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Hoe
·vi To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
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row, to
To propel a boat or vessel by oars or sweeps, which are managed in a direction nearly horizontal. (S...
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Hard
·adv Close or near.
II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties.
III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiousl...
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hard
Stale beer, nearly sour, is said to be hard. Hard also means severe: as, hard fate, a hard master.
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hard
A road-path made through mud for landing at. (See ard.)
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Row
·vi To use the oar; as, to row well.
II. Row ·adj & ·adv Rough; stern; angry.
III. Row ·noun The a...
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row
1) A disturbance; a term used by the students at Cambridge.
2) To row in the same boat; to be embar...
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High-hoe
·noun The European green woodpecker or yaffle.
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Prong-hoe
·noun A hoe with prongs to break the earth.
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hoe-cake
A cake of Indian meal, baked before the fire. In the interior parts of the country, where kitchen ut...
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hoe-mother
, or homer.
The basking shark, Squalus maximus.
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hoe-tusk
♦ Squalus mustela, smooth hound-fish of the Shetlanders.
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Hard grass
·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...
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Hard steel
·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...
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Hard-favored
·adj Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
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Hard-featured
·adj Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
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Hard-fisted
·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
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Hard-fought
(·adv Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Hard-hearted
·adj Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
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Hard-labored
·adj Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
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Hard-mouthed
·adj Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Hard-tack
·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
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Hard-visaged
·adj Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
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die hard
To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...
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hard cash
Silver or gold coin.
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hard drinker
One who drinks to excess; a drunkard.
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hard money
A common term for silver and gold, in contradistinction from paper money.
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hard pushed
To be bard pressed; to be in a difficulty; and especially, as a mercantile phrase, to be hard presse...
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hard run
To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed.
We knew the Tam...
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blowing hard
Said of the wind when it is strong and steady.
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hard bargain
A useless fellow; a skulker.
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hard fish
A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk, &c., salted and dried.
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hard gale
When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her storm staysails, No. 10 force.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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Christcross-row
·- The alphabet;
— formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a super...
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Crisscross-row
·noun ·see Christcross-row.
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Row, John
(1568-1646)
Scottish ecclesiastical historian, b. at Perth, s. of John R., one of the Scottish Refo...
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Bowyer Row
Between Ludgate on the west and Creed Lane east (S. 315).
First mention: "Ludgatstrete," commonly c...
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Broker Row
See Blomfield Street.
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Budge Row
South-east from Watling Street to Cannon Street (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook and Cordwainer Wards.
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Bugge Row
See Budge Row.
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Buttonmould Row
In Dean's Court, St. Martin's le Grand (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in maps.
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Charlotte Row
South out of Mansion House Street, and the Poultry on the west side of the Mansion House. In Walbroo...
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Church Row
1) South out of Fenchurch Street, west of the church of St. Katherine Coleman to Fenchurch Street St...
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Cookes Row
Fitzstephen, writing in the reign of Henry II. c. 1174, says that there was in London on the banks o...
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Cooper's Row
South out of Crutched Friars, at No. 17, to Trinity Square (P.O. Directory). Partly in Aldgate Ward,...
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Currier's Row
South out of Ireland Yard, to Green Dragon Court, west of and parallel to St. Andrew's Hill, Blackfr...
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Curriers' Row
Named after the Curriers who lived here.
See London Wall; also Currier's Court, Blackfriars.
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Falcon Row
1) Out of Fleet Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) In Lothbury (Stry...
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Galley Row
A quadrant in Tower Street, between Hart lane and Church lane, because Galley men dwelled there (S. ...
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Garden Row
In the Inner Temple, within the Temple precincts (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the m...
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Goldsmith Row
The south side of East Harding Street from 9 Great New Street to Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane, was so ...
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Goldsmiths' Row
In Cheapside, on the south side, extending from Bread Street to the Cross in Cheap at Wood Street in...
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Jackanape's Row
North out of St. Paul's Churchyard to Blow Bladder Street, in Farringdon Ward Within, at the western...
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Manor Row
South-east out of Little Tower Hill to Upper East Smithfield (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1810).
Removed ...
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Middle Row
1) In Newgate Street, extending from Blow bladder street to Newgate Market (Leake, 1666). In Farring...
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Moldmaker Row
See Mouldmaker's Row.
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Mouldmaker's Row
West out of Foster Lane and north from Round Court and west and north into Dean's Court. In St. Mart...
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Paternoster Row
West from Cheapside, at No. 4a, to Warwick Lane and Ave Maria Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon W...
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Pemberton Row
At the north-west corner of Gough Square to Trinity Church Passage, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O....
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Pemberton's Row
See Trinity Church Passage.
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Postern Row
Between Great Tower Hill and Little Tower Hill (Strype, ed. 1720-O.S.25, in 1880).
Seems to have be...
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Rug Row
In Cloth Fair (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Russia Row
East out of Milk Street, at No. I, to Trump Street (P.O. Directory). In Cheap Ward and Cripplegate W...
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Sandy's Row
South out of Artillery Lane, at No.32, to Middlesex Street. The western side in Bishopsgate Ward Wit...
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Shoemaker's Row
See Duke Street, Aldgate.
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Sporyer Row
See Spurrier Row.
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Spurrier Row
At the end of Ave Mary Lane is Creed Lane, late so called, but sometime Spurrier Rowe, of Spurriers ...
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Stockfishmonger Row
The portion of Thames Street extending west from Fish Street Hill to Old Swan Lane was so called (S....
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Union Row
On the east side of the Minories at its junction with Sparrow Corner and Tower Hill (P.O. Directory)...
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tow row
A grenadier. The tow row club; a club or society of the grenadier officers of the line.
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
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wind-row
to wind-row, to rake the mown grass into rows, called wind-rows. Norf. and Suff.
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rotten row
A line of old ships-in-ordinary in routine order.
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row dry!
The order to those who row, not to splash water into the boat.
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row-ports
Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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lie-to, to
To cause a vessel to keep her head steady as regards a gale, so that a heavy sea may not tumble into...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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hard-a-lee
The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...
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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore.
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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...
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hard-a-starboard
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whi...
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hard-a-weather!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...
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king's hard bargain
A useless fellow, who is not worth his hire.
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row in the same boat, to
To be of similar principles.
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Crown Office Row
On the north side of the Inner Temple Gardens, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory).
First ...
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Dyer's Court Row
On the west side of Dowgate Hill, south of Skinners' Hall (Rocque, 1746). In Dowgate Ward.
Called "...
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Hart Row Street
Between Snow Hill and Newgate Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Former na...
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Little Manor Row
East out of Manor Row, Little Tower Hill (Lockie, 1810).
Removed for the formation of St. Katherine...
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Shoemaker Row, Lane
See Carter Lane.
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christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's...
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put to sea, to
To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination.
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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...
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Lean-to
·adj Having only one slope or pitch;
— said of a roof.
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Set-to
·noun A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
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To-beat
·vt To beat thoroughly or severely.
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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces.
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To-brest
·vt To burst or break in pieces.
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To-day
·noun The present day.
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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to.
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To-name
·noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
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To-rend
·vt To rend in pieces.
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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend.
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to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
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to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
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to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
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to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant. --Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
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to grab
To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, sn...
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hump, to
v.
to shoulder, carry on the back;especially, to hump the swag, or bluey, or drum. See Swag, Bluey,...
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jump, to
v.
to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...
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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...
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to cotton to
'To cotton to one,' is to take a liking to him; to fancy him; literally to stick to him, as cotton w...
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abase, to
An old word signifying to lower a flag or sail. Abaisser is in use in the French marine, and both ma...
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abate, to
An old Anglo-Norman word from abattre, to beat down or destroy; as, to abate a castle or fort, is to...
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abet, to
To excite or encourage a common word, greatly in use at boat-racings, and other competitive acts.
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abrase, to
To dubb or smooth planks.
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accoil, to
To coil together, by folding round. (See coil.)
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accompany, to
To sail together; to sail in convoy.
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accost, to
To pass within hail of a ship; to sail coastwise; to approach, to draw near, or come side by side.
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adjourn, to
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays exc...
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adjust, to
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a ch...
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advance, to
An old word, meaning to raise to honour.
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aid, to
To succour; to supply with provisions or stores.
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allow, to
To concede a destined portion of stores, &c.
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annul, to
To nullify a signal.
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answer, to
To reply, to succeed; as, the frigate has answered the signal. This boat will not answer.
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commute, to
To lighten the sentence of a court-martial, on a recommendation of the court to the commander-in-chi...
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compass, to
To curve; also to obtain one's object.
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complain, to
The creaking of masts, or timbers, when over-pressed, without any apparent external defect. One man ...
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compliment, to
To render naval or military honour where due.
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conquer, to
To overcome decidedly.
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consign, to
To send a consignment of goods to an agent or factor for sale or disposal.
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copper, to
To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper.
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corn, to
A remainder of the Anglo-Saxon ge-cyrned, salted. To preserve meat for a time by salting it slightly...
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couple, to
To bend two hawsers together; coupling links of a cable; coupling shackles.
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cripple, to
To disable an enemy's ship by wounding his masts, yards, and steerage gear, thereby placing him hors...
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cund, to
To give notice which way a shoal of fish is gone.
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cure, to
To salt meat or fish.
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debark, to
To land; to go on shore.
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decamp, to
To raise the camp; the breaking up from a place where an army has been encamped.
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deck, to
A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails."
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derrick, to
A cant term for setting out on a small not over-creditable enterprise. The act is said to be named f...
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diddle, to
To deceive.
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ding, to
To dash down or throw with violence.
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dip, to
To lower. An object is said to be dipping when by refraction it is visible just above the horizon. A...
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discourse, to
An old sea term to traverse to and fro off the proper course.
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dish, to
To supplant, ruin, or frustrate.
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dismount, to
To break the carriages of guns, and thereby render them unfit for service. Also, in gun exercise, to...
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disorganize, to
To degrade a man-of-war to a privateer by irregularity.
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dive, to
To descend or plunge voluntarily head-foremost under the water. To go off deck in the watch. A ship ...
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doff, to
To put aside.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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douse, to
To lower or slacken down suddenly; expressed of a sail in a squall of wind, an extended hawser, &c. ...
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dout, to
To put out a light; to extinguish; do out. Shakspeare makes the dauphin of France say in "King Henry...
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dress, to
To place a fleet in organized order; also, to arrange men properly in ranks; to present a true conti...
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drive, to
[from the Anglo-Saxon dryfan].
A ship drives when her anchor trips or will not hold. She drives to...
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dubb, to
To smooth and cut off with an adze the superfluous wood.
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duck, to
To dive, or immerse another under water; or to avoid a shot.
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egg, to
To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.
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eke, to
[Anglo-Saxon eácan, to prolong.] To make anything go far by reduction and moderation, as in shorteni...
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embark, to
To go on board, or to put on board a vessel.
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endanger, to
To expose to peril.
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enrol, to
To enter the name on the roll of a corps.
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ensconce, to
To intrench; to protect by a slight fortification.
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flying-to
Is when a vessel, from sailing free or having tacked, and her head thrown much to leeward, is coming...
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founder, to
to fill with water and go down.
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frap, to
To bind tightly together. To pass lines round a sail to keep it from blowing loose. To secure the fa...
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free, to
♦ To free a prisoner. To restore him to liberty.
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gip, to
To take the entrails out of fishes.
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gird, to
To bind; used formerly for striking a blow.
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glent, to
To turn aside or quit the original direction, as a shot does from accidentally impinging on a hard s...
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glower, to
to stare or look intently.
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grabble, to
To endeavour to hook a sunk article. To catch fish by hand in a brook.
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grapple, to
To hook with a grapnel; to lay hold of. First used by Duilius to prevent the escape of the Carthagin...
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grave, to
To clean a vessel's bottom, and pay it over.
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grill, to
To broil on the bars of the galley-range, as implied by its French derivation.
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griped-to
The situation of a boat when secured by gripes.
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ground, to
To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident.
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guddle, to
To catch fish with the hands by groping along a stream's bank.
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gudge, to
To poke or prod for fish under stones and banks of a river.
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