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Dead
·adj Bringing death; deadly.
II. Dead ·adj Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
III. Dea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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dead
This word is vulgarly used in the sense of utter, complete. Ex. "A dead beat," i. e. a complete beat...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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-head
(suffix.) A variant of -hood.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Head
·noun Power; armed force.
II. Head ·noun The antlers of a deer.
III. Head ·noun Tiles laid at the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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head
n.
the rammer for crushing quartz ingold-mining.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p.7:
«Forty addi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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head
face ; I told him to his head, I told him to his face. Berks.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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head
The upper part or end of anything, as a mast-head, a timber-head. Also, an ornamental figure on a sh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dead beat
·- ·see <<Beat>>, ·noun, 7.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dead-eye
·noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dead-hearted
·adj Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
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Dead-reckoning
·noun ·see under Dead, a.
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Dead-stroke
·adj Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
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Stone-dead
·adj As dead as a stone.
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Dead Sea
The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the "sa...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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dead cargo
A term used by thieves, when they are disappointed in the value of their booty.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-louse
Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus ship of war.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead men
A cant word among journeymen bakers, for loaves falsely charged to their masters' customers; also em...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-bird
n.
In Australia, a recent slangterm, meaning «a certainty.» The metaphor is frompigeon-shooting, wh...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead-finish
n.
a rough scrubtree.
1) Albizzia basaltica, Benth., N.O. Leguminosae.
2) Acacia farnesiana, Will...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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a dead set
A concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.--Grose, Slang Dict. This phrase seems to be taken ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-alive
Dull, inactive, moping.--Barnes's Dorset Glossary. We often hear the expression, "He is a dead-alive...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead heads
Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead letter
A writing or precept without any authority or force; a letter left in a post office and not called f...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-angle
In fortification, is an angle receiving no defence, either by its own fire or that of any other work...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead-calm
A total cessation of wind; the same as flat-calm.
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dead-doors
Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out...
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dead-eye
, or dead man's eye.
A sort of round flattish wooden block, or oblate piece of elm, encircled, and...
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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...
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dead-freight
The sum to which a merchant is liable for goods which he has failed to ship.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
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dead-lift
The moving of a very inert body.
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dead-lights
Strong wooden shutters made exactly to fit the cabin windows externally; they are fixed on the appro...
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dead-lown
A completely still atmosphere.
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dead-men
The reef or gasket-ends carelessly left dangling under the yard when the sail is furled, instead of ...
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dead-months
A term for winter.
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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...
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dead-reckoning
The estimation of the ship's place without any observation of the heavenly bodies; it is discovered ...
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dead-rising
In ship-building, is that part of a ship which lies aft between the keel and her floor-timbers towar...
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dead-ropes
Those which do not run in any block.
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dead-shares
An allowance formerly made to officers of the fleet, from fictitious numbers borne on the complement...
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dead-sheave
A scored aperture in the heel of a top-mast, through which a second top-tackle pendant can be rove. ...
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dead-ticket
Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...
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dead-water
The eddy-water under the counter of a ship under way; so called because passing away slower than the...
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dead weight
A vessel's lading when it consists of heavy goods, but particularly such as pay freight according to...
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dead wood
Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...
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dead works
All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...
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Dead Sea
This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century afte...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship.
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Addle-head
·noun ·Alt. of Addle-pate.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cittern-head
·noun Blockhead; dunce;
— so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved hea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cubbridge-head
·noun A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
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Death's-head
·noun A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of de...
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Dragon's head
·- ·Alt. of Dragon's tail.
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Feather-head
·noun A frivolous or featherbrained person.
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Giddy-head
·noun A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
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Head gear
·noun ·Alt. of <<Headgear>>.
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Head-cheese
·noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pr...
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Head-hunter
·noun A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and ...
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Head-lugged
·adj Lugged or dragged by the head.
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Hot-head
·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
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Pope's head
·add. ·- A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, ·etc., also for washing windows.
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Shock-head
·adj Shock-headed.
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Snake's-head
·noun The Guinea-hen flower;
— so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales ...
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Torsion head
·add. ·- That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
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Tough-head
·noun The ruddy duck.
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Tow-head
·noun The hooded merganser.
II. Tow-head ·noun An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
III. Tow-head...
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Turk's-head
·add. ·noun The melon cactus.
II. Turk's-head ·add. ·noun Any of several species of Echinocactus.
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Woolly-head
·noun A <<Negro>>.
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Head-bands
(Heb. kishshurim), properly girdles or belts for the waist (Isa. 3:20, R.V., "sashes;" Jer. 2:32, re...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Head-dress
Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., "bonnets;" R.V., "hea...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bishop's Head
A messuage so called in Coleman Street in parish of St. Stephen 27 Eliz. 1585 (Lond. I. p.m. III. p....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Boar's Head
On the north side of Great Eastcheap in the parish of St. Clement Eastcheap, at Nos. 20-22, near the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bore's Head
Mentioned in Circuit of St. Giles' parish (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 87).
Boar's Head, Cripplegate,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Bull Head
A tavern so called within the precinct of St. Martin le Grand, 32 H. viii. 1541 (L. and P. H. VIII. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
...
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The Horse Head
A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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King's Head
1) Parish of St. Gregory.
A capital messuage, in parish of St. Gregory, in ward of Castle Baynard, ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Moryan's Head
In Bread Street, given to the Parish of All Hallows, 9 Eliz. (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
No la...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Paul's Head
A hostel so called near " Poulescheyae" in parish of St. Gregory, in Castle Baynard Ward (Strype, Ed...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Rammes Head
Brewhouse of Roger James called "The Rammes Head" in parish of All Hallows Barking, 1591 (Maskell, p...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Saracen's Head
1) See The Horse Head and King's Head.
2) South out of Little Carter Lane in parish of St. Mary Mag...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cod's head
A stupid fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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head rails
Teeth.
SEA PHRASE.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jolter head
A large head; metaphorically a stupid fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sheep's head
Like a sheep's head, all jaw; saying of a talkative man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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swelled head
A disorder to which horses are extremely liable, particularly those of the subalterns of the army. T...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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big-head
n.
a fish. The name is used locallyfor various fishes; in Australia it is Eleotrisnudiceps, Castln....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bull-head
n.
The name is applied to manyfishes of different families in various parts of the world,none of wh...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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copper-head
n.
See under snake.
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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head-station
n.
the principal buildings,including the owner's or manager's house, the hut, store, etc.,of a shee...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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leather-head
n.
another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.), Philemon corniculatus, Lath.See Tropidorhynchus.
1847. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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maori-head
n.
a swamp tussock, so called froma fancied resemblance to the head of a Maori. (Compare Black-boy....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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nigger-head
n.
1) Name given in New Zealandto hard blackstones found at the Blue Spur and other miningdistricts...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to head off
To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.'
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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head-cheese
The ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of a cheese.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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snake-head
An object of dread to travellers on railways. The end of an iron rail, which sometimes is thrown up ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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gattle-head
a forgetful person. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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angel-head
The hook or barb of an arrow; probably angle-head.
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beetle-head
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
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billet-head
A carved prow bending in and out, contrariwise to the fiddle-head (scroll-head). Also, a round piece...
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black-head
The pewitt-gull (Larus ridibundus).
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blether-head
A blockhead.
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boulder-head
A work against the encroachment of the sea, made of wooden stakes.
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bull-head
, or bull-jub
A name of the fish called miller's thumb (Cottus gobio).
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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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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dun-head
In east-country barges the after-planking which forms the cabin.
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family-head
When the stem was surmounted with several full-length figures, as was the custom many years ago.
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fell-head
The top of a mountain not distinguished by a peak.
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fiddle-head
When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...
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figure-head
A carved bust or full-length figure over the cut-water of a ship; the remains of an ancient supersti...
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floor-head
This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...
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futtock-head
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
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gilt-head
, or gilt-poll.
The Sparus aurata, a fish of the European and American seas, with a golden mark be...
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grey-head
A fish of the haddock kind, taken on the coast of Galloway.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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head-boards
The berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails.
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head-cringles
Earing-cringles at the upper clues or corners of a sail.
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head-earings
The laniards to haul out the earings. (See earings.)
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head-fast
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
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head-holes
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...
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head-knees
Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...
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head-netting
An ornamental netting used in merchant ships instead of the fayed planking to the head-rails.
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head-piece
A term for the helmet.
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head-pump
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
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head-quarters
The place where the general, or commanding officer, takes up his quarters. Also, the man-of-war, or ...
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head-rails
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
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head-rope
That part of the bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is according...
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head-sails
A general name for all those sails which may be set on the fore-mast and bowsprit, jib, and flying j...
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head-sea
A name given to the waves when they oppose a ship's course, as the ship must rise over, or cut throu...
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head-sheets
Specially jibs and staysail sheets, before the fore-mast.
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head-stick
A short round stick with a hole at each end, through which the head-rope of some triangular sails is...
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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...
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head-wind
A breeze blowing from the direction of the ship's intended course. Thus, if a ship is bound N.E. a N...
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mast-head
The upper part of a mast above the rigging.
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ram-head
An old word for halliard-block.
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rudder-head
The upper end of the rudder-stock. Also, the flat surface of the trunk, which in cabins and ward-roo...
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scroll-head
A slightly curved piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished of...
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skunk-head
An American coast-name for the pied duck.
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tiller-head
The extremity of the tiller, to which the tiller-ropes are attached.
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trundle-head
The lower drumhead of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lo...
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turk's head
An ornamental knot, so called from resembling a turban, used on side-ropes, &c.; it is worked with a...
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warren-head
A northern term for a dam across a river.
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weather-head
The secondary rainbow.
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dead-wood fence
n.
The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...
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dead man's eye
See dead-eye
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dead-men's effects
When a seaman dies on board, or is drowned, his effects are sold at the mast by auction, and the pro...
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dead-on-end
The wind blowing directly adverse to the vessel's intended course.
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dead-wood knees
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
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Saracen's Head Inn, Saracen's Head Yard
South out of Camomile Street. In Lime Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1848-51).
The site is now oc...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Baptist's Head Court
East out of Whitecross Street in Cripplegate Ward Without (O.S. 1880).
First mention: P.C. 1732.
F...
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Boar's Head Court
1) East out of Gracechurch Street at No. 80 by Leadenhall Market (Elmes, 1831).
First mention: "Bor...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Boar's Head Tavern
At Smithfield Bars, near Adam and Eve Alley, on the north side of West Smithfield. In Farringdon War...
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The Bore's Head Tavern
North out of Aldgate High Street, near the Blue Boar Inn (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27). In Portsoken...
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Bore's Head Alley
1) In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury.
Mentioned in Regist. Test. Lond. in 1540 (Strype, ed. 1720, ...
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Bores Head Court
1) South out of Fleet Street, west of Water Lane.
See Boar's Head Court.
2) South-east out of Cow ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bores Head Tavern
In Knightrider Street at its junction with Do Little Lane (S. 365).
No later reference.
Site now o...
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Bore's Head, Cheap
A messuage called the "Bores Hedde" in Chepe, in parish of All Saints in Hony lane, 6 Ed. VI. (Lond....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Buck's Head Court
South out of Great Distaff Lane, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Removed for the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bull Head Court
1) East out of Snow Hill, near the Conduit, in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708).
Not named in...
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Bull Head Tavern
On the south side of Holborn Hill, east of Shoe Lane, adjoining Plumtree Court. In Farringdon Ward W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bull Head Yard
North out of Knightrider Street, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupied by offi...
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Bull's Head Court
East out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L.C.C. List, 1912).
See Bloomfield...
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Bull's Head Passage
1) East out of Gracechurch Street at No. 81 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within. Leading in...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Caesar's Head Court
In Crutched Friars (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Cock's Head Court
West out of Golden Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Cook...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cook's Head Court
See Cock's Head Court.
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Duke's Head Court
East out of White Cross Street at No. 42, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
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Duke's Head Passage
East out of Paternoster Square, at No. 23, to Ivy Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.
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Duke's Head Yard
West out of Rose Court, Tower Street (Lockie, 1816).
It seems to be shown in O.S. but not named.
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Emperor's Head Lane
See Bell Wharf Lane.
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Emperor's Head Alley
See Bell Wharf Lane.
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The King's Head, Cheapside
See The Crowned Seld.
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King's Head Court
1) North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 1799).
Only partly bui...
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King's Head Inn
1) On the west side of the Old Change, at No.17, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, 1816...
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King's Head Tavern
On the east side of Chancery Lane, with a passage south to Fleet Street (Rocque, 1746).
Site has be...
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Nagg's Head Court
West out of Bartholomew Lane, in Broad Street Ward (O. and 31. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Not mention...
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Nagg's Head Inn
South out of London Wall at Little Winchester Street, opposite the Church of All Hallows in ye Wall ...
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Nag's Head Alley
1) West out of the Minories. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746 - Boyle, 1799).
The site seems to be o...
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Nag's Head Court
1) North out of Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, opposite Green Dragon Court (O. and M. 1677-B...
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Nag's Head Inn
On the west side of Grub Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, built on a place called " Soldiers Cou...
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Pope's Head Alley
In Broad Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
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Pope's Head Court
In Bell Yard (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
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Queen's Head Court
1) East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C 1732-L.C.C. List, 1901).
Site now o...
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Queen's Head Passage
South out of Newgate Street, at No. 41, to Paternoster Row. In Farringdon Ward Within (P.O. Director...
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Queen's Head Tavern
1) On the west side of Bishopsgate Street, with a passage into Queen's Head Alley, leading into Broa...
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Ram's Head Court
West out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
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Saracen's Head Inn
On the west side of Friday Street, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, 1816).
Strype descr...
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Saracen's Head Yard
On the south side of Aldgate at No.5 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
Marks the site of the Sarac...
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White Head Court
In Duke's Place (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
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