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Van
·noun A shovel used in cleansing ore.
II. Van ·noun A wing with which the air is beaten.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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van
Madam Van; see MADAM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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van
a fan or machine for winnowing corn. Glouc.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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van
[formerly vant, contracted from avant]. That part of a fleet, army, or body of men, which is advance...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Land
·noun The ground or floor.
II. Land ·noun The inhabitants of a nation or people.
III. Land ·noun U...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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land
How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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land
1) a division in ploughing. N.
2) urine ; to lant or leint ale, to put urine into it to make it str...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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land
In a general sense denotes terra firma, as distinguished from sea; but, also, land-laid, or to lay t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Van-courier
·noun One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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van-neck
Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Land League
·add. ·- In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parn...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Land-poor
·adj Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Table-land
·noun A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
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land lopers
Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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land lubbers
Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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land pirates
Highwaymen.
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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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scratch land
Scotland.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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banana-land
n.
slang name for Queensland,where bananas grow in abundance.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to re-land
To go on shore after having embarked.--Webster.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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land-loper
(Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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land-lubber
(Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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burthensome-land
land that yields good crops in general. York. Bus, to bus, to dress. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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catch-land
land which is not certainly known to what parish it belongs, and the minister that first gets the ti...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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old land
ground that has lain long untilled, and just ploughed up. The same in Essex is called new lands.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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ope-land
ground ploughed up every year ; ground that is loose and open. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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drowned land
Extensive marshes or other water-covered districts which were once dry and sound land.
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land-blink
On Arctic voyages, a peculiar atmospheric brightness on approaching land covered with snow; usually ...
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land-breeze
A current of air which, in the temperate zones, and still more within the tropics, regularly sets fr...
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land-fall
Making the land. "A good land-fall" signifies making the land at or near the place to which the cour...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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land-feather
A sea-cove.
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land ho!
The cry when land is first seen.
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land-ice
Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no channel.
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land-louper
[Dutch.]
Meaning he who flies from this country for crime or debt, but not to be confounded with l...
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land-lubber
A useless longshorer; a vagrant stroller. Applied by sailors to the mass of landsmen, especially tho...
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land-sharks
Crimps, pettifogging attorneys, slopmongers, and the canaille infesting the slums of sea-port towns....
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land-slip
The fall of a quantity of land from a cliff or declivity; the land sliding away so as often to carry...
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land-turn
A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries.
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land-waiters
See landing-waiters.
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lubber-land
A kind of El Dorado in sea-story, or country of pleasure without work, all sharing alike.
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sunk land
Shallows and swamps.
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table-land
Land which is flat-topped, however it may be raised more or less above the ordinary level of the vic...
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totty-land
Certain heights on the side of a hill [probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon totian, to elevate].
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No-man's land
·- Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.
II. No-man's land ·- A space amidships used to keep blocks, ro...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shalim, Land of
Land of foxes, a place apparently to the north-west of Jerusalem (1 Sam. 9:4), perhaps in the neighb...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Shalisha, Land of
Probably the district of Baal-shalisha (2 Kings 4:42), lying about 12 miles north of Lydda (1 Sam. 9...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Zuph, Land of
(1 Sam. 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel's city, Ramah. It was probably so named after Elkana...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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to break up land
To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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half-drowned land
Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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neck of land
Dividing two portions of water, or it may be the neck of a peninsula.
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no-man's land
A space in midships between the after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a boat when it is stow...
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sighting the land
Running in to catch a view.
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Land of Steady Habits
·add. ·- Connecticut;
— a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shinar, The Land of
LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or South...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Shual, The land of
Land of the fox, a district in the tribe of Benjamin (1 Sam. 13:17); possibly the same as Shalim (9:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Sinim, The land of
(Isa. 49:12), supposed by some to mean China, but more probably Phoenicia (Gen. 10:17) is intended.
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Tob, The land of
A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Uz, The land of
Where Job lived (1:1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21), probably somewhere to the east or south-east of Palest...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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keep the land aboard
Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit.
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lay the land, to
Barely to lose sight of it.
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make the land, to
To see it from a distance after a voyage.
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Benjamin, The Land Of
The proximity of Benjamin to Ephraim during the march to the promised land was maintained in the ter...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Canaan, The Land Of
(lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those w...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Shalim, The Land Of
(the land of foxes), a district through which Saul passed on his journey in quest of his father's as...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Shalisha, The Land Of
one of the districts traversed by Saul when in search of the asses of Kish. (1 Samuel 9:4) only. It ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Shual, The Land Of
a district named in (1 Samuel 13:17) only. It is pretty certain from the passage that it lay north o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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close with the land, to
To approach near to it.
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heading up the land water
When the flood-tide is backed by a wind, so that the ebb is retarded, causing an overflow.
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make free with the land, to
To approach the shore closely.
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keep a good hold of the land
Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done.
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