Iron hooks fixed on the cheeks of a gun-carriage for dragging the gun along by draught-ropes.
·noun ·see <<Draft>>, ·noun, 7. II. Draught ·noun That which draws. III. Draught ·noun That which ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
or bill, on the pump at aldgate A bad or false bill of exchange. See aldgate. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
, or draft. The depth of water a ship displaces, or of a body of fluid necessary to float a vessel...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(2 Kings 10:27). Jehu ordered the temple of Baal to be destroyed, and the place to be converted to t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa. 37:29; Jer. 16:16; Ezek. 29:4; Job. 41:1, 2; Matt....
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...
They are used to sling a cask by the chimes, or ends of its staves, and are formed by reeving the tw...
The same as light draught of water (which see). ...
Synonymous with futtocks. ...
The same as breast-hooks (which see). ...
Large hooks for catching salmon in the daytime. ...
A kind of sickle formerly applied to the yard-arms, for cutting the rigging of a vessel running on b...
In ship-building, a section supposed to be cut by a plane passing through the middle line of the kee...
The depth of water which a vessel draws when she is empty, or nearly so. ...