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double deck-nails
See deck-nails. ...

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Deck
·v A heap or store. II. Deck ·v The roof of a passenger car. III. Deck ·v A pack or set of playing...

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clout-nails
Short nails with large heads for the soles of strong shoes.--Hartshorne's Shropshire. ...

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hang-nails
Slivers, which hang from the roots of the nails, and reach to the tips of the fingers.--Forby's Voca...

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ang-nails
corns on the feet. Cumb. ...

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boat-nails
Those supplied for the carpenter's use are of various lengths, generally rose-headed, square at the ...

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clamp-nails
Such nails as are used to fasten clamps; they are short and stout, with large heads. ...

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clench-nails
They are much used in boat-building, being such as can be driven without splitting the boards, and d...

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clincher-nails
Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c., which clinch by turning back the p...

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clout-nails
[Fr. clouter]. To stud with nails, as ships' bottoms and piles were before the introduction of sheet...

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composition nails
Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, ...

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copper-nails
These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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doubling-nails
The nails commonly used in doubling. ...

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flat-nails
Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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lead-nails
Small round-headed composition nails for nailing lead. ...

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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...

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ribbing-nails
Similar to deck-nails, but not so fine; they have large round heads with rings, so as to prevent the...

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scupper-nails
Short nails with very broad flat heads, used to nail the flaps of the scuppers, so as to retain the ...

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sheathing-nails
These are used to fasten wood-sheathing, and prevent the filling-nails from tearing it too much. Tho...

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spike-nails
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tree-nails
Long cylindrical oak or other hard wood pins, driven through the planks and timbers of a vessel to c...

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weight-nails
Somewhat similar to deck-nails, but not so fine, and with square heads; for fastening cleats and the...

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Half-deck
·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>. II. Half-deck ·noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat sh...

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Quarter-deck
·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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Turret deck
·add. ·- A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vesse...

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Water deck
·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. ...

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berth-deck
The 'tween decks. ...

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deck, to
A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails." ...

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deck-beams
See beams. ...

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deck-cargo
, otherwise deck-load (which see). ...

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deck-cleats
Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, ...

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deck-hook
The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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deck-house
An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...

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deck-load
Timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels....

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deck-pipe
An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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deck-pumps
In a steamer, are at the side of the vessel, worked with a lever by manual power, to supply addition...

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deck-seam
The interstices between the planks. ...

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deck-sheet
That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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deck-stopper
(See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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deck-tackle
A purchase led along the decks. ...

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flush-deck
A continued floor laid from the stem to the stern, upon one range, without any break. ...

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forecastle-deck
The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...

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fore-deck
That part from the fore-mast to the bows. ...

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grating-deck
A light movable deck, similar to the hatch-deck, but with open gratings. ...

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gun-deck
See decks. ...

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half-deck
A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...

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hatch-deck
Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...

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hurricane-deck
A light deck over the saloon of some steamers. ...

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mess-deck
The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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quarter-deck
That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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spar-deck
This term is loosely applied, though properly it signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a ve...

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under deck
The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks. ...

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upper deck
The highest of those decks which are continued throughout the whole length of a ship without falls o...

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bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

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jack-sharp-nails
a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb. ...

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nails of sorts
Nails used in carpentry under the denominations of 4, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, and 40 penny-nails, all of d...

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deck-beam knees
The same as lodging-knees. ...

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deck standard-knees
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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jack's quarter-deck
The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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on deck there!
The cry to call attention from aloft or below. ...

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quarter-deck nettings
See netting. ...

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quarter-deck officers
A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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odds plut and her nails
A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

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mate of the lower-deck
An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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mate of the main-deck
The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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walk the quarter-deck, to
A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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lee-side of the quarter-deck
Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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running out, and running in, the lower deck guns
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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