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·vt To forge or counterfeit. II. Fashion ·vt To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. I...

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cutter
A one horse sleigh. And then - we'll go sleighing, in warm raiment clad, With fine horses neighing...

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cutter
to fondle or make much of, as a hen or goose of her young. ...

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cutter
A small single-masted, sharp-built broad vessel, commonly navigated in the English Channel, furnishe...

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Stay
·noun Hindrance; let; check. II. Stay ·vi To continue in a state. III. Stay ·vi To change tack; as...

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stay
A cuckold. ...

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stay
A large strong rope extending from the upper end of each mast towards the stem of the ship, as the s...

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Fashion-monger
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Hay-cutter
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Sward-cutter
·noun A lawn mower. II. Sward-cutter ·noun A plow for turning up grass land. ...

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daisy cutter
A jockey term for a horse that does not lift up his legs sufficiently, or goes too near the ground, ...

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bristol fashion and ship-shape
Said when Bristol was in its palmy commercial days, unannoyed by Liverpool, and its shipping was all...

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cutter-brig
A vessel with square sails, a fore-and-aft main-sail, and a jigger-mast with a smaller one. (See ket...

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fashion-pieces
The fashion of the after-part of a ship, in the plane of projection. They are the hindmost timbers i...

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hatchet-fashion
Cutting at the heads of antagonists, instead of thrusting. ...

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pilot cutter
A very handy sharp-built sea-boat used by pilots. ...

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bob stay
A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard. ...

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sand-stay
n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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to stay put
To remain in order; not to be disturbed. A vulgar expression. The levees and wharves of the First M...

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a-stay
Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...

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belly-stay
Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above. ...

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fore-stay
See stay. ...

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jib-stay
The stay on which the jib is set. ...

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short stay
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...

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stay apeek
When the cable and fore-stay form a line. (See apeek.) ...

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stay-rods
See stay-bars ...

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stay-bars
, or stay-rods. Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....

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staysail-stay
The stay on which a staysail is set. ...

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triatic stay
A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its big...

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cat harping fashion
Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM. ...

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anchor-stock-fashion
The method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks...

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stay-a-while
n. a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.). ...

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inner jib-stay
A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...

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bread and butter fashion
One slice upon the other. John and his maid were caught lying bread and butter fashion.--To quarrel ...

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man-of-war fashion
A state of order, tidiness, and good discipline. ...

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eye of a stay
That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...

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stay-tackles, fore and main
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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