housen-stuff

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• housen

  as the plural of house. This old form is still used by the illiterate in the interior of New England...

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• housen

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• Stuff

  ·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion. II. Stuff ·vt Paper stock ground ready for use. III. Stuff ·n...

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• stuff

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• Split stuff

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• burnt-stuff

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• split-stuff

  n. timber sawn into lengths andthen split. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. ...

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• bread-stuff

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• diminishing stuff

  In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...

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• dungaree-stuff

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• small stuff

  The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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• thick stuff

  Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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• line out stuff

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