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Carpet
·noun A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
II. Carpet ·vt To cover with, or as...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shark
·vi To live by shifts and stratagems.
II. Shark ·vt To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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shark
A sharper: perhaps from his preying upon any one he can lay hold of. Also a custom-house officer, or...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shark
n.
Some of the Australasian speciesare identical with those of Europe. Varieties and nameswhich dif...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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shark
A name applied to many species of large cartilaginous fish of the family Squalidæ. Their ferocity an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Axminster carpet
·add. ·- A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearan...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Wilton carpet
·- A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cu...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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carpet-snake
n.
a large Australian snake witha variegated skin, Python variegata, Gray. InWhitworth's `Anglo-Ind...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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carpet weed
A small spreading plant, common in cultivated ground (molugo).--Bigelow's Plants of Boston.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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carpet-knight
A man who obtains knighthood on a pretence for services in which he never participated.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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carpet-men
Those officers who, without services or merit, obtain rapid promotion through political or other int...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Basking shark
·- One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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sand shark
See blind shark
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blind shark
or Sand Shark
,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.).
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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basking shark
So called from being often seen lying still in the sunshine. A large cartilaginous fish, the Squalus...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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jack-shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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johnny shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bull-dog shark
i.q. bull-head1 (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder.
1882. Rev. J....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book