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boatswain's store-room
Built expressly for boatswain's stores, on a platform or light deck.
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captain's store-room
A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores.
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lieutenant's store-room
More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see).
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Store
·adj Accumulated; hoarded.
II. Store ·vt Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or re...
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store
n.
a bullock, cow, or sheep bought to befattened for the market.
1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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store
In the United States and Canada, shops of every kind for the sale of goods whether at wholesale or r...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Room
·adj Spacious; roomy.
II. Room ·vi To occupy a room or rooms; to <<Lodge>>; as, they arranged to ro...
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to room
To occupy a room; to lodge.--Worcester.
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room
A name given to some reserved apartment in a ship, as
♦ The bread-room. In the aftermost part of t...
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Room
The references to "room" in (Matthew 23:6; Mark 12:39; Luke 14:7,8; 20:46) signify the highest place...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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 crew
Consists of a portion of the crew, provided for ship-carpentry and ship-building. In ships of war th...
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carpenter's yeoman
See yeoman.
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Department store
·add. ·- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, ·esp. o...
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Re-store
·vt To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.
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store-cattle
n.
lean cattle bought to befattened for the market; often contracted to stores (q.v.).
1885. R. M....
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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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store-keeper
An officer in the royal dockyards, invested with the general charge of naval stores, as the sails, a...
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store-ship
A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores.
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Amber room
·- A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and ...
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By-room
·noun A private room or apartment.
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Drawing-room
·noun The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawin...
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Sea room
·- Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or...
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Tiring-room
·noun The room or place where players dress for the stage.
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Withdrawing-room
·noun A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
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elbow room
Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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keeping-room
A common sitting-room; the parlor in New England. The term is chiefly used in the interior, although...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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state-room
A small room in a ship or steam-vessel for one or two passengers.--Worcester.
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bare-room
An old phrase for bore-down.
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bread-room
The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head...
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capstan-room
See room.
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cook-room
, or cook-house.
The galley or caboose containing the cooking apparatus, and where victuals are dr...
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filling room
Formerly a small place parted off and lined with lead, in a man-of-war magazine, wherein powder may ...
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fish-room
A space parted off by bulk-heads in the after-hold, now used for waste stores, but formerly used for...
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gun-room
A compartment on the after-end of the lower gun-deck of large ships of war, partly occupied by the j...
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light-room
In a ship-of-war, a small space parted off from the magazine, having double-glass windows for more s...
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going room
, room
The old term for going large, or from, the wind. (See lask, to and large.) It is mentioned by...
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sea-room
Implies a sufficient distance from land, rocks, or shoals wherein a ship may drive or scud without d...
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shell-room
An important compartment in ships of war, fitted up with strong shelves to receive the shells when c...
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slop-room
The place appointed to keep the slops in, for the ship's company; generally well aft and dry.
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spirit-room
A place or compartment abaft the after-hold, to contain the ship's company's spirits.
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state-room
A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...
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trade-room
A part of the steerage of a Yankee notion-trader where light goods and samples of the cargo are kept...
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turning-room
Space in a narrow channel for a ship to work in.
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ward-room
The commissioned officers' mess-cabin, on the main-deck in ships of the line.
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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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to set store by
To value; esteem; regard. This sense of the word store is not noticed by the English or American lex...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bill of store
A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...
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naval store-ship
A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations.
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dining room post
A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bread-room jack
The purser's steward's help.
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engine-room telegraph
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below.
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marine clothing-room
A compartment of the after-platform, to receive the clothes and stores of the royal marines.
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timber and room
, is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...
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ward-room officers
Those who mess in the ward-room, namely: the commander, lieutenants, master, chaplain, surgeon, paym...
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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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Lombard Exchange and Reading Room
On the south side of Lombard Street, about No. 40 (O.S. 1880).
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jack in the bread-room
, or jack in the dust.
The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room.
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lady of the gun-room
A gunner's mate, who takes charge of the after-scuttle, where gunners' stores are kept.
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well-room of a boat
The place in the bottom where the water lies, between the ceiling and the platform of the stern-shee...
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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry.
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose