carpenter's crew

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• crew

  A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three o...

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• crew

  Comprehends every officer and man on board ship, borne as complement on the books. There are in ship...

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• the canting crew

  Thieves, beggars, and gypsies, or any others using the canting lingo. See lingo. ...

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• boat's crew

  The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...

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• Carpenter's Buildings

  South out of London Wall, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-O.S.). A passage leading to the Dog an...

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• Carpenters' Company

  Incorporated 17 Ed. IV. (S. 177). In 1344 (Elmes, 1831, and Dodsley). ...

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• Carpenter's Court

  East out of Aldermanbury in Cripplegate Ward Within (Boyle, 1799), opposite St. Mary's Church. Firs...

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• Carpenter's Hall

  On the south side of London Wall, at the north-east corner of Throgmorton Avenue (P.O. Directory). ...

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• Carpenters' Rents

  West out of Jewry Street. In Aldgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). Former name : "Carpenters Ya...

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• Carpenter's Yard

  1) Out of Skinner Street in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in t...

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• carpenter's yeoman

  See yeoman. ...

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• captain copperthorne's crew

  All officers; a saying of a company where everyone strives to rule. ...

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• cod-fisher's crew

  The crew of a banker, or fishing-vessel, which anchors in 60 or 70 fathoms on the Great Bank of Newf...

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• Carpenters' Hall Yard

  South out of Tower Street, west of St. Dunstan's Hill (Strype, 1720-55). In Tower Ward. Former name...

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• Carpenter's Yard, Aldermanbury

  See Carpenter's Court. ...

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• Carpenter's Yard, Houndsditch

  See Hanover Court. ...

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• carpenter's store-room

  An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...

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• Carpenter's Yard, Jewry Street

  See Carpenters' Rents. ...

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• Carpenter's Yard, Tower Street

  See Carpenters' Hall Yard. ...

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• incompetency, or insufficiency, of a merchantman's crew

  A bar to any claim on warrantry; as it is an implied condition in the sea-worthiness of a ship, that...

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• insufficiency of a merchantman's crew

  This bars the owner's claim on the sea-worthy warrant. (See incompetency of a merchantman's crew.) ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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