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Cover
·noun The lap of a slide valve. II. Cover ·vt To put the usual covering or headdress on. III. Cove...

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cover
pronounced CAUVER. An abbreviation of RECOVER. North. Cow, the moving top of the chimney of a hop-oa...

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cover
Security from attack or interruption, as under cover of the ship's guns, under cover of the parapet....

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Boom
·vi To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. II. Boom ·noun A pole with a conspicuous top, se...

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boom
A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particula...

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Cover crop
·add. ·- A catch crop planted, ·esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as ...

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Cover-point
·noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point.". ...

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Cover-shame
·noun Something used to conceal infamy. ...

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casing-cover
In the marine steam-engine is a steam-tight opening for the slide-valve rod to pass through. ...

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cylinder-cover
In the steam-engine, is a metal lid with a hole in the centre for the piston-rod to work through. ...

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Gib boom
·- ·see Jib boom. ...

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Torpedo boom
·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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boom along
To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...

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bentinck-boom
That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly...

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boom-boats
Those stowed on the booms. ...

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boom-irons
Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...

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boom-jigger
A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...

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boom-mainsail
See main-sail. ...

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driver-boom
The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...

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jib-boom
A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...

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main-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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swinging-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in ...

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boom-brace pendant
A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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flying jib-boom
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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guest-warp boom
A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...

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square-sail boom
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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studding-sail boom
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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top your boom
See boom. ...

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top a boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...

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