breaking

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• Breaking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Break>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• breaking shins

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• breaking liberty

  Not returning at the appointed time. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• leave-breaking

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• breaking-plate distance

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• breaking the ey

  See eyght. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• breaking of a gale

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• breaking-up of the monsoon

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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