dungaree-stuff

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• Dungaree

  ·noun A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. ...

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• Stuff

  ·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion. II. Stuff ·vt Paper stock ground ready for use. III. Stuff ·n...

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• stuff

  A coat of stuff, a term used for any composition laid on to ships' spars, bottom, &c. Also, square t...

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• dungaree-settler

  n. Now obsolete. See quotation. 1852. Anon, `Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections ofSixteen Ye...

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• dungaree-duck

  A name given to a small dried fish in Bombay. ...

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• Split stuff

  ·add. ·- Timber sawn into lengths and then split. ...

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• burnt-stuff

  n. a geological term used by miners.See quotation. 1853. Mrs. Chas. Clancy, `Lady's Visit to Gold ...

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• split-stuff

  n. timber sawn into lengths andthen split. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. ...

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• bread-stuff

  Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering. This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...

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• housen-stuff

  Household furniture. On the first day of May, at 1w o'clock, if the tenant isn't out, an officer go...

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• diminishing stuff

  In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...

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• small stuff

  The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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• thick stuff

  Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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• line out stuff

  To mark timber for dressing to shape. ...

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