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• Binnacle

  ·noun A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show ...

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• binnacle

  (formerly BITTACLE) It appears evidently to be derived from the French term habittacle, a small ha...

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• Bearing

  ·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. II. Bearing ·noun Purport; meaning; intended ...

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• bearing

  An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discov...

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• binnacle word

  A fine or affected word, which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• binnacle-light

  The lamp throwing light upon the compass-card. ...

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• Bearing cloth

  ·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. ...

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• Bearing rein

  ·- A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; — called in th...

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Roller bearing

  ·add. ·- A bearing containing friction rollers. ...

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• Rush-bearing

  ·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...

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• gold-bearing

  verbal adj. auriferous. 1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13: «A new line of gold-bearing quartz...

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

• bearing backstays aft

  To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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• line of bearing

  A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...

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