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Dumb
·vt To put to silence.
II. Dumb ·adj Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
III. Dumb ·adj D...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dumb
From natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Arm
·noun A branch of a tree.
II. Arm ·noun Anything resembling an arm.
III. Arm ·noun An inlet of wat...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Arm
Used to denote power (Ps. 10:15; Ezek. 30:21; Jer. 48:25). It is also used of the omnipotence of God...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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arm
A deep and comparatively narrow inlet of the sea. That part of an anchor on which the palm is shut. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dumb-bell
·noun A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dumb-waiter
·noun A framework on which dishes, food, ·etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to anot...
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dumb-founded
Silenced, also soundly beaten.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dumb glutton
A woman's privities.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dumb watch
A venereal bubo in the groin.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dumb-founded
Stupefied; struck dumb with fear and confusion. This word is in the English provincial glossaries an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dumb-founded
perplexed, confounded. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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dumb-chalder
A metal cleat bolted to the back of the stern-post for one of the pintles to rest upon, to lessen bo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dumb-cleat
Synonymous with dumb-chalder and thumb-cleat.
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dumb-craft
Lighters, lumps, or punts, not having sails. Also, a name for the screws used for lifting a ship on ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dumb-pintle
A peculiar rudder-strap. (See pintles.)
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dumb-scraping
Scraping wet decks with blunt scrapers.
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Arm-gret
·adj Great as a man's arm.
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Over-arm
·adj Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. ·see <<Overhard>>.
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Proof-arm
·vt To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.
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Round-arm
·adj Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
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Under-arm
·adj Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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abeam-arm
For this curved timber, see fork-beams.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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arm-chest
A portable locker on the upper deck or tops for holding arms, and affording a ready supply of cutlas...
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arm-rack
A frame or fitting for the stowage of arms (usually vertical) out of harm's way, but in readiness fo...
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beam-arm
Synonymous with crow-foot (which see).
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yard-arm
That part of a yard outside the quarter, which is on either side of the mast beyond the battens, whe...
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yard-arm and yard-arm
The situation of two ships lying alongside one another, so near that their yard-arms nearly touch ea...
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repeating fire-arm
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...
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small-arm men
Those of the crew selected and trained to the use of small-arms. When they have effected their board...
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yard-arm cleats
Wooden wedges fixed on the yards at those points where they support the lifts and braces, and where ...
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yard-arm piece
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ducking at the yard-arm
A marine punishment unknown, except by name, in the British navy; but formerly inflicted by the Fren...
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