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Shell
·noun A <<Pod>>.
II. Shell ·vi To fall off, as a shell, crust, ·etc.
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shell
In artillery, a hollow iron shot containing explosive materials, whether spherical, elongated, eccen...
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Out
·vt To come out with; to make known.
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out and out
1) Thorough.
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Acorn-shell
·noun One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. ·see <<Barnacle>>.
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Argus shell
·- A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peaco...
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Ark shell
·- A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.
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Boat shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
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Bubble shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
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Ear-shell
·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis;
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Fig-shell
·noun A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
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Goroon shell
·- A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Ioqua shell
·- The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, b...
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Maara shell
·- A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used...
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Mail-shell
·noun A <<Chiton>>.
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Mask shell
·- Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
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Pouch-shell
·noun A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).
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Rice-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.
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Shell-lac
·noun ·Alt. of <<Shellac>>.
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Shell-less
·adj Having no shell.
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Slit-shell
·noun Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a d...
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Soft-shell
·adj ·Alt. of Soft-shelled.
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Spur-shell
·noun Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. Th...
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Tongue-shell
·noun Any species of Lingula.
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Top-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochi...
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Torpedo shell
·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...
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Trough-shell
·noun Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. ·see <<Mactra>>.
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Tube-shell
·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
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Tulip-shell
·noun A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern...
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Turban-shell
·noun A sea urchin when deprived of its spines;
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Turnip-shell
·noun Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, som...
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Turtle-shell
·noun The turtle cowrie.
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Tusk-shell
·noun ·see 2d Tusk, ·noun, 2.
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Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
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Wedge-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in w...
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Wing-shell
·noun Any pteropod shell.
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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus.
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Wreath-shell
·noun A marine shell of the genus Turbo. ·see <<Turbo>>.
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oat-shell
n.
the shell of various species of Columbella, a small marine mollusc used for necklaces.
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rice-shell
n.
The name is applied elsewhereto various shells; in Australia it denotes the shell of variousspec...
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rosary-shell
n.
In Europe, the name isapplied to any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. In Australia...
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shell-grinder
n.
another name for the Port-Jackson Shark (q.v.).
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tooth-shell
n. The name is applied, inEurope, to any species of Dentalium and allied generahaving a tooth-shaped...
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clam-shell
The lips, or mouth. There is a common though vulgar expression in New England, of "Shut your clam-sh...
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blind-shell
One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...
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bomb-shell
A large hollow ball of cast-iron, for throwing from mortars (distinguished by having ears or lugs, b...
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crow-shell
A fresh-water mussel.
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live-shell
One filled with its charge of powder or other combustible. It is also called a loaded shell.
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loaded-shell
A shell filled with lead, to be thrown from a mortar. The term is also used for live-shells.
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mail-shell
A name for the chiton.
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segment-shell
For use with rifled guns; an elongated iron shell having very thin sides, and built up internally wi...
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shell-fish
A general term applied to aquatic animals having a hard external covering or shell, as whelks, oyste...
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shell-room
An important compartment in ships of war, fitted up with strong shelves to receive the shells when c...
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shell, shrapnel
See shrapnel shell.
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shrapnel shell
Invented by General Shrapnel to produce, at a long range, the effect of common case; whence they hav...
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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Cut-out
·noun A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
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Diner-out
·noun One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
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Go-out
·noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out...
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Knock-out
·add. ·noun Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.
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Out-Herod
·vt To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
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Out-patient
·noun A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
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Printing out
·add. ·- A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action ...
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Punt-out
·add. ·noun A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one...
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Stopping-out
·noun A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently ...
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Straight-out
·adj Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
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Top out
·add. ·- To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top``ping-out...
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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded.
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Worn-out
·adj Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
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Wung-out
·adj Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
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hang out
The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live.
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cut out
v.
1) To separate cattle from therest of the herd in the open.
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duffer out
v.
A mine is said to duffer out,when it has ceased to be productive.
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dug-out
n.
a name imported into New Zealandfrom America, but the common name for an ordinary Maori canoe.
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out-station
n. a sheep or cattle stationaway from the Head-station (q.v.).
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peg-out
v. tr.
to mark out a gold-claim underthe Mining Act, or a Free-Selection (q.v.) under theLand Act, ...
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pinch-out
v.
to thin out and disappear (ofgold-bearing). This use is given in the `Standard,' butwithout quot...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
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to blurt out
To speak inadvertently, and without reflection.
They blush if they blurt out, are well aware
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to chalk out
To mark or trace out as with chalk.--Johnson. To chalk out a plan or proceeding, is to devise or lay...
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to clear out
To take oneself off; to depart, decamp. A vulgar expression.
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to cut out
To supersede one in the affections of another. A familiar expression in common use: "Miss A was enga...
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to fizzle out
To be quenched, extinguished; to prove a failure. A favorite expression in Ohio.
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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...
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to flunk out
To retire through fear; to back out.
Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you flunk out out bef...
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to let out
To begin a story or narrative. A Western expression.
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to put out
To remove; to be off. A Western expression. To put is used in the same sense.
As my wife's father h...
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to snake out
To drag out; to haul out, as a snake from its hole. A farmer in clearing land, attaches a chain to a...
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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camp out
To encamp out of doors for the night.
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dragged out
Fatigued; exhausted; worn out with labor.
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dug-out
The name in the Western States for a canoe or boat, hewn or dug out of a large log. They are common ...
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fagged out
Fatigued; worn out.
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tuckered out
Tired out; fatigued. Used in New York and New England.
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barring-out
The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the mas...
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dorz'd out
spoken of corn, beaten out by the agitation of the wind. N.
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out-catch
to overtake. North.
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out-cumbling
a stranger. Lane.
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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camp-out
See camp, to
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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry.
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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...
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falling out
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring.
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heaving out
The act of loosing or unfurling a sail; particularly applied to the staysails; or in the tops, footi...
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levelled out
Any line continued out from a given point, or intersection of an angle, in a horizontal direction.
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lie out!
The order to the men aloft to distribute themselves on the yards for loosing, reefing, or furling sa...
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look-out
Watchful attention; there is always a look-out kept from the forecastle, foretopsail-yard, or above,...
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out-board
The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board.
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out-boats
The order to hoist out the boats.
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out-haul
, or out-hauler
A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...
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out-holling
Clearing tide-ports, canals, and channels of mud.
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out-licker
A corruption of out-rigger (which see).
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out-lier
A word which has been often used for out-rigger, but applies to outlying rocks, visible above water....
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out-oars
The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat.
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out-pensioners
Those entitled to pensions from Greenwich Hospital, but not admitted to "the house."
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out-ports
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
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out-rigger
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paying out
The act of slackening a cable or rope, so as to let it run freely. When a man talks grandiloquently,...
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rigging out
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar.
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selling out
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splitting out
To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...
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stretch out!
In rowing, is the order to pull strong; to bend forward to the utmost.
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roman-lamp shell
name given in Tasmania to abrachiopod mollusc, Waldheimia flavescens, Lamarck.
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tortoise-shell fish
See hand-fish.
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Knock-out drops
·add. ·- Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, ·etc.
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Out-of-door
·adj Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. ·se...
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to cut out of
To cheat, deprive of.
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out of fix
Disarranged; in a state of disorder.
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out of sorts
Out of order; disordered. Dr. Millingen, in his remarks on persons of phlegmatic temperament, says:
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blown itself out
Said of a falling gale of wind.
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bright look-out
A vigilant one.
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cut out, to
To attack and carry a vessel by a boat force; one of the most dashing and desperate services practis...
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fag-out, to
to wear out the end of a rope or end of canvas.
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fall out, to
To increase in breadth. Among soldiers and small-arm men, to quit the ranks of a company.
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heave out there!
The order to hasten men from their hammocks.
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heaving keel out
The utmost effect to be produced by careening, viz. to raise the keel out of the water in order to r...
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hove keel out
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
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in and out
A term sometimes used for the scantling of timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bol...
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line out stuff
To mark timber for dressing to shape.
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out-and-outer
An old phrase signifying thorough excellence; a man up to his duty, and able to perform it in style....
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out-earing cleat
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle.
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out-flank, to
By a longer front, to overlap the enemy's opposite line, and thus gain a chance to turn his flank.
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out of commission
A ship where officers and men are paid off, and pennant hauled down.
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out of trim
A ship not properly balanced for fast sailing, which may be by a defect in the rigging or in the sto...
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out of winding
Said of a plank or piece of timber which has a fair and even surface without any twists: the opposit...
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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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out-sail, to
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch.
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reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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ream or reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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serving out slops
Distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.
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step out, to
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c.
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out at heels, or out at elbows
In declining circumstances.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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fitting out a ship
The act of providing a ship with sufficient masts, sails, yards, ammunition, artillery, cordage, anc...
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haul out to leeward!
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed.
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look out for squalls
Beware; cautionary.
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sharp look-out before!
The hail for the forecastle look-out men to be extremely vigilant.
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trice up lie out!
The order to lift the studding-sail boom-ends while the top-men move out on the yards, preparatory t...
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turn out the guard!
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...
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lying out on a yard
To go out towards the yard-arms.
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laying or lying out on a yard
To go out towards the yard-arms.
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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to
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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to
To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...
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run out a warp, to
To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...
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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...
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eating the wind out of a vessel
Applies to very keen seamanship, by which the vessel, from a close study of her capabilities, steals...
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throwing a steam-engine out of gear
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever.
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running out, and running in, the lower deck guns
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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry.
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
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