Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale.
·noun A large sea nettle or medusa. II. Blubber ·noun A <<Bubble>>. III. Blubber ·vt To swell or d...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The mouth.--I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by ga...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside,...
The layer of fat in whales between the skin and the flesh, which is flinched or peeled off, and boil...
The Sailor's Word-Book
I. , or cheek-knees Pieces of compass-timber on the ship's bows, for the security of the beak-he...
·noun A <<Jellyfish>>. ...
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se. ...
Said of a large coarse woman, who exposes her bosom. ...
the frame of wood to which the door hangs, the door-posts. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A large rope stretched from the main to the fore mast head of whalers, to which the speck-falls are ...
A name given by old sailors to the sheaves instead of blocks on the yards in light-rigged vessels. ...
The implements with which blubber is "made off," or cut for stowing away. ...
The interior faces or sides of an embrasure. ...
The faces or projecting parts on each side of the masts, formed to sustain the trestle-trees upon wh...