deck-nails

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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

  See deck-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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