Cooper's Row. In Aldgate Ward (O.S. 25, in, 1880).
First mention: "Gould's Square" (P.C...
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Haberdashers' Square
West out of Milton Street between Nos. 3 and 4, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-L.C.C. Lis...
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Haydon Square
At No. 23 Haydon Street, on the north side.
In Minories precinct, now in the parish of St. Botolph,...
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Heydon Square
See Haydon Square.
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Honesty Square
West out of St. John's Court, Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Si...
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Honeysuckle Square
East out of Milton Street at No. 47, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
Formerly called ...
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Jeffrey's Square
East out of St. Mary Axe (O.S. 1894-6). In Aldgate Ward.
First mention: Strype, 1720.
At the time ...
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Ludgate Square
West out of Creed Lane at No. 7 (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.
First mention: O.S. 18...
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Marine Square
See Wellclose Square.
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May Square
On the west side of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O.S. 1875-80).
"Tyson Court" in...
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Mitre Square
North out of Mitre Street at No. 9 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
First mention: O.S. 1848-51.
...
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Monument Square
On the east side of Fish Street Hill, extending to Pudding Lane. In Billingsgate Ward and Bridge War...
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Moor Square
West out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799 - O.S. 1848-51).
Former names: " ...
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New Square
On the west side of the Minories at No.130, south of St. Botolph's Vestry Hall. In Portsoken Ward (P...
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Nicholl Square
Between Well Street and Castle Street, Aldersgate Street (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate and Alders...
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Nixon's Square
At the north end of Goldsmith's Alley and Bull Head Court, Jewin Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without...
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Paternoster Square
North out of Paternoster Row, at No.30, leading to Ivy Lane and Rose Street (P.O. Directory). In Cas...
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Petticoat Square
At the western end of Nightingale Place, west of Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-O...
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Printer's Square
See Printing House Square.
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Prujean Square
West out of Old Bailey at No. 61 (P.O. Directory).
First mention: " Prujean Court or Square" (Locki...
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Queen Square
West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 159a, to Bartholomew Close. In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon ...
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Queen's Square
See Queen's Colledge Passage Square.
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Salisbury Square
At the south end of Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.O. Directory).
First mention: 1689 (H. MSS. Co...
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Spital Square
East out of Bishopsgate at No. 310. In the liberty of Norton Folgate (P.O. Directory).
First mentio...
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Sun Square
North out of Sun Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831).
Not named in the m...
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Trinity Square
On the north side of Tower Hill (P.O. Directory).
Laid out in Horwood, 1799.
First mention: Lockie...
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Turner's Square
South out of Amelia Place (O.S. 1848-51 to O.S. 25 in. 1880). In Portsoken Ward.
Removed for the ex...
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Union Square
In the Minories (Strype, ed. 1755~Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Warwick Square
West out of Warwick Lane at No. 7 1/2 (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward and Farringdon Ward W...
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Wellclose Square
At Nos. 71 and 72 St. George Street, in the Borough of Stepney, outside the City boundary (P.O. Dire...
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square toes
An old man: square toed shoes were anciently worn in common, and long retained by old men.
...
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to square up
To put oneself in an attitude fit for boxing. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.
Y...
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cap-square
The clamp of iron which shuts over the trunnions of a gun to secure them to the carriage, having a c...
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hollow square
The square generally used by British infantry; a formation to resist cavalry. Each side is composed ...
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oblong square
A name improperly given to a parallelogram. (See three-square.)
...
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rallying square
That formed by skirmishers or dispersed troops when suddenly menaced by cavalry, each man as he runs...
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rising-square
In ship-carpentry, a square used in the whole moulding, upon which is marked the height of the risin...
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square-butted
The yard-arms of small shipping so made that a sheave-hole can be cut through without weakening the ...
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square-frames
In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no b...
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square-knot
The same as reef-knot.
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square ribbons
A synonym of horizontal lines, or horizontal ribbons.
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square-rigged
Ships having chiefly square sails; a term used in contradistinction to all vessels which do not use ...
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square-sail
The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop.
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square-sails
Colloquially applied to the courses; but the term may be used for any four-cornered sail extended to...
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square-sterned
Implies a stern where the wing-transom is at right angles with the stern-post. (See pink and round s...
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square timbers
Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel.
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square tuck
The after-part of a ship's bottom, when terminated in the same direction up and down as the wing-tra...
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square yards!
The order to attend to the lifts and braces, for going before the wind.
♦ To square a yard. In wor...
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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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Angel Alley, Houndsditch
North-east out of Houndsditch to Gravel Lane (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799). In Portsoken Ward.
Subsequ...
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Bates' Yard, Houndsditch
See Seven Step Alley.
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Carpenter's Yard, Houndsditch
See Hanover Court.
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Carter Street, Houndsditch
See Clothier Street.
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Castle Court, Houndsditch
See Goring Street.
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Castle Street, Houndsditch
See Goring Street.
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Castle Yard, Houndsditch
See Goring Street.
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Crown Alley, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Not shown in the later maps and ...
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Duke Street, Houndsditch
West out of Houndsditch, leading into St. James' Place, Aldgate (P.O. Directory).
Made towards the ...
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Gravel Lane, Houndsditch
East out of Houndsditch at 147, and north through Back Gravel Lane to Harrow Alley (P.O. Directory)....
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Hand Alley, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch, near the northern boundary of the ward. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed...
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Harrow Alley, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, eds. 1720 and 1755).
Former name : "Colem...
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Patrick's Court, Houndsditch
See Partridge Court.
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Skinner's Alley, Houndsditch
See Skimmer's Alley.
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Snuff Yard, Houndsditch
See Fleur de lis Court, Houndsditch.
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Star Court, Houndsditch
South out of Woolsack Alley. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, 1720-55).
Seems to be shown in O. and M. 16...
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White Street, Houndsditch
See Cutler Street.
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Hydropneumatic gun carriage
·add. ·- A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid a...
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Vickers-Maxim gun
·add. ·- One of a system of ordnance, including machine, quick-fire, coast, and field guns, of all c...
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Wire-wound gun
·add. ·- A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound wi...
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firing a gun
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
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disparting a gun
To bring the line of sight and line of metal to be parallel by setting up a mark on the muzzle-ring ...
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gun-tackle purchase
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
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nailing a gun
Synonymous with cloying or spiking. When necessary to abandon cannon, or when the enemy's artillery,...
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spiking a gun
Driving a large nail or iron spike into the vent, which will render the cannon unserviceable until r...
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Austin Friars Square
Out of Old Broad Street. In Broad Street Ward (L.C.C. List, 1912).
...
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Billiter Square Buildings
At No. 1 Billiter Square (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
First mention: L.C.C. List, 1912.
...
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Bridgewater Square Buildings
At the junction of Bridgewater Square and Hart's Court (L.C.C. List, 1912). In Cripplegate Ward With...
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Crosby Square Passage
Leading into Crosby Square (q.v.) (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Cross Key Square
North out of Little Britain at No. 8 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Without.
First mention: H...
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Lime Street Square
East out of Lime Street at No. 48, south of Leadenhall Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
Fi...
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London Bridge Square
On London Bridge, in Bridge Ward (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Lyme Street Square
See Lime Street Square.
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Mewse, Devonshire Square
At the south-east corner of Devonshire Square. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
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New Street Square
1) On the east side of Great New Street, Shoe Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
Fi...
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Printing House Square
At the east end of Printing House Lane, Water Lane, Blackfriars (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward...
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Red Cross Square
1) North out of Great Tower Street, between Mark Lane and Seething Lane (O.S. 25 in. 1880).
Earlies...
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Royal Mint Square
South out of Royal Mint Street, east of Cartwright Street (P.O. Directory).
First shown in O.S. 25 ...
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White Lion Square
North out of Old Bethlem at No.16 (Lockie, 1816-Elmes, 1831).
Not named in the maps.
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Wood Street Square
West out of Hart Street at No.3 at its junction with Monkwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (P.O...
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square main-sail
See main-sail.
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square-sail boom
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...
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square-topsail sloop
Sloops which carry standing yards.
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stand square, to
To stand or be at right angles relatively to some object.
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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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Friends' Meeting House, Houndsditch
On the north side of Houndsditch. In Bishopsgate Ward Without. In Sandwich Court (Rocque, 1746-O.S. ...
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Red Lyon Court, Houndsditch
See Red Lyon Yard.
"Red Lion Alley " (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Removed for the formation of Moorga...
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Red Lyon Yard, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Former names : " Red ...
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Seven Star Alley, Houndsditch
See Hanover Court.
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son of a gun
This phrase is heard in low language with us as in England.
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sure as a gun
Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett.
There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...
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carriage of a gun
The frame on which it is mounted for firing, constructed either exclusively for this purpose, or als...
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chase of a gun
That part of the conical external surface extending from the moulding in front of the trunnions to t...
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cleat a gun, to
To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...
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face of a gun
The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle.
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gun and head money
Given to the captors of an enemy's ship of war destroyed, or deserted, in fight. It was formerly ass...
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handles of a gun
The dolphins.
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head and gun-money
An encouragement in the prize acts by which £5 a head is given to the captors for every person on bo...
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ladle, for a gun
An instrument for charging with loose powder; formed of a cylindrical sheet of copper-tube fitted to...
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lay a gun, to
So to direct it as that its shot may be expected to strike a given object; for which purpose its axi...
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mouldings of a gun
The several rings and ornaments.
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mount a gun, to
To place it on its carriage.
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neck of a gun
The narrow part where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle.
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point a gun, to
To direct it on a given object.
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range of a gun
The horizontal distance which it will send a shot, at a stated elevation, to the point of its first ...
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son of a gun
An epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when w...
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(St.) Katherine's Square, East Smithfield
West out of St. Katherine's Court (Horwood, 1799).
Former name : "St. Katherine's Court" (Rocque, 1...
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Passage to ye Square
See Prince's Street2, Bridgewater Square.
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Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage
South out of Leadenhall Street and east to Lime Street. In Lime Street Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755)....
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Silver Street, Bridgewater Square
East out of Charles Street to Collier's Court, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-O.S. 1880)....
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square in the head
Very bluff and broad in the fore-body.
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Fleur de lis Court, Houndsditch
East out of Houndsditch at 110 (P.O. Directory). In Portsoken Ward.
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Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch
East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...
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Rose and Crown Court, Houndsditch
West out of Houndsditch, adjoining the old line of the Wall of London. 'In Portsoken Ward (O. and M....
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Vickers-Maxim automatic machine gun
·add. ·- An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pr...
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arms of a great gun
The trunnions.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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