bad-berth

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• Berth

  ·noun Convenient sea room. II. Berth ·noun An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employme...

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• berth

  I. The station in which a ship rides at anchor, either alone, or in a fleet; as, she lies in a goo...

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• Bad

  ·- of <<Bid>>. II. Bad ·Impf <<Bade>>. III. Bad ·superl Wanting good qualities, whether physical o...

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• bad

  for Ill, as, I feel very bad to-day; also, for much. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• berth-deck

  The 'tween decks. ...

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• foul berth

  When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...

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• screen-berth

  Pieces of canvas temporarily hung round a berth, for warmth and privacy. (See berth.) ...

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• Bad lands

  ·- Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposi...

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• bad bargain

  One of his majesty's bad bargains; a worthless soldier, a malingeror. See malingeror. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bad box

  To be in a bad box, is to be in a bad predicament. I began to be afraid now I'd got into rather a b...

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• bad-name

  This should be avoided by a ship, for once acquired for inefficiency or privateer habits, it require...

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• bad-relief

  One who turns out sluggishly to relieve the watch on deck. (See one-bell.) ...

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• berth and space

  In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...

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• sick-berth attendant

  See loblolly-boy. ...

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• king's bad bargain

  One of the king's bad bargains; a malingeror, or soldier who shirks his duty. ...

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• shift a berth, to

  To move from one anchorage to another. ...

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• make bad weather, to

  A ship rolling, pitching, or leaking violently in a gale. ...

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• king's bargain: good or bad

  ; said of a seaman according to his activity and merit, or sloth and demerit. ...

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