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Roll
·v Part; office; duty; role. II. Roll ·v That which rolls; a roller. III. Roll ·v A cylindrical tw...

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Roll
The common form of ancient books. The Hebrew word rendered "roll" or "volume" is meghillah, found in...

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roll
A uniform beat of the drum, without variation, for a considerable time. The divisions are summoned b...

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Roll
A book in ancient times consisted of a single long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually ke...

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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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Counter-roll
·noun A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll...

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Ragman's roll
·- The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance t...

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roll up
v. intr. to gather, to assemble. 1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 26: «The miners all rolled u...

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roll-up
n. a meeting. See preceding verb. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxv. p. 308: «Makin...

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easy roll
A vessel is said to "roll deep but easy" when she moves slowly, and not with quick jerks. ...

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fire-roll
A peculiar beat of the drum to order people to their stations on an alarm of fire. Summons to quarte...

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midshipman's roll
A slovenly method of rolling up a hammock transversely, and lashing it endways by one clue. ...

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muster-roll
A document kept by the master of every British vessel, specifying the name, age, quality, and countr...

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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-mould
A mould made to form the futtocks in the square body, assisted by the rising-square and floor-hollow...

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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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Tobacco Roll Court
West out of Gracechurch Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). The site i...

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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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roll up a sail, to
To hand it quickly. ...

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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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