breaking-plate distance

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• Breaking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Break>>. ...

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• Distance

  ·noun Remoteness of place; a remote place. II. Distance ·vt To place at a distance or remotely. II...

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• breaking

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

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• distance

  The run which a ship has made upon the log-board. In speaking of double stars, it is the space separ...

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• Plate

  ·noun A piece of money, usually silver money. II. Plate ·noun A roundel of silver or tinctured arge...

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• plate

  Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venerea...

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• plate

  In marine law, refers to jewels, plate, or treasure, for which freight is due. Thus, plate-ship is a...

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• breaking shins

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

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• angular distance

  This term, when applied to celestial bodies, implies that the sun and moon, or moon and stars, are w...

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• breaking liberty

  Not returning at the appointed time. ...

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• curtate distance

  An astronomical term, denoting the distance of a body from the sun or earth projected upon the eclip...

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• leave-breaking

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

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• mean distance

  The average distance of a planet from the sun; it is equal to half the longer axis of the ellipse, a...

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• polar distance

  The complement of the declination. The angular distance of a heavenly body from one of the poles, co...

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• zenith-distance

  The angular distance of any celestial object from the zenith at the time of observation. In navigati...

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• Cuttoo plate

  ·- A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. ...

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• Plate-gilled

  ·adj Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. ...

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• Process plate

  ·add. ·- A plate prepared by a mechanical process, ·esp. a photomechanical process. II. Process pla...

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• Veiled plate

  ·add. ·- A fogged plate. ...

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• Water plate

  ·- A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. ...

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• Wet plate

  ·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...

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• dial plate

  The face. To alter his dial plate; to disfigure his face. ...

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• king's plate

  Fetters. ...

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• gammon-plate

  An iron plate bolted to the stem of some vessels for the purpose of supporting the gammoning of the ...

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• plate-armour

  Thick coverings or coatings for ships on the new principle, to render them impervious to shot and sh...

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• breaking the ey

  See eyght. ...

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• moon in distance

  When the angle between her and the sun, or a star, admits of measurement for lunar observation. ...

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• Tin Plate Workers

  Incorporated 1670. ...

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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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• sun and moon in distance

  When the angle between those bodies admits of measurement for lunars (about 130°). ...

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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. ...

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