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make free with the land, to
To approach the shore closely.
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close the wind, to
To haul to it.
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lay the land, to
Barely to lose sight of it.
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make the land, to
To see it from a distance after a voyage.
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Close
·adv Secretly; darkly.
II. Close ·adv In a close manner.
III. Close ·noun A grapple in wrestling.
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close
As close as God's curse to a whore's a-se: close as shirt and shitten a-se.
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With
·noun ·see <<Withe>>.
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with
An iron instrument fitted to the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boo...
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Land
·noun The ground or floor.
II. Land ·noun The inhabitants of a nation or people.
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land
How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man a...
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land
1) a division in ploughing. N.
2) urine ; to lant or leint ale, to put urine into it to make it str...
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land
In a general sense denotes terra firma, as distinguished from sea; but, also, land-laid, or to lay t...
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with the sun
Ropes coiled from the left hand towards the right; but where the sun passes the meridian north of th...
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sighting the land
Running in to catch a view.
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fall in with, to
To meet, when speaking of a ship; to discover, when speaking of the land.
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down with the helm!
An order to put the helm a-lee.
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ready with the lead!
A caution when the vessel is luffed up to deaden her way, followed by "heave."
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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...
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Close-banded
·adj Closely united.
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Close-barred
·adj Firmly barred or closed.
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Close-bodied
·adj Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
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Close-fights
·noun ·pl Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a ...
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Close-stool
·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...
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Close-tongued
·adj Closemouthed; silent.
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Couple-close
·noun A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
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Bartholomew Close
At 32 Little Britain, on the west, south and east sides of St. Bartholomew the Great (P.O. Directory...
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(St.) Paul's Close
The close of St. Paul's situate near the Dean's mansion, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 25).
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Tasell Close
See Old Artillery Ground.
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Weld Close
See Wellclose Square.
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Well Close
1) See Well Yard, Little Britain.
2) See Wellclose Square.
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close-fisted
Covetous or stingy.
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close-fisted
Stingy, mean. Common in various dialects of England.--Halliwell.
Ibycus is a carking, griping, clos...
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close-aboard
Near or alongside; too close to be safe. "The boat is close aboard," a caution to the officer in com...
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close-butt
Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed clos...
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close contract
One not advertised.
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close-fist
One who drives a hard bargain in petty traffic.
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close harbour
That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...
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close-hauled
The general arrangement or trim of a ship's sails when she endeavours to progress in the nearest dir...
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close pack
The ice floes so jammed together that boring is impossible, and present efforts useless. (See pack-i...
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close-ports
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports.
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close-fights
See close-quarters
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close-quarters
, or close-fights
Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merc...
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close-reefed
The last reefs of the top-sails, or other sails set, being taken in.
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close-sight
The notch in the base-ring of a cannon, to place the eye in a line with the top-sight.
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nines, to the
An expression to denote complete.
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Shinar, The Land of
LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or South...
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Shual, The land of
Land of the fox, a district in the tribe of Benjamin (1 Sam. 13:17); possibly the same as Shalim (9:...
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Sinim, The land of
(Isa. 49:12), supposed by some to mean China, but more probably Phoenicia (Gen. 10:17) is intended.
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Tob, The land of
A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah ...
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Uz, The land of
Where Job lived (1:1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21), probably somewhere to the east or south-east of Palest...
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keep the land aboard
Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit.
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Benjamin, The Land Of
The proximity of Benjamin to Ephraim during the march to the promised land was maintained in the ter...
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Canaan, The Land Of
(lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those w...
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Shalim, The Land Of
(the land of foxes), a district through which Saul passed on his journey in quest of his father's as...
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Shalisha, The Land Of
one of the districts traversed by Saul when in search of the asses of Kish. (1 Samuel 9:4) only. It ...
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Shual, The Land Of
a district named in (1 Samuel 13:17) only. It is pretty certain from the passage that it lay north o...
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to speak with
To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse. C...
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gone with
for become of. 'What is gone with it' 'or with him,' for What has become of it or him?--Sherwood's G...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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great with
Intimate with; high in favor with.--Craven Glossary. Dr. Webster notices this word in the same sense...
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sheer to the anchor, to
To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...
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Colossians, The Epistle To The
was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome. (Acts 28:16) (A.D. 62.) The ...
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Galatians, The Epistle To The
was written by the apostle St. Paul not long after his journey through Galatia and Phrygia, (Acts 18...
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Land League
·add. ·- In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parn...
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Land-poor
·adj Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
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Table-land
·noun A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
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land lopers
Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering.
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land lubbers
Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering.
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land pirates
Highwaymen.
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scratch land
Scotland.
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banana-land
n.
slang name for Queensland,where bananas grow in abundance.
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to re-land
To go on shore after having embarked.--Webster.
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land-loper
(Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailor...
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land-lubber
(Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailor...
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burthensome-land
land that yields good crops in general. York. Bus, to bus, to dress. N.
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catch-land
land which is not certainly known to what parish it belongs, and the minister that first gets the ti...
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old land
ground that has lain long untilled, and just ploughed up. The same in Essex is called new lands.
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ope-land
ground ploughed up every year ; ground that is loose and open. S.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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drowned land
Extensive marshes or other water-covered districts which were once dry and sound land.
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land-blink
On Arctic voyages, a peculiar atmospheric brightness on approaching land covered with snow; usually ...
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land-breeze
A current of air which, in the temperate zones, and still more within the tropics, regularly sets fr...
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land-fall
Making the land. "A good land-fall" signifies making the land at or near the place to which the cour...
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land-feather
A sea-cove.
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land ho!
The cry when land is first seen.
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land-ice
Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no channel.
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land-louper
[Dutch.]
Meaning he who flies from this country for crime or debt, but not to be confounded with l...
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land-lubber
A useless longshorer; a vagrant stroller. Applied by sailors to the mass of landsmen, especially tho...
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land-sharks
Crimps, pettifogging attorneys, slopmongers, and the canaille infesting the slums of sea-port towns....
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land-slip
The fall of a quantity of land from a cliff or declivity; the land sliding away so as often to carry...
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land-turn
A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries.
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land-waiters
See landing-waiters.
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lubber-land
A kind of El Dorado in sea-story, or country of pleasure without work, all sharing alike.
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sunk land
Shallows and swamps.
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table-land
Land which is flat-topped, however it may be raised more or less above the ordinary level of the vic...
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totty-land
Certain heights on the side of a hill [probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon totian, to elevate].
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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tarred with the same brush
Equivalent to "birds of a feather."
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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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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
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moor with a spring on the cable, to
See spring.
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heading up the land water
When the flood-tide is backed by a wind, so that the ebb is retarded, causing an overflow.
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Colossians, Epistle to the
Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the sp...
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Romans, Epistle to the
This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, an...
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Thessalonians, Epistles to the
The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles. It was in all probabili...
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Passage to the Hospital
See Christ Church Passage.
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lead, to strike the
See above. Used figurativelyfor to succeed.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 74:
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up to the hub
To the extreme point. The figure is that of a vehicle sunk in the mud up to the hub of the wheels, w...
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battle the watch, to
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions.
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bitt the cable, to
To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...
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box the compass, to
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
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bringing-to the yard
Hoisting up a sail, and bending it to its yard.
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brought to the gangway
Punished.
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capstan, to man the
To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave.
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capstan, to paul the
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...
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capstan, to rig the
To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...
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cut the cable, to
A manœuvre sometimes necessary for making a ship cast the right way, or when the anchor cannot be we...
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drag the anchor, to
The act of the anchors coming home.
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feel the helm, to
To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of...
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fish the anchor, to
To turn up the flukes of an anchor to the gunwale for stowage, after being catted.
♦ Other fish to...
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freshen the nip, to
To veer a small portion of cable through the hawse-hole, or heave a little in, in order to let anoth...
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gain the wind, to
To arrive on the weather-side of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward.
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kick the bucket, to
To expire; an inconsiderate phrase for dying.
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lie the course, to
When the vessel's head is in the direction wished.
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miller, to drown the
To put an overdose of water to grog.
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misrepresentation to the underwriters
, of any fact or circumstance material to the risk of insuring, whether by the insured or his agent,...
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moor the boat, to
To fasten her with two ropes, so that the one shall counteract the other, and keep her in a steady p...
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muffle the oars, to
To put some matting or canvas round the loom when rowing, to prevent its making a noise against the ...
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muzzle to the left!
See muzzle to the right!
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muzzle to the right!
, or muzzle to the left!
The order given to trim the gun to the object.
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raise the metal to
To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun.
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raise the wind, to
To make an exertion; to cast about for funds.
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rig the capstan, to
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...
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scour the seas, to
To infest the ocean as a pirate.
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serve the vent, to
To stop it with the thumb.
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set the chase, to
To mark well the position of the vessel chased by bearing, so that by standing away from her on one ...
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shoot the compass, to
To shoot wide of the mark.
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shoot the sun, to
To take its meridional altitude; literally aiming at the reflected sun through the telescope of the ...
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sight the anchor, to
To heave it up in sight, in order to prove that it is clear, when, from the ship having gone over it...
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stop the vent, to
To close it hermetically by pressing the thumb to it.
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stream the buoy, to
To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...
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strip the masts, to
To clear the masts of their rigging.
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suck the monkey, to
To rob the grog-can. (See monkey.)
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surge the capstan, to
To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul.
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top the glim, to
To snuff the candle.
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top the officer, to
To arrogate superiority.
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trench the ballast, to
To divide the ballast in a ship's hold to get at a leak, or to trim and stow it.
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weather the cape, to
To become experienced; as it implies sailing round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope.
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The author-There has been a wide difference of opinion respecting the authorship of this epistle.
F...
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Philippians, Epistle To The
was St. Paul from Rome in A.D. 62 or 63. St. Paul's connection with Philippi was of a peculiar chara...
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Romans, Epistle To The
The date of this epistle is fixed at the time of the visit recorded in Acts 20:3 during the winter a...
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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lie-to, to
To cause a vessel to keep her head steady as regards a gale, so that a heavy sea may not tumble into...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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met up with
for overtook.--Sherwood's Georgia.
Mich. The common abbreviation fur Michigan.
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bating with child
breeding, gravid. N.
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beating with child
breeding. York.
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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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fell in with
Met by chance.
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parrel with trucks
Is composed of a single rope passing through a number of bull's-eye trucks, sufficient to embrace th...
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will, with a
With all zeal and energy.
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with a will
Pull all together.
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No-man's land
·- Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.
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Shalim, Land of
Land of foxes, a place apparently to the north-west of Jerusalem (1 Sam. 9:4), perhaps in the neighb...
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Shalisha, Land of
Probably the district of Baal-shalisha (2 Kings 4:42), lying about 12 miles north of Lydda (1 Sam. 9...
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Zuph, Land of
(1 Sam. 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel's city, Ramah. It was probably so named after Elkana...
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Van Diemen's Land
the name given to the colony nowcalled Tasmania, by Abel Jansz Tasman, the Dutch navigator,in 1642, ...
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to break up land
To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...
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half-drowned land
Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see).
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neck of land
Dividing two portions of water, or it may be the neck of a peninsula.
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no-man's land
A space in midships between the after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a boat when it is stow...
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Corinthians, First Epistle to the
Was written from Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:8) about the time of the Passover in the third year of the apost...
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Corinthians, Second Epistle to the
Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense exciteme...
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to stand up to the rack
A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...
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to make the fur fly
To claw; scratch; wound severely. Used figuratively.
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muckson up to the huckson
dirty up to the knuckles. S.
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bring by the lee, to
To incline so rapidly to leeward of the course when the ship sails large, or nearly before the wind,...
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bring home the anchor, to
is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...
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capstan, to come up the
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
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capstan, to heave at the
To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described.
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die on the fin, to
An expression applied to whales, which when dying rise to the surface, after the final dive, with on...
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drag for the anchor, to
The same as creep or sweep.
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fly the sheets, to let
To let them go suddenly.
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judge-advocate to the forces
A legal officer whose duty it is to investigate offences previous to determining on sending them bef...
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marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls
To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...
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north passage to the indies
The grand object of our maritime expeditions at a remote period, prosecuted with a boldness, dexteri...
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run, to lower by the
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.
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shake in the wind, to
To bring a vessel's head so near the wind, when close-hauled, as to shiver the sails.
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span in the rigging, to
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...
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stripped to the girt-line
All the standing-rigging and furniture having been cleared off the masts in the course of dismantlin...
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tell that to the marines!
A sailor's exclamation when an improbable story is related to him.
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toss up the bunt, to
In furling a sail, to make its final package at the centre of the yard when in its skin.
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turn the hands up, to
To summon the entire crew on deck.
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whistle for the wind, to
A superstitious practice among old seamen, who are equally scrupulous to avoid whistling during a he...
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whistling psalms to the taffrail
Expending advice to no purpose.
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