A smaller kind of companion, but readily removable; it is in use for merchantmen's half decks, and lifts off in one piece.
·noun A dunce; a stupid fellow. II. Booby ·noun A species of penguin of the antarctic seas. III. B...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow. See clod hopper and lout. A bitch booby; a country ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
n. English bird-name. Used in Australiafor the Brown-Gannet. See Gannet. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
A well-known tropical sea-bird, Sula fusca, of the family Pelecanidæ. It is fond of resting out of t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate. II. Hatch ·noun A <<Bedstead>>. III. Hatch ·noun Development;...
A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See heck.) ...
A country wench. Military term. ...
A one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle. ...
·noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries...
To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in S...
To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed. ...
A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches. ...
Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...
Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them. ...
A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary. ...
The beating of the hands from side to side in cold weather to create artificial warmth. ...
A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...