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Ark
·noun A chest, or coffer. II. Ark ·noun A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transpo...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Ark
Noah's ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
ark
1) The common abbreviation for "Arkansas." 2) A large boat, used on some of the Western rivers, to ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
ark
a large chest; from the Latin word ARCA, Northumb. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
ark
The sacred and capacious vessel built by Noah for preservation against the flood. It was 300 cubits ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Ark shell
·- A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
ark ruffians
Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
noah's ark
Certain clouds elliptically parted, considered a sign of fine weather after rain. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Ark, Noahs
[Noah] ...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Ark Of Moses
A small boat or basket made of the papyrus, a reed which grows in the marshes of Egypt. It was cover...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Ark Of The Covenant
The first piece of the tabernacle's furniture, for which precise directions were delivered. Exod 25....

William Smith's Bible Dictionary