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Windlass
·noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. II. Windlass ·vi To take a rounda...

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windlass
[from the Ang.-Sax. windles]. A machine erected in the fore-part of a ship which serves to ride by, ...

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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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crab
n. Of the various Australian species ofthis marine crustacean, Scylla serrata alone is largeenough ...

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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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spanish windlass
A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is...

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windlass-bitts
See carrick-bitts. ...

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windlass-chocks
Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of small craft, to support the ends of the windl...

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windlass-ends
Two pieces which continue the windlass outside the bitt-heads. ...

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windlass-lining
Pieces of hard wood fitted round the main-piece of a windlass to prevent chafing, and also to enable...

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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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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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sea crab
A sailor. ...

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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-capstan
See crab. ...

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crab-yaws
See yaw. ...

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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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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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