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• ports

  , or port-holes. The square apertures in the sides of a ship through which to point and fire the o...

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Cinque Ports

  ·- Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; — viz., Hastings, Romn...

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• air-ports

  Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...

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• ballast-ports

  Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...

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• chase-ports

  The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...

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• entering-ports

  Ports cut down on the middle gun-deck of three-deckers, to serve as door-ways for persons going in a...

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• gun-ports

  See ports. ...

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• gunroom-ports

  In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. ...

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• half-ports

  A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...

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• out-ports

  Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...

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• quarter-ports

  Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...

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• row-ports

  Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...

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• steam-ports

  Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...

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• stern-ports

  The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...

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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. II. ...

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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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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-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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• cinque ports, the

  These are five highly privileged stations, the once great emporiums of British commerce and maritime...

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• Great St. Bartholomew Close

  See Bartholomew Close. ...

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• close the wind, to

  To haul to it. ♦ Close upon a tack or bowline, or close by a wind, is when the wind is on either b...

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• guardian of the cinque ports

  Otherwise lord warden (which see). ...

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• close with the land, to

  To approach near to it. ...

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