to speak with

Related Words

• Speak

  ·vi To give sound; to <<Sound>>. II. Speak ·vt To <<Address>>; to <<Accost>>; to speak to. III. Sp...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• speak

  Any thing stolen. He has made a good speak; he has stolen something considerable. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• With

  ·noun ·see <<Withe>>. II. With ·prep To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contras...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• with

  An iron instrument fitted to the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• gone with

  for become of. 'What is gone with it' 'or with him,' for What has become of it or him?--Sherwood's G...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• great with

  Intimate with; high in favor with.--Craven Glossary. Dr. Webster notices this word in the same sense...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• speak a vessel, to

  To pass within hail of her for that purpose. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• met up with

  for overtook.--Sherwood's Georgia. Mich. The common abbreviation fur Michigan. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bating with child

  breeding, gravid. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• beating with child

  breeding. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• away with it

  The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fell in with

  Met by chance. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• parrel with trucks

  Is composed of a single rope passing through a number of bull's-eye trucks, sufficient to embrace th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• will, with a

  With all zeal and energy. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• with a will

  Pull all together. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• with the sun

  Ropes coiled from the left hand towards the right; but where the sun passes the meridian north of th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• beast with two backs

  A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat-with-two-tails

  an earwig. Northum. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• joy go with thee!

  a favourable wish ; sometimes used ironically. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• down with the helm!

  An order to put the helm a-lee. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fall in with, to

  To meet, when speaking of a ship; to discover, when speaking of the land. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ready with the lead!

  A caution when the vessel is luffed up to deaden her way, followed by "heave." ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• run away with it!

  The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• up with the helm

  Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Swan with Two Necks Inn

  1) In Great Carter Lane, opposite Dean's Court, from No.4 St. Paul's Churchyard (Lockie, 1816). Not...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• close with the land, to

  To approach near to it. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• give way with a will

  Pull heartily together. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• half an eye, seeing with

  Discerning instantly and clearly. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• parrel with ribs and trucks

  , or jaw parrels. This is formed by passing the two parts of the parrel-rope through the two holes...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• run away with her anchor

  Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• tarred with the same brush

  Equivalent to "birds of a feather." ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• walking away with the anchor

  Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• staggering bob, with his yellow pumps

  A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bring up with a round turn

  Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• make free with the land, to

  To approach the shore closely. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hook and snivey, with nix the buffer

  This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• moor with a spring on the cable, to

  See spring. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• At the junction of Aldgate High Street with Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street (S. 140-O.S. 1875).

  Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site. There was a well called " Alegate well...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.