flat-aback

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• aback

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• Flat

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• brace aback

  To brace the yards in, so as to lay the sails aback. ♦ To brace about, to turn the yards round for...

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• Alkali flat

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• Flat foot

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• Flat-bottomed

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• Flat-cap

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• Flat-headed

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• flat pea

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• to flat out

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• dead-flat

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• flat-aft

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