grape, macquarie harbour

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• macquarie harbour grape

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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• macquarie harbour vine

  See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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• vine, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Grape (q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy. 1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...

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• Grape

  ·noun <<Grapeshot>>. II. Grape ·noun A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. III. Grape ·noun The pla...

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• Grape

  The fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as "tende...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• grape

  n. called also Native Grape. An Australian fruit tree, Vitis hypoglauca, F. v. M., N.O. Viniferae; ...

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• Grape

  [Vine] ...

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• harbour

  A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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• macquarie pine

  n. See pine. ...

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• Grape fruit

  ·- The <<Shaddock>>. ...

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• Isabella grape

  ·- A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. ·see Fox grape, under <<Fox>>. ...

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• Oregon grape

  ·- An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its round...

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• Sea grape

  ·- The gulf weed. ·see under <<Gulf>>. II. Sea grape ·- The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of ...

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• Grape Street

  By Little Moorfields (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. Qy. = Grub Street (q.v.). ...

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• grape-eater

  n. a bird, called formerly Fig-eater, now known as the Green-backedWhite-eye (q.v.), Zosterops goul...

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• native grape

  n. See grape, gippsland. ...

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• Harbour Lane

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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• bank-harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• harbour-dues

  See port-charges. ...

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• harbour-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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• harbour-guards

  Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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• harbour-log

  That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• harbour-reach

  The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• hidden harbour

  That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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• island harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• shoaled-harbour

  That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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• tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• tide or tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• Port-Macquarie Pine

  See pine. ...

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• round and grape

  A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...

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• Cole-Harbour Lane

  1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Cole Harbour Stairs

  At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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• harbour-duty men

  Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• thwart-marks, to a harbour

  Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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