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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...

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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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Lines
Were used for measuring and dividing land; and hence the word came to denote a portion or inheritanc...

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lines
The reins, or that part of the bridle which extends from the horse's head to the hands of the driver...

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lines
With shipwrights, are the various plans for determining the shape and form of the ship's body on the...

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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-barge
A low flat-floored lump, fitted for the purpose of carrying a crane, in aid of marine works. ...

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

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Fraunhofer lines
·- The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so call...

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Nobert's lines
·add. ·- Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to...

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Zollner's lines
·add. ·- Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersec...

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artificial lines
The ingenious contrivances for representing logarithmic sines and tangents, so useful in navigation,...

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bow-lines
In ship-building, longitudinal curves representing the ship's fore-body cut in a vertical section. ...

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buttock-lines
In ship-building, the longitudinal curves at the rounding part of the after body in a vertical secti...

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checking-lines
These are rove through thimbles at the eyes of the top-mast and top-gallant rigging, one end bent to...

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clothes-lines
A complete system of parallel lines, hoisted between the main and mizen masts twice a week to dry th...

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clue-lines
Are for the same purpose as clue-garnets, only that the latter term is solely appropriated to the co...

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continued lines
In field-works, means a succession of fronts without any interruption, save the necessary passages; ...

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leech-lines
Ropes fastened to the leeches of the main-sail, fore-sail, and cross-jack, communicating with blocks...

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level-lines
Lines determining the shape of a ship's body horizontally, or square from the middle line of the shi...

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life-lines
Stretched from gun to gun, and about the upper deck in bad weather, to prevent the men being washed ...

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slab-lines
Small ropes passing up abaft a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, led through blocks attached to the tre...

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spider-lines
A most ingenious substitution of a spider's long threads for wires in micrometer scales, intended fo...

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spilling lines
Ropes contrived to keep the sails from blowing away when they are clued up, being rove before the sa...

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yoke-lines
The ropes by which the boat's steerage is managed. ...

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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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bunt slab-lines
Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...

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circumvallation, lines of
Intrenchments thrown up by a besieging army, outside itself, and round the besieged place, but front...

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contravallation, lines of
Continuous lines of intrenchment round the besieged fortress, and fronting towards it, to guard agai...

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hammock gant-lines
Lines extended from the jib-boom end around the ship, triced up to the lower yard-arms, for drying s...

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horizontal ribband lines
A term given by shipwrights to those lines, or occult ribbands, by which the cant-timbers are laid o...

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lines of flotation
Those horizontal marks supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the bottom of a ship,...

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lucky minie's lines
The long stems of the sea-plant Chorda filum. ...

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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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