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• Store

  ·adj Accumulated; hoarded. II. Store ·vt Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or re...

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• store

  n. a bullock, cow, or sheep bought to befattened for the market. 1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion ...

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

• store

  In the United States and Canada, shops of every kind for the sale of goods whether at wholesale or r...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Pay

  ·noun Satisfaction; content. II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...

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• to pay

  To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pay

  A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...

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• Department store

  ·add. ·- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, ·esp. o...

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• Re-store

  ·vt To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored. ...

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• store-cattle

  n. lean cattle bought to befattened for the market; often contracted to stores (q.v.). 1885. R. M....

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

• store-keeper

  An officer in the royal dockyards, invested with the general charge of naval stores, as the sails, a...

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• store-ship

  A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores. ...

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• Dead-pay

  ·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. ...

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• Pay Cerps

  ·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...

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• Pay dirt

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock. ...

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• Pay rock

  ·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

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• Pay streak

  ·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...

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• Pay Office

  On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• dead-pay

  That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...

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• full pay

  The stipend allowed when on actual service. ...

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• growing pay

  That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. ...

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• pay, to

  [from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...

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• pay away

  The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope. ♦ Pay down. Send che...

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• retired pay

  A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay. ...

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• sea-pay

  That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship. ...

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• to set store by

  To value; esteem; regard. This sense of the word store is not noticed by the English or American lex...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bill of store

  A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...

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• boatswain's store-room

  Built expressly for boatswain's stores, on a platform or light deck. ...

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• captain's store-room

  A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores. ...

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• carpenter's store-room

  An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...

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• lieutenant's store-room

  More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see). ...

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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• pay round, to

  To turn the ship's head. ...

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• pinch-gut pay

  The short allowance money. ...

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• pay a yard, to

  See pay a mast, to ...

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• pay a mast, to

  or pay a yard, to To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...

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• pay a vessel's bottom, to

  To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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• pay-serjeant, in the army

  A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...

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• pay of the royal navy

  is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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• devil to pay and no pitch hot

  The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

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