breaking liberty

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• Liberty

  ·noun Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. II. Liberty ·noun A curve or arch in a bit to af...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• liberty

  Permission to go on shore or ship-visiting. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Breaking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Break>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• breaking

  Breaking out stores or cargo in the hold. The act of extricating casks or other objects from the hol...

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• Tower Liberty

  Tower and fortifications with Tower Hill of the ancient demesne of the Crown with jurisdiction and p...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• liberty-day

  A day announced for permitting a part of the crew to go ashore. ...

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• liberty-liquor

  Spirits formerly allowed to be purchased when seamen had visitors; now forbidden. ...

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• liberty-men

  Those on leave of absence. ...

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• liberty-ticket

  A document specifying the date and extent of the leave granted to a seaman or marine proceeding on h...

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• breaking shins

  Borrowing money; perhaps from the figurative operation being, like the real one, extremely disagreea...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• leave-breaking

  A liberty man not being back to his time. ...

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• breaking-plate distance

  The point within which iron-plated ships, under concentrated fire, may be damaged. ...

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• breaking the ey

  See eyght. ...

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• breaking of a gale

  Indications of a return of fine weather; short gusts at intervals; moaning or whistling of the wind ...

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• breaking-up of the monsoon

  A nautical term for the violent storms that attend the shifting of periodical winds. ...

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• the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose