cant-body

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• Body

  ·noun Amount; quantity; extent. II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...

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• body

  A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America. Good may come out of evil, and ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• body

  a simpleton. N. ...

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

• body

  The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet. ...

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• Can't

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

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• Cant

  ·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,...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to cant

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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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• Torpedo body

  ·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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• body snatchers

  Bum bailiffs. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• poor body!

  i. e. Poor Creature. Durham. ...

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• after-body

  That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...

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• body-hoops

  Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

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• body-plan

  The draught of a proposed ship, showing the breadth and timbers; it is a section supposed to cut the...

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• body-post

  An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...

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• dog's-body

  Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

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• fore-body

  An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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• main-body

  The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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-blocks

  The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing. ...

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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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• 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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• body, of a place

  In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains. ...

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• furling in a body

  A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...

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• longitude of a celestial body

  An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...

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• terminal velocity of any given body

  The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

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• body of divinity bound in black calf

  A parson. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body

  A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose