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Capstan
·noun A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drum...
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capstan
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A mechanical arrangement for lifting great weights. There is a variety of capsterns, but the...
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Crab
·adj Sour; rough; austere.
II. Crab ·vt To beat with a crabstick.
III. Crab ·noun The zodiacal con...
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crab
To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crab
n.
Of the various Australian species ofthis marine crustacean, Scylla serrata alone is largeenough ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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crab
A wooden pillar, the lower end of which being let down through a ship's decks, rests upon a socket l...
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capstan-barring
An obsolete sea-punishment, in which the offender was sentenced to carry a capstan-bar during a watc...
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capstan-bars
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...
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capstan-room
See room.
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capstan-step
(See step of the capstan.)
The men march round to the tune of a fiddle or fife, and the phrase of ...
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capstan-swifter
A rope passed horizontally through notches in the outer ends of the bars, and drawn very tight: the ...
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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drum-capstan
A contrivance for weighing heavy anchors, invented by Sir S. Morland, who died in 1695.
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jeer-capstan
One placed between the fore and main masts, serving to stretch a rope, heave upon the jeers, and tak...
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main-capstan
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan.
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Crab tree
·- ·see under <<Crab>>.
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Crab-yaws
·noun A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard e...
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Glass-crab
·noun The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for i...
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Crab Court
See Clothier Street.
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crab lanthorn
A peevish fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crab louse
A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.
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crab shells
Shoes. IRISH.
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squeeze crab
A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow.
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crab-hole
n.
a hole leading into a pit-likeburrow, made originally by a burrowing crayfish, and oftenafterwar...
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crab-tree
n. i.q. bitter-bark (q.v.).
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scrub-crab
n.
a Queensland fruit. The largedark purple fruit, two inches in diameter, of Sideroxylonaustrale, ...
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angular crab
An ugly long-armed crustacean the Goneplax angulata with eyes on remarkably long stalks.
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carle-crab
The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus; also of the partan or common crab.
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crab-boat
Resembles a large jolly-boat.
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crab-windlass
A light windlass for barges.
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harper-crab
See tommy harper.
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hermit-crab
A name applied to a group of crabs (family Paguridæ), of which the hinder part of the body is soft, ...
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king-crab
The Limulus polyphemus of the West Indies.
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soldier-crab
A name for the hermit-crab (which see).
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capstan, surge the
Is the order to slacken the rope which is wound round the barrel while heaving, to prevent it from r...
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capstan-bar pins
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping.
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drumhead of capstan
A broad cylindrical piece of elm, resembling a millstone, and fixed immediately above the barrel and...
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catch a crab
In rowing, when an oar gets so far beneath the surface of the water, that the rower cannot recover i...
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barrel of a capstan
The cylinder between the whelps and the paul rim, constituting the main-piece.
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capstan, to man the
To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave.
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capstan, to paul the
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...
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capstan, to rig the
To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...
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rig the capstan, to
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...
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step of the capstan
A solid block of wood fixed between two of the ship's beams to receive the iron spindle and heel of ...
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surge the capstan, to
To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul.
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capstan, to come up the
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
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capstan, to heave at the
To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described.
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