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Carrick
·noun A carack. ·see <<Carack>>. ...

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carrick
An old Gaelic term for a castle or fortress, as well as for a rock in the sea. ...

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Bend
·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind. II. Bend ·noun A <<Band>>. III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclin...

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bend
1) a border of a woman's cap. N.; perhaps from BAND. 2) see ben ...

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bend
The chock of the bowsprit. ...

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carrick-bitts
The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-b...

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yarra-bend
n. equivalent to the English word Bedlam. The first lunatic asylum of the colony ofVictoria stood n...

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bend-kitt
a kind of great can with a cover. N. ...

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bend, to
To fasten one rope to another, or to an anchor. The term is also applied to any sudden or remarkable...

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bend-mould
A mould made to form the futtocks in the square body, assisted by the rising-square and floor-hollow...

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bend-roll
A rest formerly used for a heavy musket. ...

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bowline-bend
The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...

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fisherman's bend
A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots. Its main use is for bending studding-halliards ...

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granny's bend
The slippery hitch made by a lubber. ...

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sheet-bend
A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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slip-bend
When a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or overboard. ...

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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

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above one's bend
Out of one's power; beyond reach. A common expression in the Western States. I shall not attempt to...

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bend on the tack
In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...

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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...

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try back for a bend, to
To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. ...

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