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Crook
·noun A <<Pothook>>. II. Crook ·noun Any implement having a bent or crooked end. III. Crook ·noun ...

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crook
Sixpence. ...

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Elbow
·vi To push rudely along; to elbow one's way. II. Elbow ·vt To push or hit with the elbow, as when ...

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Your
·pron & ·adj The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. ...

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elbow
That part of a river where it suddenly changes its direction, forming a reach to the next angle or t...

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Throw-crook
·noun An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. ...

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crook back
Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE. ...

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crook shanks
A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-...

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crook-lug
a long pole with a hook at the end of it, used for pulling down dead branches of trees. Glou. ...

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racking crook
a crane, or pot-hook. Northumb. ...

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Elbow Lane
Identified with College Street and Little College Street (q.v.). Its earlier name was "Eldebowe Lane...

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elbow grease
Labour. Elbow grease will make an oak table shine. ...

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elbow room
Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged. ...

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elbow shaker
A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice. ...

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elbow-grease
Persevering exercise of the arms, exciting perspiration; hard rubbing.--Glossaries of Brockett and C...

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elbow-grease
Hard labour with the arms. ...

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Great Elbow Lane
See College Street. ...

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Little Elbow Lane
See Little College Street. ...

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bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. ...

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cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego. ...

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sluice your gob
Take a hearty drink. ...

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blind-your-eyes
n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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keep your luff
An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

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top your boom
See boom. ...

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elbow in the hawse
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...

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lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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lay or lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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toss in your oars!
The order to desist rowing, and throw the oars in out of the rowlocks. ...

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by hook or by crook
One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson. It can't be done by hook or crook, Unless your Highn...

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lend us your pound here!
A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...

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