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Basket
·vt To put into a basket. II. Basket ·noun The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. III. Basket...

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Basket
There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: 1) A basket (Heb. sal,...

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basket
An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or una...

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basket
In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, ...

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Basket
The Hebrew terms used in the description of this article are as follows: (1) Sal, so called from the...

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Ballast
·vt To keep steady; to steady, morally. II. Ballast ·vt To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy su...

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ballast
A certain portion of stone, pig-iron, gravel, water, or such like materials, deposited in a ship's h...

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Basket ball
·add. ·- A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to ...

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Buck-basket
·noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. ...

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Basket Makers
In 3 Ed. IV. they were allowed to have shops only in the Manor of Blanch Appleton (S. 151). The 52n...

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basket-making
The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children's stockings. ...

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bawdy basket
The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live...

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bread basket
The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow i...

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pin basket
The youngest child. ...

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basket-fence
n. Local name for a stake-hedge. See quotation. 1872. G. S. Baden-Powell, `New Homes for the Old C...

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basket-fish
A name for several species of Euryale; a kind of star-fish, the arms of which divide and subdivide m...

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basket-hilt
The guard continued up the hilt of a cutlass, so as to protect the whole hand from injury. ...

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Water ballast
·- Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. ...

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Ballast Office
See Old Trinity House. ...

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shifting ballast
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...

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ballast-lighter
A large flat-floored barge, for heaving up and carrying ballast. ...

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ballast-mark
The horizontal line described by the surface of the water on the body of a ship, when she is immerse...

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ballast-master
A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...

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ballast-ports
Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...

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ballast-shifting
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...

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ballast-shingle
Composed of coarse gravel. ...

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ballast-shooting
(See shoots.) In England, and indeed in most frequented ports, the throwing of ballast overboard is ...

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ballast-shovel
A peculiar square and spoon-pointed iron shovel. ...

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ballast-trim
When a vessel has only ballast on board. ...

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canting ballast
Is when by a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles ...

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ballast dredger
A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...

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pea-ballast
A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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shifting ballast
Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...

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water-ballast
Water when used to stiffen a ship, whether carried in casks, tanks, bags, or otherwise. The iron scr...

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hand basket portion
A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-...

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french the ballast
A term used for freshen the ballast. ...

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freshen the ballast
Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...

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jack in the basket
A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger. ...

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trench the ballast, to
To divide the ballast in a ship's hold to get at a leak, or to trim and stow it. ...

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wing up ballast, to
To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...

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