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• Clap

  ·noun Noisy talk; chatter. II. Clap ·vi To knock, as at a door. III. Clap ·noun <<Gonorrhea>>. IV...

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• clap

  A venereal taint. He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home; i.e. he went out a wenching...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to clap

  To set down; charge to one's account. If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Down

  ·adj Downcast; as, a down look. II. Down ·adv From a remoter or higher antiquity. III. Down ·vt To...

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• down

  Aware of a thing. Knowing it. There is NO DOWN. A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that...

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• down

  I. n. a prejudice against, hostility to;a peculiarly Australian noun made out of the adverb. 1856...

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• after-clap

  A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...

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• clap-trap

  An artifice for attracting applause. Used chiefly in theatrical or political language. The managers...

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• clap-bread

  thin hard oat-cakes. Lane. ...

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• after-clap

  Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...

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• clap-board

  [German, klapp-bord]. An east-country commercial plank, which ought to be upwards of 13 feet in le...

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• clap-match

  A sort of seal, distinct from the fur-seal. ...

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• clap on!

  The order to lay hold of any rope, in order to haul upon it. Also, to "Clap on the stoppers before...

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• clap-sill

  The lockage of a flood-gate. ...

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• down wind, down sea

  A proverbial expression among seamen between the tropics, where the sea is soon raised by the wind, ...

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• Down-share

  ·noun A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. ...

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• Down-wind

  ·add. ·adv With the wind. ...

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• Lock-down

  ·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; — used by lumbermen. ...

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• Steep-down

  ·adj Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. ...

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• Step-down

  ·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressu...

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• Swan's-down

  ·noun ·Alt. of Swans-down. ...

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• Swans-down

  ·noun The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress. II. Swans-d...

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• Tumble-down

  ·adj Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. ...

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• down hills

  Dice that run low. ...

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• to drop down

  To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die gam...

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• boil down

  v. to reduce a statement to itssimplest form; a constant term amongst pressmen. Over thereporters' ...

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• knock-down

  v. generally of a cheque. To spendriotously, usually in drink. 1869. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic P...

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• lamb down

  v. tr. 1) To knock down a cheque or a sum of money in a spree.There is an old English verb, of Scan...

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• mulga-down

  n. hills covered with Mulga. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvii. p. 201: «Fascin...

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• take (a man) down

  Australian sporting slang. 1) Toinduce a man to bet, knowing that he must lose. 2) To advisea man ...

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• to knock down

  A word used at auctions. 'This article is knocked down to you, sir;' meaning, that you are the purch...

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• down upon

  To be down upon, is to seize with avidity, as a bird of prey would pounce down upon its victim. Allu...

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• slipper-down

  A vulgar name in some parts of Connecticut for hasty pudding. The etymology is obvious. ...

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• down-lying

  just going to be brought to bed. N. ...

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• blacking down

  The tarring and blacking of rigging; or the operation of blacking the ship's sides with tar or miner...

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• bore down

  Sailed down from to windward. ...

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• cutting down

  Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...

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• down along

  Sailing coastways down Channel. ...

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• down east

  Far away in that bearing. This term, as down west, &c., is an Americanism, recently adopted into our...

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• down-haul

  A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to t...

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• down killock!

  Let go the grapnel; the corruption of keel-hook or anchor. ...

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• down oars!

  The order on shoving off a boat when the men have had them "tossed up." ...

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• go down

  The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies. ...

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• heaving down

  (See careening.) The bringing one of a ship's sides down into the water, by means of purchases on th...

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• hove down

  , properly hove out or careened. The situation of a ship when heeled or placed thus for repairs. ♦...

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• hull-down

  Is said of a ship when at such a distance that, from the convexity of the globe, only her masts and ...

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• laying down

  , or laying off. The act of delineating the various lines of a ship to the full size on the mould-...

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• pipe down!

  The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. ...

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• riding-down

  The act of the men who throw their weight on the head of a sail to stretch it. Also, of the man who ...

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• strike down!

  The order to lower casks, &c., into the hold. ...

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• union down

  When a ship hoists her ensign upside down it is a signal of distress or of mourning. ...

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• knock me down

  Strong ale or beer, stingo. ...

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• cutting-down line

  An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...

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• down all chests!

  The order to get all the officers' and seamen's chests down below from off the gun-decks when cleari...

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• down all hammocks!

  The order for all the sailors to carry their hammocks down, and hang them up in their respective ber...

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• down-haul tackles

  Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...

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• edge down, to

  To approach any object in an oblique direction. ...

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• fall down, to

  To sail, drift, or be towed to some lower part nearer a river's mouth or opening. ...

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• hauling down vacancy

  The colloquialism expressive of the promotion of a flag-lieutenant and midshipman on an admiral's ha...

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• jaw-me-down

  An arrogant, overbearing, and unsound loud arguer. ...

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• out or down

  An exclamation of the boatswain, &c., in ordering men out of their hammocks, i.e. turn out, or your ...

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• peak down-haul

  A rope rove through a block at the outer end of the gaff to haul it down by. ...

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• running-down clause

  A special admission into policies of marine insurance, to include the risk of loss or damage in cons...

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• ship cut down

  One which has had a deck cut off from her, whereby a three-decker is converted into a two-decker, an...

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• try down, to

  To boil out the oil from blubber at sea in whalers. ...

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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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• clap on the shoulder

  An arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder-clapper. ...

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• down in the mouth

  Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary. ...

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• down in the mouth

  Low-spirited or disheartened. ...

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• down with the helm!

  An order to put the helm a-lee. ...

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• drop down a river

  Synonymous with falling (which see). ...

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• rattle down rigging, to

  or, to rattle the shrouds. To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...

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• right up and down

  Said in a dead calm, when the wind is no way at all. Or, in anchor work, when the cable is in that c...

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• running-down the port

  A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...

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• up-and-down tackle

  A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...

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• pissing down any one's back

  Flattering him. ...

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• rolling down to st. helena

  Running with a flowing sheet by the trade-wind. ...

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• run down a coast, to

  To sail along it, keeping parallel to or skirting its dangers. ...

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• run down a vessel, to

  To pass over, into, or foul her by running against her end-on, so as to jeopardize her. ...

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