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Stock
·vt To put in the stocks.
II. Stock ·noun The beater of a fulling mill.
III. Stock ·noun A race or...
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stock
A good stock; i.e. of impudence. Stock and block; the whole: he has lost stock and block.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stock
n.
The word has many meanings. In theone from which the Australian compounds are made, it denotesho...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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stock
Cattle in general; the cattle belonging to a farm. Provincial in the North of England.--Pegge's Glos...
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stock
cattle in general.
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Up
·prep <<Upon>>.
II. Up ·adv Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapon...
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Debenture stock
·add. ·- The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt se...
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Mahon stock
·- An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is call...
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Stock-blind
·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
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Stock-still
·adj Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
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Tool-stock
·noun The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.
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Treasury stock
·add. ·- Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
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Trustee stock
·add. ·- High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested.
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Stock Exchange
Between Throgmorton Street north and Threadneedle Street south, at No.23 Throgmorton Street (P.O. Di...
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live stock
Lice or fleas.
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stock drawers
Stockings.
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stock jobbers
Persons who gamble in Exchange Alley, by pretending to buy and sell the public funds, but in reality...
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stock-agent
n.
more usually in the form Stockand Station-agent. The circumstances of Australian life makethis a...
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stock-holder
n.
a grazier; owner of largeherds of cattle, or flocks of sheep.
1820. Lieut. Chas. Jeffreys, `Del...
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stock-horse
n.
horse accustomed to go aftercattle used in mustering and cutting-out (q.v.).
1874. W. H. L. Ran...
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stock-hut
n.
the hut of a stock-man.
1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. ii. c. ii. p. 21:
«We cross...
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stock-keep
v.
a quaint compound verb.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. x. p. 96(1890):
«`What ...
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stock-keeper
n.
equivalent to a shepherd,or herdsman.
1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government Notice,' June 30, 1...
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stock-man
n.
used in Australia for a manemployed to look after stock.
1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government ...
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stock-rider
n.
a man employed to look aftercattle, properly on an unfenced station.
1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush ...
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stock-riding
n.
the occupationof a Stock-rider (q.v.).
1880. Fison and Howitt, `Kamilaroi and Kurnai,' p. 260[F...
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stock-route
n.
When land is first let insurveyed blocks to a Squatter (q.v.), and is, of course,unfenced, the l...
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stock-whip
n.
whip for driving cattle.See quotations.
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100:
«The s...
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anchor-stock
A bar at the upper end of the shank, crossing the direction of the flukes transversely, to steady th...
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rudder-stock
The main piece of a rudder.
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stock-fish
Ling and haddock when sun-dried, without salt, were called stock-fish, and used in the navy, but are...
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Break-up
·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...
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Flare-up
·noun A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
II. Flare-up ·add. ·noun A sudden burst...
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Frame-up
·add. ·noun A conspiracy or plot, ·esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person ...
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Get-up
·noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; ...
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Higher-up
·add. ·noun A superior officer or official;
— used chiefly in ·pl
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Hunt's-up
·noun A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousi...
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Let-up
·noun Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
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Line-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>.
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Make-up
·noun The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is d...
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Making-up
·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
II. Making-up ·noun The act of bringing spirits t...
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Pick-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Pickup>>.
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Pricking-up
·noun The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once ...
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Put-up
·adj Arranged; plotted;
— in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals.
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Seven-up
·noun The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
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Start-up
·noun A kind of high rustic shoe.
II. Start-up ·adj <<Upstart>>.
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Steep-up
·adj Lofty and precipitous.
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Step-up
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...
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Stuck-up
·adj Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
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Take-up
·noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the...
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Tilt-up
·noun ·same·as Tip-up.
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Tip-up
·noun The spotted sandpiper;
— called also teeter-tail. ·see under <<Sandpiper>>.
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Up-line
·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...
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Up-over
·add. ·adj Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising i...
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Up-train
·- A train going in the direction conventionally called up.
II. Up-train ·- A train going in the di...
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Up-wind
·add. ·adv Against the wind.
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Wind-up
·add. ·noun Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
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back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, w...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bang up
(WHIP.)
Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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cooped up
Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop.
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dished up
He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twi...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern Term.
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to mop up
To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
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tucked up
Hanged. A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress.
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turned up
Acquitted; discharged.
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used up
Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedit...
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bail up
v.
1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking.
2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...
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hang up
v.
to tie up a horse.
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' p. 49 [Footnote]:
«In Melbourne there a...
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log up
v.
to make a log-support for thewindlass.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. v. p. 54:
«W...
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ready up
v.
See quotation.
1893. `The Age,' Nov. 25, p. 13, col. 2:
« Mr. Purees: A statement has been mad...
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roll up
v. intr.
to gather, to assemble.
1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 26:
«The miners all rolled u...
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roll-up
n.
a meeting. See preceding verb.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxv. p. 308:
«Makin...
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stick-up
v. tr.
1) The regular word for theaction of bushrangers stopping passers-by on the highway androbbi...
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sticker-up
I.
n. sc.
a bushranger.
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
«They had only just been liber...
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to brisk up
To come up with life and speed; to take an erect or bold attitude.--Webster. An Americanism.
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to brush up
To prepare oneself; to take courage.
When Miss Mary came, I brushed up, and was determined to have ...
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to chaw up
To use up; demolish.
I heerd Tom Jones swar he'd chaw me up, if an inch of me was found in them dig...
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to crack up
To crack, i. e. to brag or boast, is a verb common in old authors, from Chaucer downwards, and still...
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cuddle up
To hug or fondle. So used in some parts of England.
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to cut up
1) To criticise with severity; as, he was severely cut up in the newspapers.
Some correspondent ask...
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to fetch up
To stop suddenly. This sense of the word is not noticed in the English dictionaries, nor by Webster....
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to flare up
To blaze out; to get excited suddenly; to get into a passion.
It is expected that this grand discus...
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to hold up
In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining.
Though nice and dark the p...
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to knock up
To wear out with fatigue.--Halliwell.
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to pony up
A vulgar phrase, meaning to pay over money. Ex. 'Come, Mr. B----, pony up that account;' that is, pa...
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
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to serve up
To expose to ridicule; to expose.
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to shut up
To hold one's tongue. A vulgar expression.
Jones was singing, "'Tis the Star Spangled Banner;" but ...
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to slick up
To dress up; to make fine.
Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk sh...
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to spruce up
To dress oneself sprucely. In Sussex (England) they say, to sprug up, in the same sense.
To-night w...
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to square up
To put oneself in an attitude fit for boxing. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.
Y...
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to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson.
Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't...
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to tip up
To raise up one end, as of a cart, so that the contents may pass out.--Worcester. Both this and the ...
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to use up
To discomfit; destroy. Grose has this word, which he calls a military one, meaning killed.
I have p...
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to wind up
To close up; to give the quietus to an antagonist in a debate; to effectually demolish.
John Bell, ...
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
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build up
To erect; and metaphorically to establish, to found.
In this manner it was thought we should sooner...
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buttoning up
A Wall street phrase. When a broker has bought stock on speculation and it falls suddenly on his han...
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chock up
Close, tight; said of a thing which fits closely to another.
When the bells ring, the wood-work the...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagance.--Grose. We use it colloquially, where a person is ruined in any w...
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let up
A let up is a release; a relief. An expression borrowed from pugilists.
There was no let up in the ...
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pertend up
Better; more cheerful.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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pick-up
A pick-up, or a pick-up dinner, is a dinner made up of such fragments of cold meats as remain from f...
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tilt-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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tip-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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up to
To be up to a thing,' is to understand it. A common English and American vulgarism.
Have you ever t...
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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brail up!
The order to pull upon the brails, and thereby spill and haul in the sail. The mizen, or spanker, or...
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breezing up
The gale freshening.
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bringers up
The last men in a boarding or small-arm party. Among soldiers, it means the whole last rank of a bat...
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broke-up
Said of a gale of wind passing away; or a ship which has gone to pieces on a reef, &c.
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bundle-up!
The call to the men below to hurry up on deck.
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chock-up
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c.
Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
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clue up!
The order to clue up the square sails.
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dock up
, or duck up
To clue up a corner of a sail that hinders the helmsman from seeing.
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drawing up
Adjusting a ship's station in the line; the converse of dropping astern.
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drifting-up
Is used as relating to sands which are driven by the winds. As at Cape Blanco, on the coast of Afric...
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duck-up!
A term used by the steersman when the main-sail, fore-sail, or sprit-sail hinders his seeing to stee...
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fly-up
A sudden deviation upwards from a sheer line; the term is nearly synonymous with flight.
♦ To fly ...
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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jiggered-up
Done up; tired out.
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laid up
A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further ...
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rounding-up
Is to haul through the slack of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular direction, without sustainin...
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setting-up
Raising a ship from her blocks, shores, &c., by wedges driven between the heels of the shore and the...
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set up
Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in...
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sharp up
Trimmed as near as possible to the wind, with the yards braced up nearly fore and aft.
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standing up
A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas.
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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take-up
The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes...
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tumble up!
A requisition of the boatswain's mates, &c., to quicken the hands after being piped up. The cry is w...
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up along
Sailing from the mouth of the channel upwards.
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up anchor
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station.
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up boats!
The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits.
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up courses!
The order to haul them up by the clue-garnets, &c.
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up screw!
The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail.
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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wedging up
Gaining security by driving wedges.
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working up
The keeping men at work on needless matters, beyond the usual hours, for punishment.
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anchor-stock-fashion
The method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks...
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anchor-stock tackle
A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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London Joint Stock Bank
1) On the west side of Princes Street at No. 5 (Head Office) (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward....
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lock, stock, and barrel
The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun.
Look at ...
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lock, stock, and barrel
An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole.
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stock of an anchor
A cross-beam of wood, or bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank at right angles with the...
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Pick-me-up
·add. ·noun A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer.
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Setting-up exercise
·add. ·- Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose o...
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Up-to-date
·add. ·adj Extending to the present time; having style, manners, knowledge, or other qualities that ...
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hang it up
Score it up: speaking of a reckoning.
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lock up house
A spunging house; a public house kept by sheriff's officers, to which they convey the persons they h...
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bailing-up pen
n.
place for fastening up cattle.
1889. R. M. Praed, `Romance of Station,' vol. i. c. ii.[`Eng. Di...
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full up of
adj. (slang)
sick and tired of.«Full on,» and «full of,» are other forms.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `...
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pick-it-up
n.
a boys' name for the Diamondbird (q.v.).
1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in CentralAus...
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the jig is up
i. e. the game is up; it is all over with me.
The time was when I could cut pigeon wings, and perfo...
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to break up land
To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...
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to cut up shines
To cut capers, play tricks.
A wild bull of the prairies was cutting up shines at no great distance,...
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...
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to pull up stakes
To pack up one's furniture or baggage preparatory to a removal; to remove.
If this stranger is to r...
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catawamptiously chawed up
Completely demolished, utterly defeated. One of the ludicrous monstrosities in which the vulgar lang...
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met up with
for overtook.--Sherwood's Georgia.
Mich. The common abbreviation fur Michigan.
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up-a-day
A fondling expression of a nurse to a child, when she takes it up in her arms, or lifts it over some...
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up to snuff
To be flash; to be shrewd. Up to snuff and a pinch above it, is a common cant phrase.--Grose. Both t...
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up to trap
Knowing; shrewd. English and American.
Phrenology is a little bit dangerous. It is only fit for an ...
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ripping one up
telling him all his faults, Exm.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blow up, to
To abuse angrily.
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break-up, to
To take a ship to pieces when she becomes old and unserviceable.
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bring up, to
To cast anchor.
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built-up guns
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
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ease up, to
To come up handsomely with a tackle-fall.
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hike up, to
To kidnap; to carry off by force.
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hold up, to
In meteorological parlance, for the weather to clear up after a gale; to stop raining.
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shin up, to
To climb up a rope or spar without the aid of any kind of steps.
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silt-up, to
To be choked with mud or sand, so as to obstruct vessels.
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sway up, to
To apply a strain on a mast-rope in order to lift the spar upwards, so that the fid may be taken out...
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truss up, to
To brail up a sail suddenly; to toss up a bunt.
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up and down
The situation of the cable when it has been hove in sufficiently to bring the ship directly over the...
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lay in sea-stock, to
To make provision for the voyage.
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casting up one's accounts
Vomiting.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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laid up in lavender
Pawned.
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up to their gossip
To be a match for one who attempts to cheat or deceive; to be on a footing, or in the secret. I'll b...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to hang up one's fiddle
To desist; to give up.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to row up salt river
is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...
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hurry up the cakes
i.e. Be quick; look alive. This phrase, which has lately got into vogue, originated in the common Ne...
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up to the hub
To the extreme point. The figure is that of a vehicle sunk in the mud up to the hub of the wheels, w...
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right up and down
Said in a dead calm, when the wind is no way at all. Or, in anchor work, when the cable is in that c...
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set up rigging, to
To take in the slack of the shrouds, stays, and backstays, to bring the same strain as before, and t...
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sheer up alongside, to
To approach a ship or other object in an oblique direction.
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toss the oars up!
Throw them up out of the rowlocks, and raise them perpendicularly an-end; the act is intended as a c...
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trice up lie out!
The order to lift the studding-sail boom-ends while the top-men move out on the yards, preparatory t...
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up-and-down tackle
A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...
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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...
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wing up ballast, to
To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...
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work up junk, to
To draw yarns from old cables, &c., and therewith to make foxes, points, gaskets, sinnet, or spun-ya...
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