diminishing stuff

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• Diminishing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Diminish>>. ...

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• Stuff

  ·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion. II. Stuff ·vt Paper stock ground ready for use. III. Stuff ·n...

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• stuff

  A coat of stuff, a term used for any composition laid on to ships' spars, bottom, &c. Also, square t...

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• diminishing plank

  The same as diminishing stuff (which see). ...

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• diminishing strakes

  See black-strake. ...

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• Split stuff

  ·add. ·- Timber sawn into lengths and then split. ...

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• burnt-stuff

  n. a geological term used by miners.See quotation. 1853. Mrs. Chas. Clancy, `Lady's Visit to Gold ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• split-stuff

  n. timber sawn into lengths andthen split. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bread-stuff

  Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering. This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• housen-stuff

  Household furniture. On the first day of May, at 1w o'clock, if the tenant isn't out, an officer go...

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• dungaree-stuff

  A blue or striped cotton cloth much worn by the seafaring classes in India. ...

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• small stuff

  The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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• thick stuff

  Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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• line out stuff

  To mark timber for dressing to shape. ...

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