to stay put

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• Put

  ·noun A certain game at cards. II. Put ·noun A <<Pit>>. III. Put ·Impf & ·p.p. of Put. IV. Put ·n...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• put

  A country put; an ignorant awkward clown. To put upon any one; to attempt to impose on him, or to ma...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Put

  (1 Chronicles 1:8; Nahum 3:9) [Phut, Put] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Stay

  ·noun Hindrance; let; check. II. Stay ·vi To continue in a state. III. Stay ·vi To change tack; as...

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• stay

  A cuckold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stay

  A large strong rope extending from the upper end of each mast towards the stem of the ship, as the s...

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• Put-off

  ·noun A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an <<Excuse>>. ...

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• Put-up

  ·adj Arranged; plotted; — in a bad sense; as, a put-up job. ...

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• Put, Phut

  1) One of the sons of Ham (Gen. 10:6). 2) A land or people from among whom came a portion of the me...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• country put

  An ignorant country fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• put off

  An excuse, an illusory pretext for delay.--Carr's Craven Dialect. If a man tells them of the king's...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• put about

  Go on the other tack. ...

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• put off!

  or push off The order to boats to quit the ship or the shore. ...

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• Phut, Put

  (a bow) the third name in the list of the sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) elsewhere app...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• bob stay

  A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sand-stay

  n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• a-stay

  Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...

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• belly-stay

  Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above. ...

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• fore-stay

  See stay. ...

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• jib-stay

  The stay on which the jib is set. ...

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• short stay

  "Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...

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• stay apeek

  When the cable and fore-stay form a line. (See apeek.) ...

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• stay-rods

  See stay-bars ...

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• stay-bars

  , or stay-rods. Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....

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• staysail-stay

  The stay on which a staysail is set. ...

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• triatic stay

  A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its big...

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• two handed put

  The amorous congress. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to put on airs

  To assume airs of importance. You don't see no folks putting on airs in election time; every fellow...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• put back, to

  To return to port generally the last left. ...

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• stay-a-while

  n. a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cutter-stay fashion

  The turning-in of a dead-eye with the end of the shroud down. ...

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• inner jib-stay

  A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...

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• put into port, to

  To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather. ...

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• put to sea, to

  To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination. ...

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• eye of a stay

  That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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