channel-gropers

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• gropers

  Blind men; also midwives. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• gropers

  The ships stationed in the Channel and North Sea. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Channel

  ·noun A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. II. Channel ·vt To course through or over, as in a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Channel

  1) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7). 2) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), p...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• channel

  In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenie...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• channel-bill

  n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• channel-bolts

  The long bolts which pass through all the planks, and connect the channel to the side. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• channel-groping

  The carrying despatches, and cruising from port to port in soundings. ...

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• channel-plates

  See chain-plates. ...

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• channel-wales

  Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships. Also, the outside plank...

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• mid-channel

  Implies half way across any river, channel, &c. ...

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