The balustrade work, or ornamental moulding across a square stern, where the counter terminates.
See head rails. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husban...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adv At or against the front or face. II. Counter ·vt Money; coin; — used in contempt. III. Count...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A term which enters into the composition of divers words of our language, and generally implies oppo...
Teeth. SEA PHRASE. ...
Those forming the upper fence of the bulwarks on each side of the quarter-deck and poop in men-of-wa...
See rails. ...
Narrow mouldings raised on a vessel's stern. ...
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
Those mouldings which are placed at the knuckles of the stern-timbers. ...
The stanchions and rail-work in front of the poop. (See breast-work and fife-rails.) ...
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...
·- The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. ...
·- One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. ...
·noun A <<Counterpoise>>. ...
·adj ·see <<Compony>>. ...
·adj Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; — said of animals borne in a coat of arms...
·adj Running in opposite directions; — said of animals borne in a coast of arms. ...
·adj Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors...
·noun A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll...
·adj Leaping from each other; — said of two figures on a coast of arms. ...
·noun A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. ...
·add. ·- A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other mac...
See Compter Alley, Compter Court. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Works effected outside the place by the garrison during a siege, to enfilade, command, or otherwise ...
That portion of water diverted from the main stream of a current by the particular formation of the ...
A word often used for contravallation. ...
The converse of mould (which see). ...
The disturbed state of the sea after a gale, when, the wind having changed, the sea still runs in it...
Those holes which are made for the heads of bolts or nails to be sunk in, so as to be even with the ...
Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...
See counter-approaches. ...
The counter between the upper counter and the rail under the lights. ...
See counter. ...
The counter between the wing transom and the rail. (See counter.) ...
A cant name used in Ireland for whiskey. ...
in the marine engine. (See lever.) Also in many marine barometers, where it slides and is fixed by a...
Is bracing the head-yards one way, and the after-yards another. The counter-brace is the lee-brace o...
The stern timber which partakes of the shape of the top-side, and heels upon the end of the wing-tra...
Curved pieces of timber extending from the bows on each side to the continuation of the ship's stem,...
(See stern-rails.) ...
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...