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·- A colloquial contraction for can not. ...

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·noun A corner; angle; niche. II. Cant ·noun An outer or external angle. ...

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cant
1) An hypocrite, a double-tongue palavering fellow. See palaver. 2) To cant; to toss or throw: as,...

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to cant
To turn about; to turn over; a common use of the word, not mentioned by Johnson or Todd. It is, howe...

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cant
1) strong, lusty : very cant, God yield you ; i. e. very strong and lusty, God reward you. Chesh. 2...

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cant
A cut made in a whale between the neck and the fins, to which the cant-purchase is made fast, for tu...

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blocks
The several transverse pieces or logs of timber, piled in plane, on which a ship is built, or to pla...

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Cant hook
·- A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; — used for canting or turning over heavy ...

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cant-hook
A wooden lever, with an iron hook at one end, with which heavy articles of merchandise or timber are...

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cant, to
To turn anything about, or so that it does not stand square. To diverge from a central right line. C...

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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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cant-falls
See spike-tackle. ...

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cant-hook
A lever with a hook at one end for heavy articles. ...

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cant-line
Synonymous with girt-line, as to cant the top over the lowermast-head. ...

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cant-purchase
This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...

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cant-ribbons
Those ribbons that do not lie in a horizontal or level direction. ...

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cant-rope
See four-cant. ...

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cant-spar
A hand-mast pole, fit for making small masts or yards, booms, &c. ...

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cant-timbers
They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...

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four-cant
A rope composed of four strands. ...

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back-blocks
n. 1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...

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bee-blocks
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through...

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bilge-blocks
See sliding bilge-blocks. ...

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blocks, fixed
See fixed blocks. ...

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bullock-blocks
Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in or...

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cheek-blocks
Usually fitted to the fore-topmast head, for the purpose of leading the jib-stay, halliards, &c. ...

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clump-blocks
Those that are made thicker or stronger than ordinary blocks. (See block, tack-and-sheet.) ...

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fixed blocks
Solid pieces of oak let through the sides of the ship, and fitted with sheaves, to lead the tacks, s...

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hanging-blocks
These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...

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hawse-blocks
Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...

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jeer-blocks
Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...

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jewel-blocks
Are attached to eye-bolts on those yards where studding-sails are hoisted, and carry these sails to ...

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keel-blocks
Short log ends of timbers on which the keel of a vessel rests while building or repairing, affording...

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leading-blocks
The several blocks used for guiding the direction of any purchase, as hook, snatch, or tail blocks. ...

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pedestal-blocks
Synonymous with plumber-blocks (which see). ...

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plumber-blocks
These, in a marine steam-engine, are Y's, wherein are fixed the bushes, in which the shafts or pinio...

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purchase-blocks
All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...

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quarter-blocks
Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...

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running-blocks
Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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span-blocks
Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to ha...

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speck-blocks
See flense, to. ...

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transporting-blocks
Two snatch-blocks, fitted one on each side above the taffrail, to admit a hawser, when transporting ...

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two-blocks
The same as chock-a-block (which see). ...

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can't come it
is a vulgar expression for cannot do it. "You can't come it over me so," i. e. you cannot effect you...

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iron-bound blocks
Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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sliding bilge-blocks
Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...

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the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.
Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

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