Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards.
·noun ·sg & ·pl An old game resembling backgammon. II. Irish ·adj Of or pertaining to Ireland or to...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(See angle.) A fast-sailing vessel is said to have legs. ♦ Legs are used in cutters, yachts, &c., ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such...
Out of Glasshouse Yard, Goodman's Yard, Minories (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). Not named in the maps....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timbe...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A woman with two black eyes. ...
A false witness. ...
Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and other pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering the...
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef "Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
Rope-yarns hanging about on the rigging. Loose reef-points or gaskets flying about, or fag-ends of r...
·- Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or...
·- A millepid, or galleyworm; — called also thousand-legged worm. ...
In Cannon Street, 1655 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201). Not named in the maps. ...
Short legs. ...
n. name given to a millipede, Cermatia smithii. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
See cat-harpings ...
A name in the north for large herrings. ...
Implies the power to walk steadily on a ship's decks, notwithstanding her pitching or rolling. ...
A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...
a clasp knife. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See over-masted. ...
Small lines through the bolt-ropes of the courses, above a foot in length, and spliced at either end...