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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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Piece
·noun A castle; a fortified building. II. Piece ·noun One of the superior men, distinguished from a...

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piece
A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl who is more or less active and skilful in the amorous co...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
piece
A little while. 'Stay a piece.' Provincial in the north of England.--Johnson. The common expression ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
piece
applied to time : Stay a piece ; i. e. a little while. York. ...

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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-knee
A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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Chimney-piece
·noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. ...

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cod piece
The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

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stomach-piece
apron ...

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cart-piece
An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart. ...

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chamber-piece
See chamber ...

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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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dragon piece
A strut or abutment. ...

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face-piece
A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...

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fish-piece
See fish ...

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gunner's piece
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...

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hailshot-piece
A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile. ...

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head-piece
A term for the helmet. ...

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lengthening-piece
The same as short top-timber (which see). ...

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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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pad-piece
See pad ...

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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets. ...

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jaw-piece
See rolling-chock ...

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shoe-piece
A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases inte...

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sweep-piece
A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...

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time-piece
, chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...

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vent-piece
The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns. ...

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wall-piece
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places. ...

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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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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars. ...

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piece of eight
The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar. ...

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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...

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yard-arm piece
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...

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Piece Of Gold
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...

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Piece Of Silver
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...

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main-piece of the rudder
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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chamber of a piece of ordnance
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...

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muzzle of a piece of ordnance
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...

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