Newgate, or any other gaol: IRISH.
·noun The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained her ankle. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun A storehouse for wares, or goods. II. Warehouse ·vt To deposit or secure in a warehouse. III...
·vi A race; lineage. II. Spring ·vi A youth; a springal. III. Spring ·vi Elastic power or force. ...
(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A crack running obliquely through any part of a mast or yard, which renders it unsafe to carry the u...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An old seaman's term for the crawfish. ...
In Mincing Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·add. ·- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, ·etc. ...
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
In a steamer, a fore-and-aft beam for connecting the two paddle-beams, and supporting the outer end ...
One jagged or split at the point, thereby forming springs to prevent its drawing. ...
A steel-pronged tool to search for defects in the bore of a gun. ...
Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should t...
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
On the south side of Thames Street in O.S. 1880. In Vintry Ward. It occupied part of the site of Sh...
North out of Thames Street, between Beer Lane and Water Lane (Strype, 1720). It seems to be shown i...
See spring. ...