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Stage
·noun A floor or story of a house. II. Stage ·noun A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of...

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stage
A carriage for conveying passengers; a stage-coach.--Worcester. We sometimes use mail-stage for mail...

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stage
Planks let over the ship's sides by ropes, whereon the people may stand when repairing, &c. ♦ A fl...

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Floating
·noun The second coat of three-coat plastering. II. Floating ·noun Floating threads. ·see Floating ...

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Stage director
·add. ·- One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the ...

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Stage fright
·add. ·- Nervousness felt before an <<Audience>>. ...

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Stage manager
·add. ·- One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, pr...

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Stage-struck
·adj Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an <<Actor>>. ...

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stage driver
A stage-coachman. ...

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airing-stage
A wooden platform, on which gunpowder is aired and dried. ...

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cable-stage
A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. ...

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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle. ...

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hanging-stage
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...

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Floating charge
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Floating lien. ...

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Floating lien
·add. ·- A charge, lien, ·etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from ...

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floating academy
See campbell's academy. ...

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floating hell
The hulks. ...

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floating anchor
A simple machine consisting of a fourfold canvas, stretched by two cross-bars of iron, rivetted in t...

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floating battery
A vessel expressly fitted for action in harbours or sheltered waters, having heavier offensive and d...

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floating bethel
An old ship fitted up in a commercial port for the purpose of public Worship. ...

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floating bridge
A passage formed across a river or creek by means of bridges of boats, as over the Douro, Rhine, &c....

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floating coffin
(See frapping a ship.) A term for the old 10-gun brigs. ...

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floating dam
A caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock. ...

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floating dock
See caisson. ...

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floating light
A vessel moored off rocks or sand-banks, hoisting lights at night. ...

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floating pier
As the stage at Liverpool. ...

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floating graving-dock
A modified camel (which see). ...

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