boatswain's store-room

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• captain's store-room

  A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores. ...

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• carpenter's store-room

  An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...

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• lieutenant's store-room

  More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see). ...

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• Store

  ·adj Accumulated; hoarded. II. Store ·vt Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or re...

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• store

  n. a bullock, cow, or sheep bought to befattened for the market. 1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion ...

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• store

  In the United States and Canada, shops of every kind for the sale of goods whether at wholesale or r...

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• Room

  ·adj Spacious; roomy. II. Room ·vi To occupy a room or rooms; to <<Lodge>>; as, they arranged to ro...

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• to room

  To occupy a room; to lodge.--Worcester. ...

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• room

  A name given to some reserved apartment in a ship, as ♦ The bread-room. In the aftermost part of t...

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• Room

  The references to "room" in (Matthew 23:6; Mark 12:39; Luke 14:7,8; 20:46) signify the highest place...

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• boatswain's mate

  Is an assistant to the boatswain, who had the peculiar command of the long-boat. He summons the watc...

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• boatswain's yeoman

  See yeoman. ...

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• Department store

  ·add. ·- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, ·esp. o...

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• Re-store

  ·vt To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored. ...

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• store-cattle

  n. lean cattle bought to befattened for the market; often contracted to stores (q.v.). 1885. R. M....

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• store pay

  Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...

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• store-keeper

  An officer in the royal dockyards, invested with the general charge of naval stores, as the sails, a...

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• store-ship

  A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores. ...

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• Amber room

  ·- A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and ...

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• By-room

  ·noun A private room or apartment. ...

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• Drawing-room

  ·noun The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawin...

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• Sea room

  ·- Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or...

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• Tiring-room

  ·noun The room or place where players dress for the stage. ...

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• Withdrawing-room

  ·noun A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. ...

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• elbow room

  Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged. ...

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• keeping-room

  A common sitting-room; the parlor in New England. The term is chiefly used in the interior, although...

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• state-room

  A small room in a ship or steam-vessel for one or two passengers.--Worcester. ...

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• bare-room

  An old phrase for bore-down. ...

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• bread-room

  The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head...

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• capstan-room

  See room. ...

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• cook-room

  , or cook-house. The galley or caboose containing the cooking apparatus, and where victuals are dr...

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• filling room

  Formerly a small place parted off and lined with lead, in a man-of-war magazine, wherein powder may ...

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• fish-room

  A space parted off by bulk-heads in the after-hold, now used for waste stores, but formerly used for...

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• gun-room

  A compartment on the after-end of the lower gun-deck of large ships of war, partly occupied by the j...

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• light-room

  In a ship-of-war, a small space parted off from the magazine, having double-glass windows for more s...

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• going room

  , room The old term for going large, or from, the wind. (See lask, to and large.) It is mentioned by...

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• sea-room

  Implies a sufficient distance from land, rocks, or shoals wherein a ship may drive or scud without d...

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• shell-room

  An important compartment in ships of war, fitted up with strong shelves to receive the shells when c...

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• slop-room

  The place appointed to keep the slops in, for the ship's company; generally well aft and dry. ...

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• spirit-room

  A place or compartment abaft the after-hold, to contain the ship's company's spirits. ...

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• state-room

  A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...

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• trade-room

  A part of the steerage of a Yankee notion-trader where light goods and samples of the cargo are kept...

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• turning-room

  Space in a narrow channel for a ship to work in. ...

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• ward-room

  The commissioned officers' mess-cabin, on the main-deck in ships of the line. ...

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• to set store by

  To value; esteem; regard. This sense of the word store is not noticed by the English or American lex...

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• bill of store

  A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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• dining room post

  A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham...

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• bread-room jack

  The purser's steward's help. ...

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• engine-room telegraph

  A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below. ...

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• marine clothing-room

  A compartment of the after-platform, to receive the clothes and stores of the royal marines. ...

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• timber and room

  , is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...

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• ward-room officers

  Those who mess in the ward-room, namely: the commander, lieutenants, master, chaplain, surgeon, paym...

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• Lombard Exchange and Reading Room

  On the south side of Lombard Street, about No. 40 (O.S. 1880). White Hart Yard and Quaker's Meeting...

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• jack in the bread-room

  , or jack in the dust. The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room. ...

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• lady of the gun-room

  A gunner's mate, who takes charge of the after-scuttle, where gunners' stores are kept. ...

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• well-room of a boat

  The place in the bottom where the water lies, between the ceiling and the platform of the stern-shee...

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• room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.

  Stealing poultry. ...

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