all

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The total quantity; quite; wholly.


♦ All aback, when all the sails are taken aback by the winds.

♦ All ahoo, or all-a-ugh, confused; hanging over; crooked.

♦ All-a-taunt-o, a ship fully rigged, with masts in and yards crossed.

♦ All hands, the whole ship's company.

♦ All hands ahoy, the boatswain's summons for the whole crew to repair on deck, in distinction from the watch.

♦ All hands make sail! the cheering order when about to chase a strange vessel.

♦ All hands to quarters! the call in armed merchantmen, answering to the Beat to quarters in a man-of-war.

♦ All in the wind, when a vessel's head is too close to the wind, so that all her sails are shivering.

♦ All over, resemblance to a particular object, as a ship in bad kelter: "she's a privateer all over."

♦ All overish, the state of feeling when a man is neither ill nor well, restless in bed and indifferent to meals. In the tropics this is considered as the premonitory symptom of disease, and a warning which should be looked to.

♦ All ready, the answer from the tops when the sails are cast loose, and ready to be dropped.

♦ All standing, fully equipped, or with clothes on. To be brought up all standing, is to be suddenly checked or stopped, without any preparation.

♦ Paid off all standing, without unrigging or waiting to return stores; perhaps recommissioned the next day or hour.

♦ All's well, the sentry's call at each bell struck (or half hour) between the periods of broad daylight, or from 8 P.M. to 4 A.M.

♦ All to pieces, a phrase used for out-and-out, extremely, or excessively; as, "we beat her in sailing all to pieces."

♦ All weathers, any time or season; continually.

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