The peculiar chisels used for the purpose of caulking: they are the caulking-iron, the making-iron, the reeming-iron, and the rasing-iron.
A ship is said to be in irons when, by mismanagement, she is permitted to come up in the wind and lo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The opening between ends or joints of the planks when worked for caulking. ...
The wooden beetle or instrument with which the caulking-irons are driven. ...
·- A pair of pistols. II. Barking irons ·- Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun ·pl A pair of blacksmith's tongs. ...
Pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. IRISH. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Handcuffs. ...
corruption of Andirons. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
brand-irons. ...
Certain strips of iron having their edges turned up at an angle to each other; they are of various s...
Large duelling pistols. ...
Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...
Curved bars of iron placed over the ornaments of a ship to defend them from damage. ...
Consist of a pointed wire used through the vent to prick the cartridge when it is "home," and of a f...
The pintles, gudgeons, and braces of the rudder are frequently so called, though they were usually o...
Forcing a quantity of oakum, or old ropes untwisted and drawn asunder, into the seams of the planks,...