dumb-cleat

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• Cleat

  ·vt To strengthen with a cleat. II. Cleat ·noun A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to...

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• Dumb

  ·vt To put to silence. II. Dumb ·adj Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. III. Dumb ·adj D...

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• Dumb

  From natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps....

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• rolling-cleat

  Synonymous with rolling-chock. ...

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• tapered cleat

  A piece of wood bolted under the beams, to support them when pillars are not used. ...

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• thumb-cleat

  In shape resembling a thumb. They arrest the topsail-reef-earings from slipping, and are also lashed...

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• Dumb-bell

  ·noun A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used ...

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• Dumb-waiter

  ·noun A framework on which dishes, food, ·etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to anot...

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• dumb arm

  A lame arm. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dumb-founded

  Silenced, also soundly beaten. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dumb glutton

  A woman's privities. ...

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• dumb watch

  A venereal bubo in the groin. ...

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• dumb-founded

  Stupefied; struck dumb with fear and confusion. This word is in the English provincial glossaries an...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dumb-founded

  perplexed, confounded. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• dumb-chalder

  A metal cleat bolted to the back of the stern-post for one of the pintles to rest upon, to lessen bo...

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• dumb-craft

  Lighters, lumps, or punts, not having sails. Also, a name for the screws used for lifting a ship on ...

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• dumb-pintle

  A peculiar rudder-strap. (See pintles.) ...

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• dumb-scraping

  Scraping wet decks with blunt scrapers. ...

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• out-earing cleat

  This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle. ...

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• cleat a gun, to

  To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...

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