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blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blow
·noun The spouting of a whale.
II. Blow ·vt To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
III. Blow ·vi T...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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blow
He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blow
I.
n.
stroke of the shears in sheep-shearing.
1890. `The Argus,' September 20, p. 13, col. 7:
«T...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to blow
1) To taunt; to ridicule.
2) To turn informer on an accomplice.
BLOW
3) A gale of wind. Ex. A hea...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow
I.
Applied to the breathing of whales and other cetaceans. The expired air from the lungs being hi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pipe
·noun The key or sound of the voice.
II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore.
III. Pipe ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe
(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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pipe
n.
an obsolete word, explained inquotations.
1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105:
«These w...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pipe
A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pipe
(Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Blow valve
·- ·see Snifting valve.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blow-off
·adj as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
II. Blow-off ·noun A blowing off steam, water, ·etc.;.
III. Blow...
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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By-blow
·noun An illegitimate child; a bastard.
II. By-blow ·noun A side or incidental blow; an accidental ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to blow over
Said properly of a storm; and hence generally, to pass away without effect. This metaphor is very co...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow-milk
skimmed milk, perhaps blue milk ; milk when closely skimmed being of a blueish colour. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blow home
The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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blow-valve
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced.
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Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blast pipe
·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flue pipe
·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe clay
·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe layer
·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc.
II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe laying
·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc.
II. Pipe laying ·- The act ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe line
·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pipe-line
·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.
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Soil pipe
·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
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Twire-pipe
·noun A vagabond musician.
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Water pipe
·- A pipe for conveying water.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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The Pipe Yard
1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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clyster pipe
A nick name for an apothecary.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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quail-pipe
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whore pipe
The penis.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pipe-fish
n.
common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pipe-laying
This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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swine-pipe
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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chain-pipe
An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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deck-pipe
An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker.
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eduction pipe
A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...
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gas-pipe
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle.
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hawse-pipe
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood.
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injection-pipe
This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...
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pipe-clay
Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship.
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pipe-fish
A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth.
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steam-pipe
See waste steam-pipe.
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Blow Bladder Street
North-west from Cheapside to Newgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to blow the grounsils
To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to blow the gab
To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blow off, to
To clear up in the clouds.
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blow the gaff
To reveal a secret; to expose or inform against a person.
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blow-through valve
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
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blow up, to
To abuse angrily.
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Old Pipe Yard
South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
"The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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automatic blow-off apparatus
See blow-off-pipe.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly.
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