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Stage
·noun A floor or story of a house. II. Stage ·noun A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of...

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stage
A carriage for conveying passengers; a stage-coach.--Worcester. We sometimes use mail-stage for mail...

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stage
Planks let over the ship's sides by ropes, whereon the people may stand when repairing, &c. ♦ A fl...

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Cable
·vt To fasten with a cable. II. Cable ·vt & ·vi To telegraph by a submarine cable. III. Cable ·vt ...

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cable
A thick, strong rope or chain which serves to keep a ship at anchor; the rope is cable-laid, 10 inch...

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Stage director
·add. ·- One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the ...

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Stage fright
·add. ·- Nervousness felt before an <<Audience>>. ...

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Stage manager
·add. ·- One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, pr...

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Stage-struck
·adj Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an <<Actor>>. ...

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stage driver
A stage-coachman. ...

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airing-stage
A wooden platform, on which gunpowder is aired and dried. ...

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floating stage
For caulkers, painters, &c. ...

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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle. ...

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hanging-stage
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...

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cable-sheet, sheet-cable
The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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cable-stream, stream-cable
A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...

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Sheet cable
·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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cable-bends
Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch...

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cable-bitted
So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease. ...

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cable-bitts
See bitts. ...

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cable-buoys
Peculiar casks employed to buoy up rope cables in a rocky anchorage, to prevent their rubbing agains...

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cable-enough
The call when cable enough is veered to permit of the anchor being brought to the cat-head. ...

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cable-hanger
A term applied to any person catching oysters in the river Medway, not free of the fishery, and who ...

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cable-tier
The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away. ...

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sheet-cable
A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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stream-cable
A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...

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Cable, George Washington
(b. 1844) American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881...

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bending the cable
The operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. The term is still used for...

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cable-laid rope
Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...

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chain-cable compressor
A curved arm of iron which revolves on a bolt through an eye at one end, at the other is a larger ey...

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chain-cable controller
A contrivance for the prevention of one part of the chain riding on another while heaving in. ...

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chain-cable shackles
Used for coupling the parts of a chain-cable at various lengths, so that they may be disconnected wh...

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range of cable
A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...

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veering cable, the
That cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse. ...

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bitt the cable, to
To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...

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cable, to coil a
To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other. ♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.) ♦ To pay cheap ...

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cut the cable, to
A manœuvre sometimes necessary for making a ship cast the right way, or when the anchor cannot be we...

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stopper of the cable
Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...

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testing a chain-cable
Trying its strength by the hydraulic machine, which strains it beyond what it is likely to undergo w...

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stand clear of the cable!
A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...

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veer away the cable, to
To slack and let it run out. ...

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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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moor with a spring on the cable, to
See spring. ...

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