the frame of wood to which the door hangs, the door-posts. N.
·adj Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside,...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
I. , or cheek-knees Pieces of compass-timber on the ship's bows, for the security of the beak-he...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An inferior oak of more rapid growth than the true English. ...
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se. ...
Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale. ...
A name given by old sailors to the sheaves instead of blocks on the yards in light-rigged vessels. ...
The interior faces or sides of an embrasure. ...
The faces or projecting parts on each side of the masts, formed to sustain the trestle-trees upon wh...