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Clap
·noun Noisy talk; chatter. II. Clap ·vi To knock, as at a door. III. Clap ·noun <<Gonorrhea>>. IV...

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clap
A venereal taint. He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home; i.e. he went out a wenching...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to clap
To set down; charge to one's account. If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Board
·noun The side of a ship. II. Board ·noun A table to put food upon. III. Board ·noun To enter, as ...

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board
n. term used by shearers. See quotation. 1893. `The Herald' (Melbourne), Dec. 23, p. 6, col. 1: «...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
board
Certain offices under the control of the executive government, where the business of any particular ...

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board and board
Alongside, as when two ships touch each other. ...

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after-clap
A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...

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clap down
To set down; charge to one's account. If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...

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clap-trap
An artifice for attracting applause. Used chiefly in theatrical or political language. The managers...

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clap-bread
thin hard oat-cakes. Lane. ...

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after-clap
Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...

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clap-match
A sort of seal, distinct from the fur-seal. ...

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clap on!
The order to lay hold of any rope, in order to haul upon it. Also, to "Clap on the stoppers before...

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clap-sill
The lockage of a flood-gate. ...

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Plug board
·add. ·- A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs. ...

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Sound-board
·noun A sounding-board. ...

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Sounding-board
·noun ·see Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise. II. Sounding-board ·noun A thin board which propag...

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Weather-board
·vt To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, ·etc. ...

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penance board
The pillory. ...

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above-board
In open sight; without artifice, or trick. "A figurative expression," says Johnson, "borrowed from g...

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above-board
Over the deck; a term used for open fair dealing, without artifice or trick. ...

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arch-board
The part of the stern over the counter, immediately under the knuckles of the stern-timbers. ...

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back-board
A board across the stern sheets of a boat to support the back of passengers; and also to form the bo...

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bevelling-board
A piece of board on which the bevellings or angles of the timbers are described. ...

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board him
A colloquialism for I'll ask, demand, or accost him. Hence Shakspeare makes Polonius say of Hamlet, ...

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covering-board
See plank-sheer. ...

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flashing-board
To raise or set off. ...

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foot-board
The same as gang-board, but not so sailor-like. (See stretchers.) ...

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free-board
See plank-sheer. ...

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gang-board
The narrow platform within the side next the gunwale, connecting the quarter-deck to the forecastle....

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in-board
Within the ship; the opposite of out-board. ...

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letter-board
Another term for name-board (which see). ...

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log-board
Two boards shutting together like a book, and divided into several columns, in which to record, thro...

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medical board
A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding o...

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name-board
The arch-board, or part whereon the ship's name and port are painted. ...

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navy board
The commissioners of the navy collectively considered, but long since abolished. ...

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on board
Within a ship; the same as aboard. ...

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out-board
The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board. ...

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pointer-board
A simple contrivance for duly training a ship's guns. ...

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sea-board
The line along which the land and water meet, indicating the limit common to both. ...

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serving-board
A flattened piece of hard wood with a handle, for passing service on the smaller ropes. ...

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stern-board
This term is familiarly known to seamen as tacking by misadventure in stays; or purposely, as a seam...

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traverse-board
A thin circular piece of board, marked with all the points of the compass, and having eight holes bo...

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wash-board
, or wash-strake. A movable upper strake which is attached by stud-pins on the gunwales of boats t...

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weather-board
That side of the ship which is to windward. ...

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within-board
Inside a ship. ...

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board of trade
A committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of commercial matters. ...

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by the board
Over the ship's side. When a mast is carried away near the deck it is said to go by the board. ...

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local marine-board
See marine boards. ...

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clap on the shoulder
An arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder-clapper. ...

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Metropolitan Asylums' Board Offices
On the north side of Victoria Embankment, in Farringdon Ward Without. See Saxton's Still House. ...

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make a good board
See board. ...

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board him in the smoke
To take a person by surprise, as by firing a broadside, and boarding in the smoke. ...

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take water on board, to
To ship a sea. ...

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