spike team

Related Words

• Team

  ·noun A flock of wild ducks. II. Team ·noun Hence, a number of animals moving together. III. Team ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• team

  , teem to pour out, to lade out of one vessel into another : perhaps from the Danish word TOMMER, t...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• team

  Ships blockading a port, being generally formed in a line, are said to be "in the team." ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Spike

  ·vt To fix on a spike. II. Spike ·noun An ear of corn or grain. III. Spike ·vt To set or furnish w...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• team-boat

  A ferry-boat worked with horses by paddle-wheel propulsion. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ushant team

  The sobriquet given to that portion of the Channel fleet which blockaded Brest. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• marline-spike

  An iron pin tapering to a point, and principally used to separate the strands of a rope, in order to...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• spike-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• spike-plank

  (Speak-plank?) In Polar voyages, a platform projecting across the vessel before the mizen-mast, to e...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• spike-tackle and cant-falls

  The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• spike-tub

  A vessel in which the fat of bears, seals, and minor quarry is set aside till a "making off" gives a...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• marline-spike hitch

  A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

  The Sailor's Word-Book