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Barge
·noun A large boat used by flag officers. II. Barge ·noun A large omnibus used for excursions. III...

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The Barge
A large messuage and tenements in the parish of St. Stephen Walbrook on the south side of Bucklersbu...

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barge
A boat of a long, slight, and spacious construction, generally carvel-built, double-banked, for the ...

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Crane
·add. ·noun The American blue heron (Ardea herodias). II. Crane ·noun A siphon, or bent pipe, for d...

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Crane
(Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7). In both of these passages the Authorized Version has reversed the Hebrew ord...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
The Crane
1) A house in Crooked Lane demised 15 Chas. I. for the use of the parish of St. Michael (End. Ch. Re...

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crane
n. common English bird-name. InAustralia used for (1) the Native-Companion (q.v.), Grusaustralianus...

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crane
A machine for raising and lowering great weights, by which timber and stores are hoisted upon wharfs...

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Crane
The crane (Grus cinerea) is a native of Europe and Asia. It stand about four feet high. Its color is...

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Barge Yard
South out of Bucklersbury at No.20 (P.O. Directory). In Cheap Ward. First mention: O. and M. 1677. ...

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barge-mate
The officer who steers when a high personage is to visit the ship. ...

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barge-men
The crew of the barge, who are usually picked men. Also, the large maggots with black heads that inf...

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bread-barge
The tray in which biscuit is handed round. ...

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Titan crane
·add. ·- A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting cra...

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Water crane
·- A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotiv...

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Crane Court
1) West out of Lambeth Hill in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Between Peter's Hil...

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nankeen crane
or Nankeen Bird, or Nankeen Night Heron n. the Australian bird Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmel. Both ...

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crane-lines
Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...

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steam-crane
A crane worked by means of a steam-engine. ...

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Three Crane Stairs
At the south end of Queen Street, on the Thames, in Vintry Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 13-Lockie...

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Three Crane Street
In Thames Street (Strype, ed. 1755). Not named in the maps. ...

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Three Crane Tavern
South out of Poultry, opposite St. Mildred's Church (Strype, maps, ed. 1720 and 1755). Cleared away...

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Back Alley, Three Crane Lane
A passage to the Thames out of Three Crane Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). In Vintry Ward. The all...

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