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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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Shot
·pl of Shot.
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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Headed
·adj Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Pot shot
·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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quarter-shot
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
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Addle-headed
·adj ·Alt. of Addle-pated.
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Beetle-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Bluff-headed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
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Buckler-headed
·adj Having a head like a buckler.
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Buffle-headed
·adj Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
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Clear-headed
·adj Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
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Cool-headed
·adj Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
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Dog-headed
·adj Having a head shaped like that of a dog;
— said of certain baboons.
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Dunder-headed
·adj Thick-headed; stupid.
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Feather-headed
·adj Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
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Giddy-headed
·adj Thoughtless; unsteady.
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Gross-headed
·adj Thick-skulled; stupid.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Heavy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Idle-headed
·adj Foolish; stupid.
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Janus-headed
·adj Double-headed.
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Light-headed
·adj Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
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Mad-headed
·adj Wild; crack-brained.
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Muddy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Mushroom-headed
·adj Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a m...
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Nail-headed
·adj Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
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Nott-headed
·adj Having the hair cut close.
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Open-headed
·adj <<Bareheaded>>.
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Pig-headed
·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
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Pudding-headed
·adj <<Stupid>>.
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Puzzle-headed
·adj Having the head full of confused notions.
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Rattle-headed
·adj Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
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Rug-headed
·adj Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
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Sheep-headed
·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
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Shock-headed
·adj Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
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Soft-headed
·adj Weak in intellect.
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Thick-headed
·adj Having a thick skull; stupid.
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Thorn-headed
·adj Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
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Triple-headed
·adj Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
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Wagon-headed
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beetle-headed
Dull, stupid.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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buffle-headed
Confused, stupid.
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chuckle-headed
Stupid, thick-headed.
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hulver-headed
Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid ...
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mutton-headed
Stupid.
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pig-headed
Obstinate.
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totty-headed
Giddy, hare-brained.
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watery-headed
Apt to shed tears.
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dansey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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dausey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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stag-headed
see randle-piked.
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bluff-headed
When a ship has but a small rake forward on, being built with her stem too straight up.
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chowder-headed
Stupid, or batter-brained.
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chuckle-headed
Clownishly stupid; lubberly.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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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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·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-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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·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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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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crowdy-headed jock
A jeering appellation for a north country seaman, particularly a collier; Jock being a common name, ...
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pudding-headed fellow
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
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woolly-headed grass
n.
an indigenousAustralian grass, Andropogon bombycinus, R. Br.
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hammer-headed shark
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saucer-headed bolts
Those with very flat heads.
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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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One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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double deck-nails
See deck-nails.
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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
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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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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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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
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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