Said when Bristol was in its palmy commercial days, unannoyed by Liverpool, and its shipping was all in proper good order.
·noun A seaport city in the west of England. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt To forge or counterfeit. II. Fashion ·vt To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. I...
South out of Duke Humphrey's to the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). "...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A Spanish wine called sherry, much drunk at that place, particularly in the morning. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The son of an Irish thief and a Welch whore. ...
·noun One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. ...
·adj Behaving like a fashion-monger. ...
The fashion of the after-part of a ship, in the plane of projection. They are the hindmost timbers i...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Cutting at the heads of antagonists, instead of thrusting. ...
Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM. ...
The method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks...
The turning-in of a dead-eye with the end of the shroud down. ...
One slice upon the other. John and his maid were caught lying bread and butter fashion.--To quarrel ...
A state of order, tidiness, and good discipline. ...