dumb-craft

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  ·noun Strength; might; secret power. II. Craft ·vt To play tricks; to practice artifice. III. Craf...

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• craft

  [from the Anglo-Saxon word cræft, a trading vessel]. It is now a general name for lighters, hoys, ba...

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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

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• Court-craft

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• Water craft

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• gentle craft

  The art of shoeniaking. One of the gentle craft: a shoemaker: so called because once practised by St...

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• priest-craft

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• ship-craft

  Nearly the same as the Anglo-Saxon scyp-cræft, an early word for navigation. ...

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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

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• dumb arm

  A lame arm. ...

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• dumb-founded

  Silenced, also soundly beaten. ...

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• 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...

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• dumb-founded

  perplexed, confounded. N. ...

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• 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-cleat

  Synonymous with dumb-chalder and thumb-cleat. ...

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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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