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Break
·noun ·see <<Commutator>>.
II. Break ·vi To fall out; to terminate friendship.
III. Break ·vi To b...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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 ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ground
·noun The pit of a theater.
II. Ground ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Grind.
III. Ground ·vt To lay, set, or r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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-bulk
To open the hold, to begin unloading and disposing of the goods therein, under legal provisions.
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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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Burying ground
·- ·Alt. of Burying place.
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Middle-ground
·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
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Teeing ground
·add. ·- The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.
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Winter-ground
·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...
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Fallow-ground
The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed am...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Parched ground
(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Artillery Ground
See Old Artillery Ground.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ground Rentes
Tenements so called in High Holborn 1564 (Lond. I. p.m. II 142, 96).
Not further identified.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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ground sweat
A grave.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ground squirrel
A hog, or pig.
SEA TERM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ground-berry
i.q. cranberry (q.v.).:
See cranberry, native
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-bird
n.
name given in Australia to anybird of the genus Cinclosoma. The species are – – Chestnut-backed ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-dove
n.
1) Tasmanian namefor the Spotted Ground-bird (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-lark
n.
1) In New Zealand, a bird alsocalled by the Maori names, Pihoihoi and Hioi.
1888. W. L. Buller,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-parrakeet
n.
See parrakeet and pezoporus.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-parrot
n.
1) The bird Psittacuspulchellus, Shaw. For the Ground Parrot of New Zealand,see Kakapo.
1793. G...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-thrush
n.
name of birds found all overthe world. The Australian species are – – Geocincla lunulata, Lath.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ground-sill
the threshold of a door. C. Ground ivy.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hover ground
light ground. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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vantage-ground
See advantage
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fishing-ground
Any bank or shoal frequented by fish.
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foul ground
Synonymous with foul bottom.
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ground, to
To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident.
♦ To stri...
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ground-bait
, or groundling.
A loach or loche.
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ground-gru
See anchor-ice.
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ground-gudgeon
A little fish, the Cobitis barbatula.
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ground-ice
See anchor-ice.
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ground-plot
See ichnography.
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ground-sea
The West Indian name for the swell called rollers, or in Jamaica the north sea. It occurs in a calm,...
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ground-strake
A name sometimes used for garboard-strake.
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ground-swell
A sudden swell preceding a gale, which rises along shore, often in fine weather, and when the sea be...
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ground-tackle
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...
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ground-tier
The lowest water-casks in the hold before the introduction of iron tanks. It also implies anything e...
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ground-timbers
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson.
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ground-ways
The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...
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losing ground
Dropping to leeward while working; the driftage.
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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break-teeth words
Hard words, difficult to pronounce.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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Bethlem Burying Ground
On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New Broad Street, on the western boundary of Bisho...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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New Artillery Ground
In Moorfields. So named to distinguish it from the Old Ground near St. Mary Spittel, where formerly ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Artillery Ground
Extends from Middlesex Street south to Spital Square north, east of Bishopsgate Street, outside the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Sepulchre's Burying Ground
On the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without, north of Smithfield Market, east of Durham Yard...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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go-by-ground
a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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break one's horn-book
to incur displeasure. South.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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go by the ground
A little short person, man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose