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• Aft

  ·adv & ·adj Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft. ...

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• aft

  a Saxon word contradistinctive of fore, and an abbreviation of abaft the hinder part of the ship, or...

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• Flat

  ·vi To fall form the pitch. II. Flat ·noun A homaloid space or extension. III. Flat ·noun Somethin...

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• flat

  A bubble, gull, or silly fellow. ...

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• flat

  1) In cant language, a foolish fellow; a simpleton.--Worcester. The London Times, of Sept. 5, 1847,...

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• flat

  In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, a...

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• aft-castle

  An elevation on the after-part of our ships of war, opposed to forecastle, for the purpose of fighti...

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• chock-aft

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• veers aft

  See hauls aft ...

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• hauls aft

  , or veers aft. Said of the wind when it draws astern. ...

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• round-aft

  The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards. ...

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• taken aft

  Complained of on the quarter-deck. ...

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• Alkali flat

  ·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...

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• Flat foot

  ·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...

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• Flat-bottomed

  ·adj Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat. ...

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• Flat-cap

  ·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...

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• Flat-footed

  ·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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• Flat-headed

  ·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail. ...

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• flat cock

  A female. ...

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• flat pea

  n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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• pea, flat

  n. See flat pea. ...

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• to flat out

  To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...

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• flat-footed

  Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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• dead-flat

  The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...

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• flat-aback

  When all the sails are blown with their after-surface against the mast, so as to give stern-way. ...

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• flat-bottomed

  When a vessel's lower frame has but little upward inclination. ...

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• flat calm

  When there is no perceptible wind at sea. ...

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• flat-fish

  The Pleuronectidæ, a family of fishes containing the soles, flounders, turbots, &c., remarkable for ...

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• flat-nails

  Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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• flat seam

  The two edges or selvedges of canvas laid over each other and sewed down. ...

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• flat seizing

  This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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• bearing backstays aft

  To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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• both sheets aft

  The situation of a square-rigged ship that sails before the wind, or with the wind right astern. It ...

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• fore-and-aft

  From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...

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• fore-and-aft sails

  Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...

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• haul aft a sheet

  To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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• brace up and haul aft!

  The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...

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• gather aft a sheet, to

  to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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