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compartment bulk-heads
Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...

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Bulk
·noun The <<Body>>. II. Bulk ·v A projecting part of a building. III. Bulk ·noun The cargo of a ve...

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bulk
In bulk; things stowed without cases or packages. (See bulk-heads and laden in bulk.) ...

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barrel-bulk
A measure of capacity for freight in a ship, equal to five cubic feet: so that eight barrel-bulk are...

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break-bulk
To open the hold, to begin unloading and disposing of the goods therein, under legal provisions. ...

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cat-heads
A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE. ...

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negroe's heads
Brown leaves delivered to the ships in ordinary. ...

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dead heads
Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...

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bitt-heads
The upright pieces of oak-timber let in and bolted to the beams of two decks at least, and to which ...

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cubbridge heads
The old bulk-heads of the forecastle and half-decks, wherein were placed the "murderers," or guns fo...

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kevel-heads
The ends of the top timbers, which, rising above the gunwale, serve to belay the ropes, or to be use...

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knight-heads
Two large oak timbers, one on each side of the stem, rising up sufficiently above it to support the ...

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negro-heads
The brown loaves issued to ships in ordinary. ...

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range-heads
The windlass-bitts (which see). ...

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timber-heads
The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, ...

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wrung-heads
An old term for that part of a ship near the floor-heads and second futtock-heels, which, when she l...

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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. ...

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bulk-head, the
Afore, is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head, and in which are the chase-...

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laden in bulk
A cargo neither in casks, bales, nor cases, but lying loose in the hold, only defended from wet by m...

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stowed in bulk
See bulk. ...

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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb. ...

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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...

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bulk of a ship
Implies the whole cargo when stowed in the hold. ...

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