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Reef
·noun A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding...

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reef
I. n. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or...

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reef
A certain portion of a sail comprehended between the head of a sail and any of the reef-bands. The i...

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Bag
·vi To become pregnant. II. Bag ·vi To swell with arrogance. III. Bag ·noun The quantity of game b...

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Bag
1) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23...

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bag
He gave them the bag, i.e. left them. ...

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bag
A commercial term of quantity; as, a bread or biscuit bag, a sand-bag, &c. An empty purse. ♦ To ba...

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Bag
is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments. • Charitim, the "bags" in which Na...

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Reef-band
·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...

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balance-reef
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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reef-band
A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...

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reef-cringles
See cringle. ...

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reef-earings
See earings. ...

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reef-knot
Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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reef-line
Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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reef-pendant
A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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reef-points
Small flat pieces of plaited cordage or soft rope, tapering from the middle towards each end, whose ...

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reef-tackles
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...

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shore reef
The same as fringing reef. ...

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spanish reef
The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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Bag net
·- A bag-shaped net for catching fish. ...

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Ditty-bag
·noun A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, ·etc.; — also called sailor's housewife. ...

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Duffel bag
·add. ·- A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like. ...

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Farding-bag
·noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. ...

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Honey-bag
·noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. ...

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Telescope bag
·add. ·- An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other. ...

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green bag
An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they h...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
louse bag
A black bag worn to the hair or wig. ...

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nose bag
A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their...

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shag-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

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shake-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

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chewgah-bag
n. Queensland aboriginalpigeon-English for Sugar-bag (q.v.). ...

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dilly-bag
See dilli ...

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sugar-bag
n. nest of honey, and the honey. 1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67: «Th...

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badger-bag
The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line. ...

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bag, the
Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...

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ditty-bag
Derives its name from the dittis or Manchester stuff of which it was once made. It is in use among s...

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fernan bag
A small ditty-bag, often worn by sailors, for holding tobacco and other things. They have applied th...

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lull-bag
A wide canvas hose in whalers for conducting blubber into the casks, as it is "made off." ...

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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used. ...

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bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

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bag and baggage
The whole movable property. ...

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hands reef top-sails!
The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to ...

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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...

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bag, of the head-rails
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...

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