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Hammer
·noun The <<Malleus>>.
II. Hammer ·vt To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
III. Ha...
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Hammer
1) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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hammer
The shipwright's hammer is a well-known tool for driving nails and clenching bolts, differing from h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Yellow
·noun A yellow pigment.
II. Yellow ·vi To become yellow or yellower.
III. Yellow ·vt To make yello...
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yellow
To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Gold-hammer
·noun The yellow-hammer.
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Hammer break
·add. ·- An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating ham...
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Hammer lock
·add. ·- A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his op...
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Hammer-beam
·noun A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not...
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Hammer-dressed
·adj Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer;
— said of building s...
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Hammer-harden
·vt To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
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Hammer-less
·adj Without a visible hammer;
— said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and o...
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Tilt hammer
·- A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or ...
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Trip hammer
·- A tilt hammer.
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Water hammer
·- A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel contai...
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Hammer Court
West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Former name : "Hamersmith...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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detonating hammer
A modern introduction into the Royal Navy for firing the guns. With the aid of an attached laniard, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fore-hammer
The sledge-hammer which strikes the iron on the anvil first, if it be heavy work, but the hand-hamme...
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Naples yellow
·- ·see under <<Yellow>>.
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Yellow Book
·add. ·- In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
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Yellow-covered
·adj Covered or bound in yellow paper.
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Yellow-eyed
·adj Having yellow eyes.
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Yellow-golds
·noun A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
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Yellow Street
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Yellow Court
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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yellow belly
A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lily, yellow
n.
a Tasmanian name for Bulbine bulbosa, Haw., N.O. Liliaceae.See Leek, Native.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-belly
n.
In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow fever
sc. the gold-fever.
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47:
«Evident symptoms of the retu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow jacket
n.
a name given to variousgum-trees, and especially to Eucalyptus melliodora,Cunn., E. ochrophlora,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow lily
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek.
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yellow-tail
n.
The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow thyme
n.
a herb, Hibbertiaserpyllifolia, R. Br., N.O. Dilleneaceae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-wood
a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow belly
a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yellow admiral
A retired post-captain, who, not having served his time in that rank, is not entitled to his promoti...
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yellow-belly
A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes...
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yellow fever
A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...
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yellow-flag
The signal of quarantine.
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yellow-tail
A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...
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hammer and tongs
In a noisy, furious manner. Thus, 'They went at it hammer and tongs,' is said of persons quarrelling...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hammer-headed shark
The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...
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deep yellow-wood
n.
Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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light yellow-wood
i.q. long-jack (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hammer, of a gun-lock
Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the prim...
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staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose