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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...
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Staff
·noun The round of a ladder.
II. Staff ·noun An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
III. ...
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staff
'To have the staff in one's own hand,' is to keep possession of one's own property, and, consequentl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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staff
A light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoist and display the colours; as, the...
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Cross
·noun Church lands.
II. Cross ·prep Athwart; across.
III. Cross ·vi To be inconsistent.
IV. Cross...
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Cross
In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ its...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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(Holy) Cross
See Crutched Friars.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cross
As the emblem of a slave's death and a murderer's punishment, the cross was naturally looked upon wi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Rock staff
·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
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bauk-staff
a quarter-staff. N.
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gib-staff
1) a hook-stick, pronounced [GHIB]. York.
2) a quarter-staff. N.
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grain-staff
a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S.
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almacantars staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun's amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 d...
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back-staff
A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...
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david's-staff
A kind of quadrant formerly used in navigation.
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dwang-staff
This is otherwise the wrain-staff (which see).
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flag-staff
In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...
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fore-staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...
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futtock-staff
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...
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jack-staff
A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted.
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jacob's staff
, or cross-staff.
A mathematical instrument to take altitudes, consisting of a brass circle, divid...
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rule-staff
A lath about 4 inches in breadth, used for curves in ship-building.
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staff-captain
A designation conferred in 1863 upon masters of the fleet.
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staff-commanders
A designation conferred in 1863 on masters of fifteen years' seniority.
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staff-officer
On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff.
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whip-staff
See whipII
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wrain-staff
A stout billet of tough wood, tapered at its ends, so as to go into the ring of the wrain-bolt, to m...
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Cross-armed
·adj With arms crossed.
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Cross-banded
·adj A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furnitu...
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Cross-bearer
·noun A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
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Cross-birth
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
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Cross-bun
·noun A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
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Cross-buttock
·add. ·noun A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg a...
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Cross-crosslet
·noun A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
...
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Cross-days
·noun ·pl The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
...
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Cross-examination
·noun The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and...
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Cross-examine
·vt To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
...
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Cross-examined
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-examiner
·noun One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
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Cross-examining
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
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Cross-eyed
·adj Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
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Cross-fertilize
·add. ·vt To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual...
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Cross-fertilized
·add. ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-fertilizing
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-garnet
·noun A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an...
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Cross-pawl
·noun ·same·as Cross-spale.
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Cross-purpose
·noun A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
II. Cross-...
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Cross-question
·vt To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
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Cross-questioned
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-question.
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Cross-questioning
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-question.
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Cross-reading
·noun The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns,...
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Cross-spale
·noun ·Alt. of Cross-spall.
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Cross-spall
·noun One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position ...
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Cross-springer
·noun One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Il...
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Cross-stitch
·noun A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch cross...
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
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Cross-tie
·noun A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
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Cross-tining
·noun A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
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Cross-vaulting
·noun Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
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Cross-week
·noun Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
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Holy cross
·- The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
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Peltier's cross
·add. ·- A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.
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Red Cross
·add. ·- The crusaders or the cause they represented.
II. Red Cross ·add. ·- A hospital or ambulanc...
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Broken Cross
At the western end of Cheapside. near the church of St. Michael le Querne. Erected by the Earl of Gl...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cow Cross
See St. John Street.
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Cross Alley
North out of George Alley, with a passage west to Shoe Lane at No. 32. In Farringdon Ward Without (H...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Court
Out of London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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The Cross Keys
Messuages and tenements called the "Cross Keys" and the "Woodwharfe" near Paul's Wharf in parish of ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Lane
1) East out of St. Mary-at-Hill to Harp Lane (P.O. Directory), crossing St. Dunstan's Hill. In Billi...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Street
West out of King Street to Milk Street Market, crossing Laurence Lane (Hatton, 1708-Strype, ed. 1755...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Golden Cross
The sign of the Golden Cross in Temys Street, 1538 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p. 220).
No later ...
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Holborn Cross
Near the Conduit at Snow Hill, in parish of St. Sepulchre. (Stow 387).
First mention: "Holbourn Cro...
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Holy Cross
See Holy Cross.
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Minories' Cross
In Agas' map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill.
It is also shown on Haiward and...
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(St.) Paul's Cross
At the north-east end of the Cathedral (O.S. 1880).
"About the middest of the Churchyard is a pulpi...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Red Cross
1) In Watling Street. Rent given to parish of All Hallows, Bread_Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cross dishonest
A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross bite
One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross buttock
A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pl...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross patch
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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weeping cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Southern Cross
n.
The constellation of theSouthern Cross is of course visible in places farther norththan Australi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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criss-cross
1) A mark in the shape of a cross; especially that of those who cannot sign their own names. Mr. Har...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-fox
A fox whose color is between the common reddish-yellow and the silver-gray, having on its back a bla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-grained
Perverse; troublesome; vexatious.--Johnson.
Or what the plague did Juno mean,
That cross-grain'd...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-patch
An ill-tempered person. A vulgar word, used alike in England and America. Patch is a very old word o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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criss-cross
The mark of a man who cannot write his name.
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cross-bars
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor.
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cross-bitt
The same as cross-piece (which see).
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cross-bored
Bored with holes alternately on the edges of planks, to separate the fastenings, so as to avoid spli...
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cross-bow
An ancient weapon of our fleet, when also in use on shore.
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cross-chocks
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
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cross-fish
A northern name for the asterias or star-fish; so called from the Norwegian kors-fisk. Also, the Ura...
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cross-grained
Not straight-grained as in good wood; hence the perverse and vexatious disposition of the ne'er-do-w...
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cross-head
In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod athwart the cylinder; and there is another fi...
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cross-pawls
See cross-spales.
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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
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cross-sea
A sea not caused by the wind then blowing. During a heavy gale which changes quickly (a cyclone, for...
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cross-somer
A beam of timber.
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cross-spales
or spalls.
Temporary beams nailed across a vessel to keep the sides together, and support the ship...
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cross-swell
This is similar to a cross-sea, except that it undulates without breaking violently.
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
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cross-timbers
See cross-piece.
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cross-trees
Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...
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southern cross
The popular name of a group of stars near the South Pole, which are somewhat in the figure of a cros...
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Ragged Staff Alley
In Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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regimental staff-officers
The surgeon, adjutant, paymaster, assistant-surgeon, and quarter-master of each regiment.
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Andrew Cross Alley
Adjoining the church of St. Andrew Holborn on the west and called with other premises the " Church L...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cow Cross Street
See St. John Street.
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(Holy) Cross, Friars of
House of Crouched or Crossed Fryers founded 1298, at the south-east corner of Hart Street (S. 149). ...
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(Holy) Cross, West Smithfield
Ecclesia Sanctae Crucis infra Hospitale Sancti Bartholomaei in Westsmythefelde Londoniarum pertinet ...
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Cross in Cheapside
See Great Cross in Cheapside.
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Cross Key Court
1) South out of London Wall at No. 44 to Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street War...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Key Square
North out of Little Britain at No. 8 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Without.
First mention: H...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Keys Yard
See Cross Keys Alley.
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Cross Keys Alley
,Cross Keys Inn, Cross Keys Yard
East out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. an...
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Cross Keys Court
1) North-west out of Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
The site ...
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Cross Keys Inn
1) On the south side of Holborn, in Farringdon Ward Without, east of Fetter Lane (O. and M. 1677).
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Gold Cross Court
See Golden Cross Court.
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Golden Cross Court
1) Out of Cateaton Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Named after the s...
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Holborn Cross Street
"Tenements in Holbourne crosse streete" belonging to Wm. Nuttall, 1559 (Ct. H.W. II. 670).
Perhaps ...
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The Red Cross, Cripplegate
Probably a house with this sign, for in an Inquisition 2 Ed. I. Alicia de Batonia is said to have di...
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Red Cross Alley
1) East out of Church Alley to London Bridge (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, i 799). In Bridge Ward Within.
Th...
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Red Cross Court
1) South out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 284, to Elmes, 1831)...
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Red Cross Square
1) North out of Great Tower Street, between Mark Lane and Seething Lane (O.S. 25 in. 1880).
Earlies...
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Red Cross Street
North from No. 1 Fore Street to Barbican at No. 31 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
F...
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Red Cross Tavern
In Barbican at No.32, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed .1720-Elmes, 1831).
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christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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holy-cross toad
n. See catholic frog.
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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cylinder cross-head
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...
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jack cross-trees
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts.
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The Bear and Ragged Staff
A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...
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Bear and Ragged Staff Alley
East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720).
The si...
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Conduit at Holborn Cross
See Holborn Conduit.
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(Holy) Cross or Holy Rood
An old parish in Aldgate Ward, conterminous with the Parish of Holy Trinity (S. 142). Stow tells us ...
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Great Cross in Cheapside
In West Cheap in the parish of St. Peter West Cheap, in the ward of Farringdon Within, opposite the ...
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Red Cross Alley, Minories
See Maidenhead Alley.
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Red Cross Coal Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street, on the west side of London Bridge, near Old Swan (Lockie, 1810 and...
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Stone Cross in Cheap
Hugh of the Stone Cross in the Ward of Chepe is mentioned in 10 Ed. I. 1282 in Cal. L. Bk. B. p.13.
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cross in the hawse
Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...
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pales and cross-pales
The interior shores by which the timbers of a ship are kept to the proper breadth while in frame.
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(St.) Andrews Cross on the Hoop
A tenement and garden so called in Fleet Street in parish of St. Dunstan between the tenement of the...
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Red Cross Street, East Smithfield
North-east out of Butcher Row to Nightingale Lane (Hatton, 1708-Lockie, 1810).
Removed for the form...
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Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, West Smithfield
See Bear Inn.
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(St.) Peter at the Cross of Cheap
See St. Peter Westcheap.
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Red Cross Court, Great Tower Street
See Red Cross Square.
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