See can-buoys.
·noun A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. II. Cone ·vt To render cone-shaped; to bev...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A solid figure having a circle for its base, and produced by the entire revolution of a right-angled...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vi To <<Float>>; to rise like a buoy. II. Buoy ·vt To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking...
A sort of close cask, or block of wood, fastened by a rope to the anchor, to show its situation afte...
·adj Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed ...
·add. ·- A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces. ...
·- A pulley for driving machines, ·etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a...
·add. ·noun A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidae, often found in houses, ·esp. in the...
·noun One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the pla...
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
·- ·see under Buoy, ·noun. ...
A large can-buoy on which is placed, in wicker-work, a bell, which is sounded by the heaving and set...
The rope which attaches the buoy to the anchor, which should always be of sufficient strength to lif...
A buoy made of staves, somewhat in the form of a double cone; large in the middle, and tapering rapi...
Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...
Clearing it of the water which has entered it by leakage, and would otherwise prevent its watching. ...
To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...
To slack out a rope to which a buoy has been attached, and let it go astern, for the purpose of brin...