flash vessels

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• Flash

  ·noun A <<Pool>>. II. Flash ·noun To trick up in a showy manner. III. Flash ·noun Slang or cant of...

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• flash

  1) Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash

  a supply of water from the locks on the Thames, to assist the barges. S. Any little pool. North. ...

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

• flash

  The laminæ and grain-marks in timber, when cut into planks. Also, a pool. Also, in the west, a river...

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• mortar vessels

  See bombI ...

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• fishing-vessels

  A general term for those employed in the fisheries, from the catching of sprats to the taking of wha...

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• surveying vessels

  Those equipped for examining coasts, dangers, &c.; their utility is unquestionable. Some of the smal...

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• Flash boiler

  ·add. ·- A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of ...

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• Flash burner

  ·add. ·- A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark. ...

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• flash panneys

  Houses to which thieves and prostitutes resort. Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth)...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash song

  or flash A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash ken

  A house that harbours thieves. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash lingo

  The canting or slang language. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash man

  A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flash rim

  In carronades, a cup-shaped enlargement of the bore at the muzzle, which facilitates the loading, an...

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• vessels of paper

  Half a quarter of a sheet. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• over-sea vessels

  Ships from foreign parts, as distinguished from coasters. ...

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• to flash the hash

  To vomit. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to flash in the pan

  To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flash in the pan

  An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...

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• pay a vessel's bottom, to

  To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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