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• Start

  ·vi A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. II. Start ·vi The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn ar...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• start

  n. The young Australian has a finecontempt for the English word to begin, which he neveruses where ...

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

• start

  a long handle of any thing ; a tail, as it signifies in Low Dutch ; so a RED-START is a bird with a ...

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

• start

  A long handle or tail; whence, by analogy, "start point." But sometimes applied by navigators to any...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Start-up

  ·noun A kind of high rustic shoe. II. Start-up ·adj <<Upstart>>. III. Start-up ·noun One who comes...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• the old start

  Newgate: he is gone to the start, or the old start. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose