bastard-pitch

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• Bastard

  ·vt To <<Bastardize>>. II. Bastard ·noun A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. III. Bastar...

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• Bastard

  In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word mamzer', which means "polluted." In Deut. 23:2...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bastard

  The child of an unmarried woman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bastard

  A term applied to all pieces of ordnance which are of unusual or irregular proportions: the governme...

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• Bastard

  Among those who were excluded from entering the congregation, even to the tenth generation, was the ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Pitch

  ·noun Height; stature. II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch. III. Pitch ·noun A desce...

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• Pitch

  (Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...

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• pitch

  Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence. It is used in a hot state with o...

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• Pitch

  The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...

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• bastard dory

  and John Dory (q.v.), spelt also Dorey n. an Australian fish, Cyttus australis,family Cyttidae; t...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bastard trumpeter

  n. a fish. See morwong, paper-fish, and trumpeter. In Sydney it is Latris ciliaris, Forst., which ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bastard-mackerel

  , or horse-mackerel The Caranx trachurus, a dry, coarse, and unwholesome fish, of the family Scomb...

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• Auction pitch

  ·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...

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• Pitch-black

  ·adj Black as pitch or tar. ...

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• Pitch-dark

  ·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. ...

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• Pitch-faced

  ·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...

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• Pitch-ore

  ·noun <<Pitchblende>>. ...

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• Tough-pitch

  ·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...

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• pitch-kettled

  Stuck fast, confounded. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pitch-boat

  A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...

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• pitch-house

  A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels. ...

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• pitch-kettle

  That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...

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• pitch-ladle

  Is used for paying decks and horizontal work. ...

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• pitch-mop

  The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work. ...

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• pitch-pine

  ♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.) ...

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• chewing of pitch

  See chewing of oakum ...

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• pitch in, to

  To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.) ...

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• devil to pay and no pitch hot

  The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

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