cant-timbers

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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,...

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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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• timbers

  The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as 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-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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• four-cant

  A rope composed of four strands. ...

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• Top-timbers

  ·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. ...

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• after-timbers

  All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...

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• bollard-timbers

  Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see). ...

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• bolting timbers

  Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.) ...

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• bow-timbers

  Those which form the bow of the ship. ...

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• compass-timbers

  Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...

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• counter-timbers

  Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...

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• cross-timbers

  See cross-piece. ...

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• filling-timbers

  Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...

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• floor-timbers

  See floors ...

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• frame-timbers

  These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...

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• futtock-timbers

  See futtocks. ...

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• ground-timbers

  Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...

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• half-timbers

  The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...

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• hawse-timbers

  The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...

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• knuckle-timbers

  The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...

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• long timbers

  , or long top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...

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• quarter-timbers

  The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...

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• square timbers

  Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel. ...

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• top-timbers

  The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-ti...

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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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• angles of timbers

  See bevelling. ...

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• bow-log timbers

  A provincial name for hawse-wood. ...

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• long stern-timbers

  See stern-timbers. ...

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• long top-timbers

  See long timbers ...

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• warping and framing the timbers

  Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...

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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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