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Hither
·adj Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
II. Hither ·adv To ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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hither and yon
This expression is often used in the country towns of New England for here and there. It is never he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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You
(dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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you don't!
for you don't say so; really! indeed! as, 'Mr. A threw a back somerset out of a three-story window. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bord you
A saying of a man waiting, to one who is drinking, meaning that he claims the next turn.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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you, sir!
The irritating mode in which some officers address the seamen. The late Lord Collingwood never permi...
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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how fare you?
This is a common expression in those parts of New England for 'How do you do?.' It is pronounced sho...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wea-worth you
woe betide you. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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thank god thank you
a reply after grace is said after dinner, and addressed to the host. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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thank you for them
an answer to an enquiry after absent friends. North. They are very well, I thank you for them.
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do you hear there?
An inquiry following an order, but very often needlessly.
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what water have you?
The question to the man sounding, as to the depth of water which the lead-line gives.
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
As prayer is a duty of daily occurrence, the injunctio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
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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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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
I ...
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
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hammer and tongs
In a noisy, furious manner. Thus, 'They went at it hammer and tongs,' is said of persons quarrelling...
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hand and glove
Intimate, familiar; i. e. as closely united as a hand and its glove. 'They are hand and glove togeth...
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hums and hahs
A familiar expression applied to one who hesitates in speaking. 'None of your hums and hahs!' that i...
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
You see I should have bore down on Sol Gills yesterday, but she to...
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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sixes and sevens
'To be at sixes and sevens,' is to be in a state of disorder and confusion. A ludicrous expression t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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spack and applejees
(Dutch.) Pork and apples, cooked together. An ancient Dutch dish made in New York.
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tarring and feathering
A punishment sometimes inflicted by indignantly virtuous mobs in Southern and Western States, on per...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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ways and means
The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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whig and tory
Names of political parties. The history of the origin of these names is thus given by Cooke: "Accord...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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whigs and democrats
It is very difficult to give a precise, accurate, and satisfactory definition of the principles dist...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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boke and bane
lusty and strong. N. and Y.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cockers and trashes
old stockings without feet, and worn-out shoes. N.
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counterfeits and trinkets
porringers and saucers. Chesh.
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cricks and howds
pains and strains. N.
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fending and proving
disputing, arguing pro and con. C.
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grin and abide
to endure patiently. You must grin and abide it. North.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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bag and baggage
The whole movable property.
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ball-and-socket
A clever adaptation to give astronomical or surveying instruments full play and motion every way by ...
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bat and forage
A regulated allowance in money and forage to officers in the field.
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berth and space
In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...
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block and block
The situation of a tackle when the blocks are drawn close together, so that the mechanical power bec...
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board and board
Alongside, as when two ships touch each other.
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bilge and chimb
See bouge and chine
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bowge and chine
See bouge and chine
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bouge or bowge and chine
, or bilge and chimb
The end of one cask stowed against the bilge of another. To prepare a ship fo...
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butt-and-butt
A term denoting that the butt ends of two planks come together, but do not overlay each other. (See ...
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by and large
To the wind and off it; within six points.
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castor and pollux
Fiery balls which appear at the mast-heads, yard-arms, or sticking to the rigging of vessels in a ga...
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chine and chine
Casks stowed end to end.
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costs and damage
Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants p...
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore.
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heave and paul
Is the order to turn the capstan or windlass till the paul may be put in, by which it is prevented f...
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heave and rally!
An encouraging order to the men at the capstan to heave with spirit, with a rush, and thereby force ...
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heave and set
The ship's motion in rising and falling to the waves when at anchor.
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heaving and setting
Riding hard, pitching and sending.
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hernshaw and herne
Old words for the heron.
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heys-and-how
An ancient sea-cheer.
HI! Often used for hoy; as, "Hi, you there!" Also, the old term for they, as...
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high-and-dry
The situation of a ship or other vessel which is aground, so as to be seen dry upon the strand when ...
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hollows and rounds
Plane-tools used for making mouldings.
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hook and butt
The scarphing or laying two ends of planks over each other. (See butt-and-butt and hook-scarph.)
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ilde, and ile
Archaic terms for island.
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in and out
A term sometimes used for the scantling of timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bol...
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lash and carry
The order given by the boatswain and his mates on piping up the hammocks, to accelerate the duty.
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legs and wings
See over-masted.
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list and receipt
The official document sent with officers or men of any description, discharged from one ship to anot...
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lop and top
The top and branches of a felled tree.
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low and aloft
Sail from deck to truck: "every stitch on her."
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luff and lie
A very old sea-term for hugging the wind closely.
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marks and deeps
Marks are the measured notifications on the hand lead-line, with white, blue, and red bunting, leath...
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master and commander
A title which, in 1814, was simplified to commander, the next degree above lieutenant; he ranks with...
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net and coble
The means by which sasses or flood-gates are allowed in fishings on navigable rivers.
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off and on
When a ship beating to windward approaches the shore by one board, and recedes from it when on the o...
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one-and-all
A mutinous sea-cry used in the Dutch wars. Also, a rallying call to put the whole collective force o...
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out-and-outer
An old phrase signifying thorough excellence; a man up to his duty, and able to perform it in style....
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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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rank and file
This word includes corporals as well as privates, all below sergeants. (See file.)
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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tarring and feathering
A punishment now obsolete, inflicted by stripping the delinquent, then smearing him with tar, coveri...
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timber and room
, is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...
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touch-and-go
Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...
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touch-and-take
An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim.
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up and down
The situation of the cable when it has been hove in sufficiently to bring the ship directly over the...
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visitation and search
The law of nations gives to every belligerent cruiser the right of visitation and search of all merc...
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watch and watch
The arrangement of the crew in two watches.
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wear and tear
The decay and deterioration of the hull, spars, sails, ropes, and other stores of a ship in the cour...
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wheel and axle
A well-known mechanical power, to which belong all turning or wheel machines, as cranes, capstans, w...
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wing-and-wing
A ship coming before the wind with studding-sails on both sides; also said of fore-and-aft vessels, ...
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wood and wood
When two pieces of timber are so let into each other as to join close. Also, when a tree-nail is dri...
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Aholah And Aholibah
(my tabernacle) two symbolical names, are described as harlots, the former representing Samaria and ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Castor And Pollux
(Acts 28:11) the twin sons of Jupiter and Leda, were regarded as the tutelary divinities of sailors;...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Geshuri And Geshurites
The inhabitants of Geshur. (3:14; Joshua 12:5; 13:11)•
• An ancient tribe which dwelt in the desert...
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Urim And Thummim
(light and perfection). When the Jewish exiles were met on their return from Babylon by a question w...
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Weights And Measures
A. WEIGHTS.
The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments t...
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any how you can fix it
At any rate whatever.
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Shepheard and Dog Alley, Shepherd and Dog Alley
See Red Lyon Yard, Houndsditch.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Coast and Geodetic Survey
·add. ·- A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic surv...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hire and purchase agreement
·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Brougham and Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
(1778-1868)
S. of Henry B. of Brougham Hall, Westmoreland, b. in Edin., and ed. at the High School ...
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Fletcher, Giles and Phineas
(1588?-1623) (1582-1650)
Poets, were the sons of Giles F., himself a minor poet, and Envoy to Russi...
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Adam and Eve Alley
See Adam and Eve Court, West Smithfield.
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Adam and Eve Court
1) North out of Angel Alley, Bishopsgate Street Without, near Skinner Street (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 18...
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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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(The) Angel and Three Crowns
-In St. Paul's Churchyard, 1673 (L. and P. Chas. II. XIV.).
No later reference.
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(St.) Anne and St. Agnes
On the north side of Gresham Street at No.7 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Within.
First ment...
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Armourers and Braziers' Company
Incorporated as the Armourers' Co. about 1453. The Braziers joined the Company afterwards, in 1708 (...
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Armourers and Braziers' Hall
On the east side of Coleman Street at No. 81, at its junction with London Wall (P.O. Directory). In ...
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Ball and Shears Court
South-west out of Houndsditch (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). In Portsoken Ward.
Site now occupied b...
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The Bear and Ragged Staff
A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...
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Bell and Star Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street, two doors from Earl Street, Blackfriars (Lockie, 1816).
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Bell and Wheel Alley
West out of the Minories (O. and M. 1677), near the middle. In Portsoken Ward.
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Bell and Wheel Yard
West out of the Minories (O. and M. 1677), near the middle. In Portsoken Ward.
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Black and White Alley
East out of Tower Hill, near Woodruff Lane (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Within the Tower precincts.
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Black and White Court
South out of Fleet Lane to Belle Savage Inn and the Old Bailey (Leake, 1666-Elmes, 1831).
Strype de...
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Black Boy and Camel
On the south side of Leadenhall Street, at No.8 (Lockie, 1810 and 1816).
Coach office for Essex.
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Bull and Mouth Inn
On the south side of Bull and Mouth Street, in Aldersgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Burnt ...
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Bull and Mouth Street
West out of St. Martin le Grand to King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within and Aldersgate Ward...
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Cain and Abel's Alley
1) Out of Angel Alley, Houndsditch (Strype, 1755-Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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Castle and Falcon Hotel
On the east side of Aldersgate Street, next to London Wall (O.S. 1894). In Aldersgate Ward Without.
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
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Fruyterers and Watermen's Hall
In Leake, south of Clarkes Hall, in Brode Lane.
Stow says it occupied part of the site of Worcester...
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