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Bowsprit
·noun A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail fo...

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bowsprit
The nose, from its being the most projecting part of the human face, as the bowsprit is of a ship. ...

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bowsprit
, or bolt-sprit A large spar, ranking with a lower-mast, projecting over the stem; beyond it exten...

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Cap
·vt To deprive of cap. II. Cap ·noun A covering for the head. III. Cap ·vt To salute by removing t...

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to cap
1) To take one's oath. I will cap downright; I will swear home. CANT. 2) To take off one's hat or c...

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to cap
To excel; to surpass. Ex. To cap all. Used in familiar language in New England. Mr. Hartshorne, in h...

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cap
, cob head, chief, or master. Cumb. ...

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cap
A strong thick block of wood having two large holes through it, the one square, the other round, use...

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bowsprit, running
In cutter-rigged vessels. (See cutter.) ...

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bowsprit-bitts
Are strong upright timbers secured to the beams below the deck; they have a cross-piece bolted to th...

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bowsprit-gear
A term denoting the ropes, blocks, &c., belonging to the bowsprit. ...

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bowsprit-heart
The heart or block of wood used to secure the lower end of the fore-stay, through which the inner en...

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bowsprit-horses
The ridge-ropes which extend from the bowsprit-cap to the knight-heads. ...

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bowsprit-ladder
Skids over the bowsprit from the beak-head in some ships, to enable men to run out upon the bowsprit...

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bowsprit-netting
The netting placed just above a vessel's bowsprit, for stowing away the fore-topmast staysail; it is...

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bowsprit-shrouds
Strong ropes or chains leading from nearly the outer end of the bowsprit to the luff of the bow, giv...

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running bowsprit
One which is used in revenue cutters and smacks; it can be reefed by sliding in, and has fid holes f...

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standing bowsprit
One that is fixed permanently in its place, not the running-in bowsprit of a cutter. ...

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Bishop's cap
·- A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. ...

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Flat-cap
·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...

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Phrygian cap
·add. ·- A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been con...

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Service cap
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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cap acquaintance
Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting. A woman w...

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custard cap
The cap worn by the sword-bearer of the city of London, made hollow at the top like a custard. ...

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hum cap
Very old and strong beer, called also stingo. See stingo. ...

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trencher cap
The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ...

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cap, to
To puzzle or beat in argument. To salute by touching the head-covering, as Shakspeare makes Iago's f...

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cap-scuttle
A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely...

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cap-shore
A supporting spar between the cap and the trestle-tree. ...

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cap-square
The clamp of iron which shuts over the trunnions of a gun to secure them to the carriage, having a c...

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monmouth cap
A flat worsted cap formerly worn by soldiers and sailors. In the old play Eastward Ho, it is said, "...

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night-cap
Warm grog taken just before turning in. ...

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priest's-cap
An outwork which has three salient angles at the head and two inwards. ...

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sea-cap
The white drift or breaks of a wave. White horses of trades. ...

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to cap the climax
is to surpass everything. A letter from Mexico, in speaking of the excesses of the American soldiers...

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butt-slinging a bowsprit
See slings. ...

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Cardinal Cap Alley, Cornhill
See Swan and Hoop Passage. ...

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screw-gammoning for the bowsprit
A chain or plate fastened by a screw, to secure a vessel's bowsprit to the stem-head, allowing for t...

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to set her cap for him
To direct her attentions to him; to endeavor to win his affections. Dr. Johnson notices the phrase, ...

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