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Bulk
·noun The <<Body>>. II. Bulk ·v A projecting part of a building. III. Bulk ·noun The cargo of a ve...

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bulk
In bulk; things stowed without cases or packages. (See bulk-heads and laden in bulk.) ...

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Break
·noun ·see <<Commutator>>. II. Break ·vi To fall out; to terminate friendship. III. Break ·vi To b...

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break
1) to break, to tear. Harnp. In this county break is used for tear, and tear for break ; as, I have ...

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break
The sudden rise of a deck when not flush; when the aft, and sometimes the fore part, of a vessel's d...

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barrel-bulk
A measure of capacity for freight in a ship, equal to five cubic feet: so that eight barrel-bulk are...

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bulk-heads
Partitions built up in several parts of a ship, to form and separate the various cabins from each ot...

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Break-circuit
·noun A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. ...

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Break-up
·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...

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Hammer break
·add. ·- An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating ham...

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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces. ...

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Wind-break
·noun A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. II. Wind-break ·vt To br...

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break, to
To deprive of commission, warrant, or rating, by court-martial. ...

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break-beams
Beams introduced at the break of a deck, or any sudden termination of planking. ...

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break-ground
Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom. On shore it means to begin the works for ...

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break-off
(See broken-off) "She breaks off from her course," applied only when the wind will not allow of ke...

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break-water
Any erection or object so placed as to prevent the sea from rolling inwards. Where there is no mole ...

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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. ...

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bulk-head, the
Afore, is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head, and in which are the chase-...

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compartment bulk-heads
Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...

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laden in bulk
A cargo neither in casks, bales, nor cases, but lying loose in the hold, only defended from wet by m...

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stowed in bulk
See bulk. ...

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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. ...

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break-teeth words
Hard words, difficult to pronounce. ...

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to break up land
To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...

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break-sheer, to
When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...

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break-up, to
To take a ship to pieces when she becomes old and unserviceable. ...

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sheer, to break
To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...

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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...

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bulk of a ship
Implies the whole cargo when stowed in the hold. ...

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break one's horn-book
to incur displeasure. South. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose