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Aloft
·prep Above; on top of. II. Aloft ·adv On high; in the air; high above the ground. III. Aloft ·adv...

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aloft
[Anglo-Saxon, alofte, on high]. Above; overhead; on high. Synonymous with up above the tops, at the ...

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Away
·adv From a place; hence. II. Away ·adv Aside; off; in another direction. III. Away ·adv From a st...

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hailing-aloft
To call to men in the tops and at the mast-head to "look out," too often an inconsistent bluster fro...

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hie aloft
Away aloft. ...

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'way aloft!
or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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Away-going
·adj Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; — said of cr...

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to spirit away
To kidnap, or inveigle away. ...

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to blaze away
To keep up a discharge of fire-arms. A good English phrase. The hunter (of the west) attacks the ol...

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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors. A well-known ...

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right away
Directly; immediately. ...

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away off
At a distance, but in sight. ...

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away there
The call for a boat's crew; as, "away there! barge-men." ...

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bowling away
See bolling away ...

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bolling or bowling away
Going with a free wind. ...

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cast-away
Shipwrecked. ...

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ease away!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall. ...

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fire-away
Go on with your remarks. ...

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fly-away
Fictitious resemblance of land; "Dutchman's cape," &c. (See cape fly-away.) ...

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here-away
A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter. ...

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lash away
A phrase to hasten the lashing of hammocks. ...

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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope. ♦ Pay down. Send che...

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right away!
It is a habit of seamen answering when a sail is discovered from the mast-head; "Right away on the b...

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there away!
A phrase accompanied by pointing on a bearing, or to an object in sight. Thereabout, in that quarter...

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walk away!
The order to step out briskly with a tackle fall, as in hoisting boats. ...

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where away?
In what bearing? a question to the man at the mast-head to designate in what direction a strange sai...

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low and aloft
Sail from deck to truck: "every stitch on her." ...

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away she goes
The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...

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

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cape fly-away
A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.) ...

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carry away, to
To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off. It is customary...

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ease away there!
,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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edge away, to
To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...

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north-away yawl
The old term for Norway yawl (which see). ...

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pull-away-boys
A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...

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wind away, to
To steer through narrow channels. ...

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

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

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veer away the cable, to
To slack and let it run out. ...

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

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fallen away from a horse load to a cart load
A saying on one grown fat. ...

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