lumber-waggon

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• waggon

  A place amidships, on the upper deck of guard-ships, assigned for the supernumeraries' hammocks. ...

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• Lumber

  (·b.t.) To heap together in disorder. II. Lumber ·vi To move heavily, as if burdened. III. Lumber ...

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• lumber

  Live lumber; soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. ...

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• lumber

  Timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, and the like.--Webst...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lumber

  harm, mischief. Lane. ...

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• lumber

  Logs as they arrive at the mills. Also, timber of any size, sawed or split for use. Also, things sto...

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• london waggon

  The tender which carried the impressed men from off the tower to the receiving-ship at the Nore. ...

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• tea-waggon

  A name given to the old East India Company's ships on account of their cargo. ...

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• Lumber State

  ·add. ·- Maine; — a nickname. ...

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• live lumber

  A term used by sailors, to signify all landsmen on board their ships. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lumber troop

  A club or society of citizens of London. ...

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• lumber house

  A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property. ...

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• live-lumber

  Passengers, ladies, landsmen, cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry. ...

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