forty-legs

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• Forty

  ·adj Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more. II. Forty ·noun The sum of four tens; forty units or...

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• legs

  (See angle.) A fast-sailing vessel is said to have legs. ♦ Legs are used in cutters, yachts, &c., ...

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• Forty-niner

  ·add. ·noun One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an <<Argonaut>>. ...

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• Forty-spot

  ·noun The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus). ...

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• forty-spot

  n. name for a bird,a Pardalote (q.v.). Pardalote itself meansspotted «like the pard.» See also Diam...

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• forty-thieves

  A name given to forty line-of-battle ships ordered by the Admiralty at one fell swoop, to be built b...

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• Sea legs

  ·- Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or...

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• Thousand legs

  ·- A millepid, or galleyworm; — called also thousand-legged worm. ...

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• The Three Legs

  In Cannon Street, 1655 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201). Not named in the maps. ...

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• duck legs

  Short legs. ...

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• irish legs

  Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispens...

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• catharpin legs

  See cat-harpings ...

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• cuddy-legs

  A name in the north for large herrings. ...

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• sea-legs

  Implies the power to walk steadily on a ship's decks, notwithstanding her pitching or rolling. ...

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• jack of legs

  A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...

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• jack-o-legs

  a clasp knife. N. ...

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• legs and wings

  See over-masted. ...

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• legs of the martinets

  Small lines through the bolt-ropes of the courses, above a foot in length, and spliced at either end...

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