fife-rails

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• Fife

  ·vi To play on a fife. II. Fife ·noun A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chief...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rails

  See head rails. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husban...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rails

  Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• head rails

  Teeth. SEA PHRASE. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• counter-rails

  The balustrade work, or ornamental moulding across a square stern, where the counter terminates. ...

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• fire-rails

  See rails. ...

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• foot-rails

  Narrow mouldings raised on a vessel's stern. ...

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• head-rails

  The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...

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• knuckle-rails

  Those mouldings which are placed at the knuckles of the stern-timbers. ...

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• poop-rails

  The stanchions and rail-work in front of the poop. (See breast-work and fife-rails.) ...

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• quarter-rails

  Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...

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• grapple the rails

  A cant name used in Ireland for whiskey. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rails of the head

  Curved pieces of timber extending from the bows on each side to the continuation of the ship's stem,...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• rails of the stern

  (See stern-rails.) ...

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• bag, of the head-rails

  The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...

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