dagger-knee

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• Dagger

  ·noun A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. II. Dagger ·vt To pierce with a dagger; to <<St...

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• Knee

  ·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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• knee

  Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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• Dagger Alley

  Out of St. Peter's Hill (Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. Name derived from the sign. ...

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• Dagger Court

  North out of Fore Street, at 110, opposite Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Lockie, 1816-El...

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• dagger-piece

  , or dagger-wood. A timber or plank that faces on to the poppets of the bilge-ways, and crosses th...

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• Knee jerk

  ·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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• Knee-crooking

  ·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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• Knee-deep

  ·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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• Knee-high

  ·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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• Knock-knee

  ·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• red-knee

  n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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• gammon-knee

  A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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• heel-knee

  The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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• knee-timber

  That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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• stem-knee

  In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• Three Dagger Court

  1) North out of Fore Street at 110, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L.C.C. List, 1901). ...

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• hanging standard-knee

  A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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• knee of the head

  A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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