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Sill
·noun A young herring.
II. Sill ·noun The shaft or thill of a carriage.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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sill (of a door)
threshold, called also groundsill, in divers counties.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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sill
A northern term for the young of a herring.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ground
·noun The pit of a theater.
II. Ground ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Grind.
III. Ground ·vt To lay, set, or r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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clap-sill
The lockage of a flood-gate.
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foke-sill
Among old salts may be termed a curt or nicked form of forecastle.
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Burying ground
·- ·Alt. of Burying place.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Middle-ground
·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Teeing ground
·add. ·- The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.
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Winter-ground
·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Fallow-ground
The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed am...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Parched ground
(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Artillery Ground
See Old Artillery Ground.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ground Rentes
Tenements so called in High Holborn 1564 (Lond. I. p.m. II 142, 96).
Not further identified.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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ground sweat
A grave.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ground squirrel
A hog, or pig.
SEA TERM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ground-berry
i.q. cranberry (q.v.).:
See cranberry, native
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-bird
n.
name given in Australia to anybird of the genus Cinclosoma. The species are – – Chestnut-backed ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-dove
n.
1) Tasmanian namefor the Spotted Ground-bird (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-lark
n.
1) In New Zealand, a bird alsocalled by the Maori names, Pihoihoi and Hioi.
1888. W. L. Buller,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-parrakeet
n.
See parrakeet and pezoporus.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-parrot
n.
1) The bird Psittacuspulchellus, Shaw. For the Ground Parrot of New Zealand,see Kakapo.
1793. G...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-thrush
n.
name of birds found all overthe world. The Australian species are – – Geocincla lunulata, Lath.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hover ground
light ground. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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vantage-ground
See advantage
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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break-ground
Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom. On shore it means to begin the works for ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fishing-ground
Any bank or shoal frequented by fish.
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foul ground
Synonymous with foul bottom.
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ground, to
To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident.
♦ To stri...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ground-bait
, or groundling.
A loach or loche.
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ground-gru
See anchor-ice.
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ground-gudgeon
A little fish, the Cobitis barbatula.
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ground-ice
See anchor-ice.
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ground-plot
See ichnography.
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ground-sea
The West Indian name for the swell called rollers, or in Jamaica the north sea. It occurs in a calm,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ground-strake
A name sometimes used for garboard-strake.
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ground-swell
A sudden swell preceding a gale, which rises along shore, often in fine weather, and when the sea be...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ground-tackle
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ground-tier
The lowest water-casks in the hold before the introduction of iron tanks. It also implies anything e...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ground-timbers
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson.
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ground-ways
The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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losing ground
Dropping to leeward while working; the driftage.
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Bethlem Burying Ground
On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New Broad Street, on the western boundary of Bisho...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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New Artillery Ground
In Moorfields. So named to distinguish it from the Old Ground near St. Mary Spittel, where formerly ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Artillery Ground
Extends from Middlesex Street south to Spital Square north, east of Bishopsgate Street, outside the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Sepulchre's Burying Ground
On the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without, north of Smithfield Market, east of Durham Yard...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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go-by-ground
a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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sill of a dock
The timber at the base against which the gates shut; and the depth of water which will float a vesse...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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go by the ground
A little short person, man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose