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Cutting
·adj Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. II. Cutting ·adj Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting ...

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Cutting
The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut. 14:1; 1 Kings 18...

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cutting
The adjusting of a cask or spar, or turning it round. ...

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Rigging
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rig>>. II. Rigging ·noun DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains,...

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rigging
Clothing. I'll unrig the bloss; I'll strip the wench. Rum Rigging; fine clothes. The cull has rum ri...

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rigging
A general name given to all the ropes or chains employed to support the masts, and arrange the sails...

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Screw-cutting
·adj Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe. ...

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cutting-grass
n. Cladium psittacorum,Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae. It grows very long narrowblades whose thin rigid e...

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back-cutting
When the water-level is such that the excavation of a canal, or other channel, does not furnish eart...

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cutting down
Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...

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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry. ...

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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...

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cutting in
Making the special directions for taking the blubber off a whale, which is flinched by taking off ci...

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rigging-loft
A long room or gallery in a dockyard, where rigging is fitted by stretching, serving, splicing, seiz...

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rigging-mats
Those which are seized upon a vessel's standing rigging, to prevent its being chafed. ...

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rigging out
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar. ...

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rigging-stopper
See stopper of the cable. ...

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standing rigging
That part which is made fast, and not hauled upon; being the shrouds, backstays, and stays for the s...

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cutting a feather
It is common when a ship has too broad a bow to say, "She will not cut a feather," meaning that she ...

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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...

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cutting his painter
Making off suddenly or clandestinely, or "departed this life." ...

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fit rigging, to
To cut or fit the standing and running rigging to the masts, &c. ...

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span of rigging
The length of shrouds from the dead-eyes on one side, over the mast-head, to the dead-eyes on the ot...

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turning in rigging
The end of a vessel's shrouds carried round the dead-eyes, laid back and secured by seizings. ...

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rattle down rigging, to
or, to rattle the shrouds. To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...

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set up rigging, to
To take in the slack of the shrouds, stays, and backstays, to bring the same strain as before, and t...

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span in the rigging, to
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...

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