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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...
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Sand
·noun Courage; pluck; grit.
II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand.
III. Sand ·noun A single particle...
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Basking shark
·- One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in...
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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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carpet-shark
n. i.q. wobbegong (q.v.)
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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...
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jack-shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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johnny shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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Sand-blind
·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
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Sand-lot
·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sand Wharf
See Wheatsheaf Wharf.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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sand-lark
n.
name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm.
1867. W. Richa...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sand-stay
n.
a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sand-flea
(Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sand-galls
spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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sand-streak
See garboard-strake
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quick-sand
A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...
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sand-bags
Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...
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sand-drifts
Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c.
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sand-hills
Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....
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sand-hopper
A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches.
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sand-launce
♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand.
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sand-piper
A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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sand-strake
A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake.
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sand-warpt
Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood.
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shifting sand
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
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sand glass
See short-time
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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...
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rope of sand
A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...
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sand and coral bank
An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...
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