bend-mould

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• Mould

  ·vt To cover with mold or soil. II. Mould ·noun Cast; form; shape; character. III. Mould ·noun A <...

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• Bend

  ·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind. II. Bend ·noun A <<Band>>. III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclin...

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• bend

  1) a border of a woman's cap. N.; perhaps from BAND. 2) see ben ...

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• bend

  The chock of the bowsprit. ...

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• mould-warp

  the same ; from the Low Dutch, WORPEN, to cast forth, and MOLDE, earth. N. ...

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• bullet-mould

  An implement for casting bullets. ...

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• counter-mould

  The converse of mould (which see). ...

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• hollow-mould

  The same as floor-hollow (which see). ...

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• mould-loft

  A long building, on the floor of which the intended vessel is laid off from the several draughts in ...

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• sheer-mould

  Synonymous with ram-line (which see). ...

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• yarra-bend

  n. equivalent to the English word Bedlam. The first lunatic asylum of the colony ofVictoria stood n...

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• bend-kitt

  a kind of great can with a cover. N. ...

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• bend, to

  To fasten one rope to another, or to an anchor. The term is also applied to any sudden or remarkable...

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• bend-roll

  A rest formerly used for a heavy musket. ...

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• bowline-bend

  The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...

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• carrick-bend

  A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then pass...

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• fisherman's bend

  A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots. Its main use is for bending studding-halliards ...

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• granny's bend

  The slippery hitch made by a lubber. ...

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• sheet-bend

  A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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• slip-bend

  When a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or overboard. ...

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• Big Bend State

  ·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

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• above one's bend

  Out of one's power; beyond reach. A common expression in the Western States. I shall not attempt to...

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• bend on the tack

  In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...

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• side out for a bend, to

  The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...

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• try back for a bend, to

  To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. ...

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