A little while. 'Stay a piece.' Provincial in the north of England.--Johnson. The common expression is, 'Wait a bit.'
·noun A castle; a fortified building. II. Piece ·noun One of the superior men, distinguished from a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl who is more or less active and skilful in the amorous co...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
applied to time : Stay a piece ; i. e. a little while. York. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. ...
The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...
apron ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart. ...
See chamber ...
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
, or dagger-wood. A timber or plank that faces on to the poppets of the bilge-ways, and crosses th...
A strut or abutment. ...
A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...
See fish ...
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...
A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile. ...
A term for the helmet. ...
The same as short top-timber (which see). ...
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...
See pad ...
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets. ...
See rolling-chock ...
A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases inte...
A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...
, chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...
The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns. ...
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places. ...
The smaller hand mast-spars. ...
The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar. ...
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...