boom-irons

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  A ship is said to be in irons when, by mismanagement, she is permitted to come up in the wind and lo...

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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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• Barking irons

  ·- A pair of pistols. II. Barking irons ·- Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. ...

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• Tue-irons

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• barking irons

  Pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. IRISH. ...

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• grappling irons

  Handcuffs. ...

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• brand-irons

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• cob-irons

  brand-irons. ...

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• angle-irons

  Certain strips of iron having their edges turned up at an angle to each other; they are of various s...

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• barking-irons

  Large duelling pistols. ...

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• caulking-irons

  The peculiar chisels used for the purpose of caulking: they are the caulking-iron, the making-iron, ...

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• guard-irons

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• priming-irons

  Consist of a pointed wire used through the vent to prick the cartridge when it is "home," and of a f...

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• rudder-irons

  The pintles, gudgeons, and braces of the rudder are frequently so called, though they were usually o...

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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-cover

  The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

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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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