bluff | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Bluff
·noun A game at cards; poker. II. Bluff ·adj Surly; churlish; gruff; rough. III. Bluff ·vi To act ...

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bluff
1) A high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea.--Falconer's Marine Dic. In America i...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bluff
An abrupt high land, projecting almost perpendicularly into the sea, and presenting a bold front, ra...

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Bluff-bowed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. ...

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Bluff-headed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to bluff off
To put on a troublesome questioner, or dun, &c. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bluff-bowed
Applied to a vessel that has broad and flat bows that is, full and square-formed: the opposite of le...

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bluff-headed
When a ship has but a small rake forward on, being built with her stem too straight up. ...

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