capstan-bar pins

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• pins

  Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs. ...

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• pins

  ♦ Belaying pins. Short cylindrical pieces of wood or iron fixed into the fife-rail and other parts o...

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• Capstan

  ·noun A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drum...

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• capstan

  , &c. A mechanical arrangement for lifting great weights. There is a variety of capsterns, but the...

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• Bar

  ·noun A drilling or tamping rod. II. Bar ·noun A vein or dike crossing a lode. III. Bar ·noun A ga...

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• Bar

  Used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the sh...

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• bar

  for bear. The common pronunciation in certain parts of the Southern and Western States. ...

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• belaying pins

  Small wooden or iron cylinders, fixed in racks in different parts of the ship, for belaying running ...

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• bitt-pins

  Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of...

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• jack-pins

  A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...

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• tack-pins

  The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins. ...

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• Crisping Pins

  (Isaiah 3:22) The original word means some kind of female ornament, probably a reticule or richly or...

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• capstan-barring

  An obsolete sea-punishment, in which the offender was sentenced to carry a capstan-bar during a watc...

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• capstan-bars

  Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...

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• capstan-room

  See room. ...

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• capstan-step

  (See step of the capstan.) The men march round to the tune of a fiddle or fife, and the phrase of ...

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• capstan-swifter

  A rope passed horizontally through notches in the outer ends of the bars, and drawn very tight: the ...

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• crab-capstan

  See crab. ...

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• double-capstan

  One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...

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• drum-capstan

  A contrivance for weighing heavy anchors, invented by Sir S. Morland, who died in 1695. ...

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• jeer-capstan

  One placed between the fore and main masts, serving to stretch a rope, heave upon the jeers, and tak...

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• main-capstan

  The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...

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• Bar iron

  ·- ·see under <<Iron>>. ...

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• Detector bar

  ·add. ·- A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels...

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• Puddle-bar

  ·noun An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling. ...

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• Sea-bar

  ·noun A <<Tern>>. ...

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• Space bar

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Space key. ...

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• Sway bar

  ·add. ·- Either of the two bars used in coupling the front and rear sleds of a logging sled; also, t...

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• Bar-jesus

  Son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Papho...

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• Bar-jona

  Son of Jonah, the patronymic of Peter (Matt. 16:17; John 1:42), because his father's name was Jonas....

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• Spital Bar

  A vacant place called the "Spytele Barre" opposite the Hospital of St. Mary Bishopsgate, 1374 (Cal. ...

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• Temple Bar

  At the western end of Fleet Street on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (O.S.1848-50). A gate...

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• steel bar

  A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle. ...

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• crow-bar

  A bar of iron sharpened at one end, used as a lever. In England it is called a crow; though crow-bar...

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• mosquito bar

  A net or curtain, which, in the Southern States and in the West Indies, is placed over the bed to pr...

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• bar-guest

  a ghost, all in white, with large saucer eyes, commonly appearing near gates or stiles, there called...

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• toll-bar

  a turnpike. N. ...

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• crow-bar

  See crow ...

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• parallel-bar

  In the marine steam-engine, forms a connection with the pump-rods and studs along the centre line of...

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• rack-bar

  A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly toge...

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• capstan, surge the

  Is the order to slacken the rope which is wound round the barrel while heaving, to prevent it from r...

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• drumhead of capstan

  A broad cylindrical piece of elm, resembling a millstone, and fixed immediately above the barrel and...

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• to bar the bubble

  To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: thi...

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• cross-bar-shot

  The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...

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• pissing pins and needles

  To have a gonorrhea. ...

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• barrel of a capstan

  The cylinder between the whelps and the paul rim, constituting the main-piece. ...

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• capstan, to man the

  To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave. ...

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• capstan, to paul the

  To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...

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• capstan, to rig the

  To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...

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• rig the capstan, to

  To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...

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• step of the capstan

  A solid block of wood fixed between two of the ship's beams to receive the iron spindle and heel of ...

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• surge the capstan, to

  To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul. ...

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• Old Temple, Bar of

  See Holborn Bars. ...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• bar of a port

  or bar of a harbour An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...

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• capstan, to come up the

  In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...

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• capstan, to heave at the

  To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described. ...

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• Bar of the New Temple

  See Temple Bar. ...

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• Bar of the Old Temple

  See Holborn Bars. ...

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• radius-bar of parallel motion

  An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine. ...

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