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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
·v A heap or store.
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
II. Double ·noun Double beer; strong beer.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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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>>.
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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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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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Double dealer
·- One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
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Double dealing
·- False or deceitful dealing. ·see Double dealing, under <<Dealing>>.
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Double first
·- A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Double pedro
·add. ·- Cinch (the game).
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Double-acting
·adj Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a d...
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Double-bank
·vt To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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Double-banked
·adj Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being ...
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Double-barreled
·adj ·Alt. of Double-barrelled.
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Double-barrelled
·adj Having two barrels;
— applied to a gun.
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Double-breasted
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, ...
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Double-charge
·vt To <<Overcharge>>.
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Double-decker
·noun A man-of-war having two gun decks.
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Double-dye
·vt To dye again or twice over.
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Double-dyed
·adj Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a d...
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Double-ender
·noun A locomotive with pilot at each end.
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Double-entendre
·noun A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or in...
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Double-faced
·adj Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Double-hung
·adj Having both sashes hung with weights and cords;
— said of a window.
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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Double-milled
·adj Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine;
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Double-quick
·noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
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Double-ripper
·noun A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the othe...
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Double-shade
·vt To double the natural darkness of (a place).
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Double-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having two surfaces;
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Double-tongued
·adj Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
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Double-tonguing
·noun A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rap...
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double jug
A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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double-banked
When two opposite oars are pulled by rowers seated on the same thwart; or when there are two men lab...
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double-bitted
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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double-breeching
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language.
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double eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of 10 dollars; value £2, 1 s. 8 d., at the average rate of exchang...
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double-futtocks
Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head.
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double insurance
Where the insured makes two insurances on the same risks and the same interest.
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double-ironed
Both legs shackled to the bilboe-bolts.
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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double-star
Two stars so close together as to be separable only with a telescope. They are either optically so o...
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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star, double
See double-star.
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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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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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Double Hood Court
North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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double-image micrometer
Has one of its lenses divided, and separable to a certain distance by a screw, which at the same tim...
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
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physical double-star
See double-star and binary system.
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double cocoa-nut
See sea cocoa-nut
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East Smithfield Double Passage
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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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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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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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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