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• Away

  ·adv From a place; hence. II. Away ·adv Aside; off; in another direction. III. Away ·adv From a st...

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• Cast-off

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• cast, to

  To fall off, so as to bring the direction of the wind on one side of the ship, which before was righ...

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• cast-aways

  People belonging to vessels stranded by stress of weather. Men who have hidden themselves, or are pu...

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• cast-knees

  Those hanging knees which compass or arch over the angle of a man-of-war's ports, rider, &c. ...

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• cast-offs

  Landsmen's clothes. ...

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• Away-going

  ·adj Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; — said of cr...

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• to spirit away

  To kidnap, or inveigle away. ...

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• to blaze away

  To keep up a discharge of fire-arms. A good English phrase. The hunter (of the west) attacks the ol...

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• to fire away

  To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors. A well-known ...

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• right away

  Directly; immediately. ...

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• away aloft

  The order to the men in the rigging to start up. ...

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• away off

  At a distance, but in sight. ...

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• away there

  The call for a boat's crew; as, "away there! barge-men." ...

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• bowling away

  See bolling away ...

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• bolling or bowling away

  Going with a free wind. ...

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• ease away!

  To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall. ...

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• fire-away

  Go on with your remarks. ...

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• fly-away

  Fictitious resemblance of land; "Dutchman's cape," &c. (See cape fly-away.) ...

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• here-away

  A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter. ...

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• lash away

  A phrase to hasten the lashing of hammocks. ...

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• pay away

  The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope. ♦ Pay down. Send che...

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• right away!

  It is a habit of seamen answering when a sail is discovered from the mast-head; "Right away on the b...

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• there away!

  A phrase accompanied by pointing on a bearing, or to an object in sight. Thereabout, in that quarter...

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• walk away!

  The order to step out briskly with a tackle fall, as in hoisting boats. ...

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• where away?

  In what bearing? a question to the man at the mast-head to designate in what direction a strange sai...

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• away she goes

  The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...

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• away with it

  The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c. ...

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• cape fly-away

  A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.) ...

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• carry away, to

  To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off. It is customary...

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• ease away there!

  ,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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• edge away, to

  To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...

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• north-away yawl

  The old term for Norway yawl (which see). ...

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• pull-away-boys

  A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...

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• wind away, to

  To steer through narrow channels. ...

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• cast of the lead

  The act of heaving the lead into the sea to ascertain what depth of water there is. (See also heave ...

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• cast the wrong way

  See wrong way. ...

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• run away with it!

  The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...

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• run away with her anchor

  Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...

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• veer away the cable, to

  To slack and let it run out. ...

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• walking away with the anchor

  Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

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• fallen away from a horse load to a cart load

  A saying on one grown fat. ...

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