The peculiar nails with which the mast coats are fastened.
·noun A <<Petticoat>>. II. Coat ·vt To cover with a coat or outer garment. III. Coat ·noun A coat ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The tunic worn like the shirt next the skin (Lev. 16:4; Cant. 5:3; 2 Sam. 15:32; Ex. 28:4; 29:5). Th...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A piece of tarred canvas nailed round above the partners, or that part where the mast or bowsprit en...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Dress] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
When a person speaks with vociferous fluency, he is said to have hauled his jawing-tacks on board. ...
Making contrary boards. Also, a colloquialism for cross purposes. ...
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...
See short boards. ...
·- A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the...
·add. ·- A short, heavy, double-breasted plaid coat, the design of which is large and striking. ...
·noun A coat made of match-cloth. ...
·- The first coat in plastering; — called also scratchwork. ·see Pricking-up. ...
·adj Having or consisting of three coats; — applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, fl...
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Tuxedo>>. ...
a great coat. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
a great coat. York. ...
A conical canvas fitted over the wedges round the mast, to prevent water oozing down from the decks....
A light coat or defence of mail, concealed under the ordinary dress. ...
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...
A canvas coat affixed to the rudder, encasing the opening in the counter, to prevent the sea from ru...
The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "glittering" (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural f...
"a corselet of scales," a cuirass formed of pieces of metal overlapping each other, like fish-scales...
See King Edward Street. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The chiton shell. ...
The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing. ...
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...