capstan-barring

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• Barring

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Bar>>. ...

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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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• barring-out

  The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the mas...

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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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• 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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• capstan-bar pins

  Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...

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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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• 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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• 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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