cod-fisher's crew

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• Crew

  ·noun The Manx shearwater. II. Crew ·Impf of <<Crow>>. III. Crew ·- imp. of <<Crow>>. IV. Crew ·n...

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• crew

  A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three o...

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• crew

  Comprehends every officer and man on board ship, borne as complement on the books. There are in ship...

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• Cod

  ·noun A pillow or cushion. II. Cod ·noun A small bag or pouch. III. Cod ·noun A husk; a pod; as, a...

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• cod

  A cod of money: a good sum of money. ...

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• cod

  n. This common English name of the Gadus morrhua is applied to many fishes in Australia ofvarious f...

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• cod

  a pillow or cushion ; princod, a pin-cushion; a horse-cod, a horse-collar. N. Princod is also figura...

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• cod

  The centre of a deep bay. The bay of a trawl or seine. Also, the Gadus morrhua, one of the most impo...

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• Fisher's Alley

  1) West out of Dorset Street to Water Lane in Farringdon Ward Without, in the precinct of Whitefriar...

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• Fisher's Folly

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• Fisher's Rents

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• the canting crew

  Thieves, beggars, and gypsies, or any others using the canting lingo. See lingo. ...

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• boat's crew

  The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...

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• carpenter's crew

  Consists of a portion of the crew, provided for ship-carpentry and ship-building. In ships of war th...

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• Cod liver

  ·noun The liver of the common cod and allied species. ...

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• Cultus cod

  ·- ·see <<Cod>>, and Buffalo cod, under <<Buffalo>>. ...

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• cod piece

  The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

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• rum cod

  A good purse of gold. CANT. ...

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• black-cod

  n. a New Zealand fish, Nototheniaangustata. ...

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• blue-cod

  n. name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...

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• murray-cod

  n. an important fresh-waterfood-fish, Oligorus macquariensis, Cuv. and Val., called Kookoobal by th...

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• rock-cod

  n. called also Red-Cod in NewZealand, Pseudophycis barbatus, Gunth., family Gadidae. In New Zealand...

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• cod-glove

  a thick glove, without fingers, to handle turf. Exm. ...

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• pin-cod

  a pincushion. ...

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• prin-cod

  a pin-cushion. Figuratively, a short fat man or woman. ...

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• bean-cod

  A small fishing-vessel, or pilot-boat, common on the sea-coasts and in the rivers of Spain and Portu...

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• blown cod

  A split cod, half dried by exposure to the wind. Blown is also frequently applied to bloated herring...

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• cod-bait

  The large sea-worm or lug, dug from the wet sands. The squid or cuttle, herrings, caplin, any meat, ...

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• cod-line

  An eighteen-thread line. ...

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• cod-sounds

  The swim-bladders of the cod-fish, cured and packed for the market; the palates also of the fish are...

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• rock-cod

  A species of cod found on a rocky bottom. ...

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• tommy cod

  A very small variety of the Gadus morrhua, which mostly appears in the winter months; whence it is a...

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• cod-whangers

  See whangers ...

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• captain copperthorne's crew

  All officers; a saying of a company where everyone strives to rule. ...

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• black rock-cod

  n. an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from th...

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• cloudy-bay cod

  n. a New Zealand name for the Ling (q.v.). See also cod. ...

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• red rock-cod

  n. name given in New South Walesto the fish Scorpaena cardinalis, Richards., family Scorpaenidae, m...

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• incompetency, or insufficiency, of a merchantman's crew

  A bar to any claim on warrantry; as it is an implied condition in the sea-worthiness of a ship, that...

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• insufficiency of a merchantman's crew

  This bars the owner's claim on the sea-worthy warrant. (See incompetency of a merchantman's crew.) ...

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