bunt-jigger

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• Jigger

  ·noun & ·v A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. II. Jigger ·noun & ·v A supplementary sail. ...

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• jigger

  A whipping-post. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jigger

  A light tackle used to hold on the cable when it is heaved into the ship. (See holding-on.) Also, a ...

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• Bunt

  ·vi To swell out; as, the sail bunts. II. Bunt ·add. ·noun A push or shove; a butt;. III. Bunt ·ad...

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• bunt

  An apron. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bunt

  n. a Queensland fungus growing on wheat,fetid when crushed. Tilletia caries, Tul., N.O. Fungi. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to bunt

  To push with horns; to butt. This word is given by Webster, but is not in the English dictionaries. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bu.nt

  smut in corn. Northampt. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• boom-jigger

  A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...

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• jigger, chigre

  A very teazing sand-flea, which penetrates and breeds under the skin of the feet, but particularly a...

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• jigger-mast

  In large vessels it is an additional aftermost mast; thus any sail set on the ensign-staff would be ...

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• jigger-tackle

  A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions abo...

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• bunt-fair

  Before the wind. ...

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• bunt-gasket

  See gasket. ...

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• dub the jigger

  Open the door. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bunt slab-lines

  Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...

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• bunt of a sail

  The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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• toss up the bunt, to

  In furling a sail, to make its final package at the centre of the yard when in its skin. ...

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• touch up in the bunt, to

  To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly. ...

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