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Iron
·noun Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
II. Iron ·noun Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.
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Iron
Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai befo...
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iron
Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison win...
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Iron
is mentioned with brass as the earliest of known metals. (Genesis 4:22) The natural wealth in iron o...
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Hand
·noun Rate; price.
II. Hand ·vi To <<Cooperate>>.
III. Hand ·noun A bundle of tobacco leaves tied ...
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Hand
Called by Galen "the instrument of instruments." It is the symbol of human action (Ps. 9:16; Job 9:3...
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hand
A sailor. We lost a hand; we lost a sailor. Bear a hand; make haste. Hand to fist; opposite: the sam...
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hand
A phrase often used for the word man, as, "a hand to the lead," "clap more hands on," &c.
♦ To han...
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hand-over-hand
Hauling rapidly upon any rope, by the men passing their hands alternately one before the other, or o...
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hand-under-hand
Descending a rope by the converse of hand-over-hand ascent.
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Bar iron
·- ·see under <<Iron>>.
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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Brand iron
·- A branding iron.
II. Brand iron ·- A trivet to set a pot on.
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Branding iron
·- An iron to brand with.
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Bridle iron
·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...
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Cast iron
·- Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace;
— used for making castings, and...
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Cast-iron
·adj Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
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Cramp iron
·- ·see <<Cramp>>, ·noun, 2.
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Grozing iron
·- A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.
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Harping iron
·- A <<Harpoon>>.
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Iron works
·- ·see under Iron, ·adj.
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Iron-cased
·adj Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
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Iron-fisted
·adj Closefisted; stingy; mean.
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Iron-gray
·noun An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color.
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Iron-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master.
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Iron-sick
·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded;
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Iron-sided
·adj Having iron sides, or very firm sides.
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Lofting iron
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Lofter>>.
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Making-iron
·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...
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Spiegel iron
·- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per c...
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T iron
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Tee iron
·- ·see T iron, under <<T>>.
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Tue-iron
·noun ·see <<Tuyere>>.
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Iron Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Within and Castle ...
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cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
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split iron
The nick-name for a smith.
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toasting iron
A sword.
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shooting iron
A common Western term for a rifle, or fowling piece.
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talking-iron
A comical name for a gun or rifle; called also a shooting-iron.
I hops out of bed, feels for my tru...
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waffle-iron
(Dutch wafelyzen.) A wafer-iron; a utensil for baking waffles.
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chinsing-iron
A caulker's tool for chinsing seams with.
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horsing-iron
An iron fixed in a withy handle, sometimes only lashed to a stick or tree-nail, and used with a beet...
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iron-bound
A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...
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iron-clad, cased, coated
, or plated vessel.
One covered entirely, or in special parts, with iron plates intended to resist...
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iron garters
A cant word for bilboes, or fetters.
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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iron-sick
The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...
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iron-sides
Formerly a sobriquet for favourite veteran men-of-war, but latterly applied to iron and iron-clad sh...
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iron wedges
Tapered iron wedges on the well-known mechanical principle, for splitting out blocks and for other s...
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iron-work
A general name for all pieces of iron, of whatever figure or size, which are used in the constructio...
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making iron
One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...
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meaking iron
The tool used by caulkers to run old oakum out of the seams before inserting new.
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pig-iron
(See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead.
"A nodding b...
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point iron
A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line.
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rasing-iron
A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh.
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reeming-iron
The larger iron used by caulkers in opening the seams.
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ripping-iron
A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bot...
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tee-iron
An instrument for drawing the lower box in the barrel of a pump. T-shaped clamp, knee, or other piec...
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traveller-iron
To a cutter's fore-sail, boom-mainsail, or spanker-boom; generally termed traveller horse. (See hors...
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Black Hand
·add. ·- A lawless or blackmailing secret society, ·esp. among Italians.
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Bloody hand
·- A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the Un...
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Bow hand
·- The hand that holds the bow, ·i.e., the left hand.
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First-hand
·adj Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an <<Ag...
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Free-hand
·adj Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. ·see ...
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Hand flus
·pl of <<Handful>>.
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Hand staves
·pl of <<Hand>>.
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Hand-hole
·noun A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, ·etc.
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Hand-tight
·adj As tight as can be made by the hand.
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Hand-winged
·adj Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones;
— said of ba...
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Hand-work
·noun ·see <<Handiwork>>.
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Left-hand
·adj Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-han...
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One-hand
·adj Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. ·see <<Dactylology>>.
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Red-hand
(·adj / ·adv) ·Alt. of Red-handed.
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Right-hand
·adj Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
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Text hand
·add. ·- A large hand in writing;
— so called because it was the practice to write the text of a bo...
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Text-hand
·noun A large hand in writing;
— so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book ...
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Two-hand
·adj Employing two hands; as, the two-hand alphabet. ·see <<Dactylology>>.
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Left hand
Among the Hebrews, denoted the north (Job 23:9; Gen. 14:15), the face of the person being supposed t...
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Hand Alley
1) On Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) Sou...
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Hand Court
1) West out of Philip Lane in Cripplegate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
Also called : "...
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old hand
Knowing or expert in any business.
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spoon hand
The right hand.
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hand-fish
n.
a Tasmanian fish, Brachionichthys hirsutus, Lacep., family Pediculati. The name is used in the n...
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hand, old
n.
one who has been a convict.
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 141:
«The men who hav...
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on hand
At hand; present. A colloquial expression in frequent use.
The Anti-Sabbath meeting, so long talked...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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car-hand
the left hand. N.
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gaulish-hand
the left hand. N.
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nigh-hand
hard by. North.
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hand-grenade
A small shell for throwing by hand. (See grenade.)
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hand-gun
An old term for small arms in the times of Henry VII. and VIII.
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hand-lead
A small lead used in the channels, or chains, when approaching land, and for sounding in rivers or h...
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hand-line
A line bent to the hand-lead, measured at certain intervals with what are called marks and deeps fro...
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hand-pump
The common movable pump for obtaining fresh water, &c., from tanks or casks.
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hand-saw
The smallest of the saws used by shipwrights, and used by one hand.
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hand-screw
A handy kind of single jack-screw.
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hand-tight
A rope hauled as taut as it can be by hand only.
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old hand
A knowing and expert person.
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second-hand
A term in fishing-boats to distinguish the second in charge.
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taut hand
A strict disciplinarian.
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Hand in Hand Fire Office
At No. 1 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on the east side (Elmes, 1831).
Est. 1696 in Angel Court, Snow...
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Falkirk Iron Warehouse
On the south side of Thames Street in O.S. 1880. In Vintry Ward.
It occupied part of the site of Sh...
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iron-bound blocks
Those which are fitted with iron strops.
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iron-plated ships
See armour-clad.
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Four-in-hand
·noun A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.
II. Four-in...
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hand Alley, Bishopsgate
See New Street9, Bishopsgate.
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Hand Alley, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch, near the northern boundary of the ward. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed...
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hand basket portion
A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to bear a hand
A seaman's phrase. To be ready ; to go to work; to assist.
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to stand in hand
To concern; to behoove.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. This phrase is a colloquial one in New England. Ex. '...
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hand and glove
Intimate, familiar; i. e. as closely united as a hand and its glove. 'They are hand and glove togeth...
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hand to mouth
'To live from hand to mouth,' is said of a person who spends his money as fast as he gets it, who ea...
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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars.
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hand mast-spar
A round mast; those from Riga are commonly over 70 feet long by 20 inches diameter.
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lend a hand
A request to another to help.
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right-hand rope
That which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is to the right hand; the term is opposed to wa...
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washing the hand
A common hint on leaving a ship disliked.
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Mr. Hood's Iron Wharf
See Iron Wharf.
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Hand Alley, Philip Lane
See Hand Court.
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Hand and Crown Alley
North out of Holborn, opposite Holborn Bridge, between King's Arms Inn and Swan Inn, in Farringdon W...
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Hand and Crown Court
1) North-east out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-Boyle, 1799).
Remo...
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Hand and Pen Alley
On Great Tower Hill, within the Tower precincts (P.C. 1732-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Not named in the map...
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Hand and Pen Court
1) South out of Barbican, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
The site is now o...
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Stable Yard, Hand Alley
South out of Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Demolished towards the end of ...
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hand and pocket shop
An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for.
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Bird and Hand Alley, Court
In Cheapside (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
"Bird in Hand Alley" in Boyle.
See Bird in Hand Alley, Court...
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Bird in Hand Alley, Court
South out of Cheapside at No.76 (P.O. Directory). West of Bucklersbury, in Cheap Ward.
First mentio...
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Hand Yard, Chequer Yard, Dowgate
See Hand Court2.
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fresh hand at the bellows
Said when a gale freshens suddenly.
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Hand and Hatchet Alley, Tower Hill
See Hatchet Alley.
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