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Drift
·noun Anything driven at random.
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drift
The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...
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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way.
II. Way ·adv <<Away>>.
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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...
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Star drift
·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...
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drift-bolts
Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts.
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drift-ice
The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.)
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drift-mud
Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...
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drift-net
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...
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drift-pieces
Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...
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drift-sail
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...
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spoon-drift
A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...
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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...
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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course.
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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft.
II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.
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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2.
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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance.
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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S.
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gainest-way
the nearest way. N.
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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm.
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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S.
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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...
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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...
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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S.
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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin.
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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...
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covert-way
See covered way.
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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...
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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace.
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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...
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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...
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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...
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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...
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milky way
See via lactea.
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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor.
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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...
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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective.
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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way.
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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...
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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly.
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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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'way aloft!
or 'way up!
The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...
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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill.
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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...
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heavy drift-ice
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...
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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...
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right-of-way
n.
a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...
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caper corner-way
Diagonally.
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fetch head-way
or stern-way.
Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern.
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fetch way, to
Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea.
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gather way, to
To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm.
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give way together
So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated.
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keeping her way
The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...
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lose way, to
When a ship slackens her progress in the water.
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lost her way
When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor.
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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water.
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pilot's fair-way
, or pilot's water.
A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed.
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sea-way measurer
A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse.
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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...
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cast the wrong way
See wrong way.
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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course.
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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost.
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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...
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give way with a will
Pull heartily together.
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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street.
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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...
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which way does the wind lie?
What is the matter?
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