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Pipe
·noun The key or sound of the voice. II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore. III. Pipe ·n...

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Pipe
(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...

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pipe
n. an obsolete word, explained inquotations. 1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105: «These w...

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pipe
A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...

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Pipe
(Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...

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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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Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe. ...

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Blast pipe
·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...

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Flue pipe
·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...

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Pipe clay
·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...

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Pipe layer
·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...

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Pipe laying
·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe laying ·- The act ...

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Pipe line
·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...

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Pipe-line
·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines. ...

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Soil pipe
·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. ...

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Twire-pipe
·noun A vagabond musician. ...

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Water pipe
·- A pipe for conveying water. ...

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The Pipe Yard
1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...

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clyster pipe
A nick name for an apothecary. ...

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quail-pipe
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...

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whore pipe
The penis. ...

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pipe-fish
n. common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...

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pipe-laying
This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...

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swine-pipe
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...

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blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...

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chain-pipe
An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above. ...

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eduction pipe
A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...

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gas-pipe
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...

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hawse-pipe
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood. ...

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injection-pipe
This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...

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pipe-clay
Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...

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pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. ...

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pipe-fish
A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth. ...

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steam-pipe
See waste steam-pipe. ...

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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-nails
A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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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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Old Pipe Yard
South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). "The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...

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blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

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

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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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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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