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Driver
·noun The driving wheel of a locomotive. II. Driver ·noun A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to ...

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driver
1) An overseer of slaves. 2) He or that which drives; a coachman, a carman.--Worcester. The English...

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driver
A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It was a square sail cut like a studding...

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Stage
·noun A floor or story of a house. II. Stage ·noun A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of...

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stage
A carriage for conveying passengers; a stage-coach.--Worcester. We sometimes use mail-stage for mail...

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stage
Planks let over the ship's sides by ropes, whereon the people may stand when repairing, &c. ♦ A fl...

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Screw-driver
·noun A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters...

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Stake-driver
·noun The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); — so called because one of its notes res...

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devil driver
A parson. See snub devil. ...

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quill driver
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer. ...

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river driver
A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...

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driver-boom
The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...

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pile-driver
A machine adapted for driving piles. Also, applied to a ship given to pitch heavily in a sea-way. ...

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quill-driver
Captain's clerk, purser's secretary, et hoc genus omne. ...

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Stage director
·add. ·- One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the ...

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Stage fright
·add. ·- Nervousness felt before an <<Audience>>. ...

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Stage manager
·add. ·- One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, pr...

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Stage-struck
·adj Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an <<Actor>>. ...

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airing-stage
A wooden platform, on which gunpowder is aired and dried. ...

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cable-stage
A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. ...

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floating stage
For caulkers, painters, &c. ...

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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle. ...

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hanging-stage
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...

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