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Drag
·vi To fish with a dragnet. II. Drag ·noun A confection; a comfit; a drug. III. Drag ·vt A heavy h...

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drag
To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in order to rob it. CANT. ...

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drag
A machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron encircled with a net, and commonly used to rake...

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ropes
Upon the high ropes; elated, in high spirits, cock-a-hoop. ...

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ropes
guts. N. ...

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ropes
A general name given to all the cordage above one inch in circumference used in rigging a ship; but ...

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Drag line
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Drag rope. ...

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Drag rope
·add. ·- A guide rope. ...

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drag lay
Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. ...

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drag-net
A trawl or net to draw on the bottom for flat-fish. ...

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drag-sail
Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...

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drag-saw
A cross-cut saw. ...

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Rope's-end
·vt To punish with a rope's end. ...

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high ropes
To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
top ropes
To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
high ropes
'Upon the high ropes;' i. e. elated; in high spirits.--Grose, Prov. Dict. To be on the high ropes; ...

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awning-ropes
The ridge and side ropes for securing the awning. ...

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bending ropes
, is to join them together with a bowline knot, and then make their own ends fast upon themselves; n...

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dead-ropes
Those which do not run in any block. ...

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side-ropes
See entering-ropes ...

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entering-ropes
, or side-ropes. Three are sometimes used to aid in climbing the ship's side. They hang from the u...

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foot-ropes
Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...

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hook-ropes
A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it...

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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended. ...

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ridge-ropes
, are of various kinds. Thus the centre-rope of an awning, and those along the rigging to which it i...

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ring-ropes
Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...

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ropes, high
♦ On the high ropes. To be ceremonious, upstart, invested with brief authority. ...

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rope's end
The termination of a fall, and should be pointed or whipped. Formerly much used for illegal punishme...

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tiller-ropes
The ropes which form a communication between the end of the tiller and the barrel of the wheel; they...

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weather-ropes
An early term for those which were tarred. ...

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wheel-ropes
Ropes rove through a block on each side of the deck, and led round the barrel of the steering-wheel....

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drag the anchor, to
The act of the anchors coming home. ...

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drag for the anchor, to
The same as creep or sweep. ...

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marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls
To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...

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