The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship.
·v That which is pursued or hunted. II. Chase ·vt To cut, so as to make a screw thread. III. Chase...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The vessel pursued by some other, that pursuing being the chaser. This word is also applied to a r...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Hunting] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
, or port-holes. The square apertures in the sides of a ship through which to point and fire the o...
·noun The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. ...
To pursue a ship, which is also called giving chase. ♦ A stern chase is when the chaser follows th...
Cannon situated in the fore part of the ship to fire upon any object ahead of her. Chasing ahead, or...
Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns. ...
Where the sight is usually placed. ...
The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...
·- Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; — viz., Hastings, Romn...
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...
Ports cut down on the middle gun-deck of three-deckers, to serve as door-ways for persons going in a...
See ports. ...
In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. ...
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...
Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...
Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...
The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...
A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to make sail in pursuit of a stranger. ...
These are five highly privileged stations, the once great emporiums of British commerce and maritime...
That part of the conical external surface extending from the moulding in front of the trunnions to t...
To mark well the position of the vessel chased by bearing, so that by standing away from her on one ...
Otherwise lord warden (which see). ...