cant-purchase

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• Purchase

  ·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...

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• purchase

  Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in...

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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...

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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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• Hire purchase

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• Year's purchase

  ·add. ·- The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; — used in expressing the valu...

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• hydraulic purchase

  A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...

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• kent-purchase

  A misspelling of cant-purchase, or one used to turn a whale round during the operation of flensing. ...

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• peak purchase

  A purchase fitted in cutters to the standing peak-halliards to sway it up taut. ...

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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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• purchase-falls

  The rope rove through purchase-blocks. ...

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• runner-purchase

  The addition of a tackle to a single rope, then termed a pendant, passing through a block applied to...

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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-blocks

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

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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-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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• Hire purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• gun-tackle purchase

  A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...

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• raising a purchase

  The act of disposing certain machines, so that, by their mutual effects, they may produce sufficient...

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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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• Hire and purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...

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• purchase a commission, to

  A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...

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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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