flat-nails

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flat

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flat

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

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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...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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-aft

  The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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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 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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• clout-nails

  Short nails with large heads for the soles of strong shoes.--Hartshorne's Shropshire. ...

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• hang-nails

  Slivers, which hang from the roots of the nails, and reach to the tips of the fingers.--Forby's Voca...

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• ang-nails

  corns on the feet. Cumb. ...

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

• boat-nails

  Those supplied for the carpenter's use are of various lengths, generally rose-headed, square at the ...

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• clamp-nails

  Such nails as are used to fasten clamps; they are short and stout, with large heads. ...

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• clench-nails

  They are much used in boat-building, being such as can be driven without splitting the boards, and d...

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• clincher-nails

  Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c., which clinch by turning back the p...

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• clout-nails

  [Fr. clouter]. To stud with nails, as ships' bottoms and piles were before the introduction of sheet...

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• composition nails

  Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, ...

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• copper-nails

  These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• doubling-nails

  The nails commonly used in doubling. ...

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• lead-nails

  Small round-headed composition nails for nailing lead. ...

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• port-nails

  These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...

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• ribbing-nails

  Similar to deck-nails, but not so fine; they have large round heads with rings, so as to prevent the...

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• scupper-nails

  Short nails with very broad flat heads, used to nail the flaps of the scuppers, so as to retain the ...

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• sheathing-nails

  These are used to fasten wood-sheathing, and prevent the filling-nails from tearing it too much. Tho...

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• spike-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• tree-nails

  Long cylindrical oak or other hard wood pins, driven through the planks and timbers of a vessel to c...

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• weight-nails

  Somewhat similar to deck-nails, but not so fine, and with square heads; for fastening cleats and the...

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• bag of nails

  He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack-sharp-nails

  a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb. ...

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• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• nails of sorts

  Nails used in carpentry under the denominations of 4, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, and 40 penny-nails, all of d...

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• odds plut and her nails

  A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose