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Breast
·noun The front of a furnace. II. Breast ·noun The face of a coal working. III. Breast ·noun A <<T...

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Rail
·vt To rail at. II. Rail ·vt To range in a line. III. Rail ·vt To move or influence by railing. I...

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rail
n. common English birdname. There aremany varieties in New Zealand and Australia, especially in the...

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rail
A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails a...

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rail
a revel, a country wake. Devon. ...

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Breast-deep
·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...

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Breast-high
·adj High as the breast. ...

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Broken breast
·add. ·- Abscess of the mammary gland. ...

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Chimney-breast
·noun The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; — commonly applied...

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breast fleet
He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their c...

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breast, to
To run abeam of a cape or object. To cut through a sea, the surface of which is poetically termed br...

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breast-backstays
They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...

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breast-beams
Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...

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breast-fast
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...

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breast-gaskets
An old term for bunt-gaskets. ...

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breast-hooks
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...

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breast-rope
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...

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breast-work
A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions, which terminates the quarter-deck and poop ...

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T rail
·- ·see under <<T>>. ...

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Third rail
·add. ·- An electric railway using such a rail. II. Third rail ·add. ·- The third rail used in the ...

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Water rail
·- Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus ...

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slip-rail
n. part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...

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weka, rail
n. See weka. ...

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to rail it
To travel by rail-road. From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...

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rail-car
A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads. ...

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bow-rail
A rail round the bows. ...

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false rail
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener. ...

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forecastle-rail
The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships. ...

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pedestal-rail
A rail about two inches thick, wrought over the foot-space rail, and in which there is a groove to s...

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sheer-rail
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...

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top-rail
A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops. ...

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waist-rail
The channel-rail or moulding of the ship's side. ...

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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...

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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...

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wolf in the breast
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...

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post-and-rail tea
slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...

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