slush bucket

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• slush-bucket

  A bucket kept in the tops, to grease the masts, sheets, &c., to make all run smoothly. ...

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• Slush

  ·noun Soft mud. II. Slush ·noun A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow. III. Slush ·vt To p...

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• slush

  Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• slush

  1) Grease or fat from salt meat.--Worcester. The refuse grease from cooking on board ship, which is ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• slush

  The fat of the boiled meat in the coppers, formerly the perquisite of the ship's cook. Also applied ...

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• Bucket

  ·noun The valved piston of a lifting pump. II. Bucket ·add. ·vt To ride (a horse) hard or merciless...

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• Bucket

  A vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:...

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• bucket

  To kick the bucket; to die. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bucket

  A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers. ...

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• slush-lamp

  n. a lamp made by filling an oldtin with fat and putting a rag in for wick. The word, thoughnot excl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• slush-ice

  The first layer which forms when the surface is freezing. ...

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• Bucket shop

  ·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stock...

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• bucket-rope

  That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside. ...

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• bucket-valve

  In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...

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• to kick the bucket

  To die. He kicked the bucket one day: he died one day. To kick the clouds before the hotel door; i.e...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kick the bucket, to

  To expire; an inconsiderate phrase for dying. ...

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