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rails
See head rails. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husban...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rails
Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed...
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Foot
·noun The lower edge of a sail.
II. Foot ·vt The size or strike with the talon.
III. Foot ·vt To r...
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foot
The lower end of a mast or sail. Also, the general name of infantry soldiers. Also, the measure of 1...
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head rails
Teeth.
SEA PHRASE.
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counter-rails
The balustrade work, or ornamental moulding across a square stern, where the counter terminates.
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fife-rails
Those forming the upper fence of the bulwarks on each side of the quarter-deck and poop in men-of-wa...
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fire-rails
See rails.
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head-rails
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
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knuckle-rails
Those mouldings which are placed at the knuckles of the stern-timbers.
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poop-rails
The stanchions and rail-work in front of the poop. (See breast-work and fife-rails.)
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quarter-rails
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...
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Ampere foot
·add. ·- A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a cur...
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Bear's-foot
·noun A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell ...
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Bird's-foot
·noun A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, ...
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Candle foot
·add. ·- The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot;
— used a...
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Cat's-foot
·noun A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
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Crow's-foot
·noun ·same·as Bird's-mouth.
II. Crow's-foot ·noun A <<Caltrop>>.
III. Crow's-foot ·noun The wrink...
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Dove's-foot
·noun The <<Columbine>>.
II. Dove's-foot ·noun A small annual species of Geranium, native in Englan...
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Duck's-foot
·noun The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
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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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Fleet-foot
·adj Swift of foot.
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Foot candle
·add. ·- The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot.
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Foot Guards
·pl Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
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Foot pound
·- A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against ...
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Foot poundal
·- A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the fo...
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Foot ton
·add. ·- A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force...
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Foot valve
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
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Foot-sore
·adj Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
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Hen's-foot
·noun An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
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Light-foot
·adj ·Alt. of Light-footed.
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Lion's foot
·- The <<Edelweiss>>.
II. Lion's foot ·- A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which severa...
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Polt-foot
·adj ·Alt. of Polt-footed.
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Sheep's-foot
·noun A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at ...
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Single-foot
·noun An irregular gait of a horse;
— called also single-footed pace. ·see <<Single>>, ·vi.
II. Si...
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Tiger's-foot
·noun A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fash...
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Tiger-foot
·noun ·same·as Tiger's-foot.
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Two-foot
·adj Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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Wolf's-foot
·noun Club moss. ·see <<Lycopodium>>.
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cat's foot
To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and ca...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cloven foot
To spy the cloven foot in any business; to discover some roguery or something bad in it: a saying th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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foot pads
Rogues who rob on foot.
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foot wabbler
A contemptuous appellation for a foot soldier, commonly used by the cavalry.
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to pull foot
To walk fast; to run.
I look'd up; it was another shower, by Gosh. I pulls foot for dear life.--Sam...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-foot
(Genus, polyphemus. Lamarck.) The common name of a crustacea, found in our waters from Massachusetts...
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cats-foot
ground-ivy. Northumb.
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foot-ale
beverage required from one entering on a new occupation. N.
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crow-foot
A number of small lines spreading out from an uvrou or long block, used to suspend the awnings by, o...
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foot-bank
Synonymous with banquette (which see).
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foot-board
The same as gang-board, but not so sailor-like. (See stretchers.)
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foot-boat
A west-country term for a boat used solely to convey foot passengers.
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foot-hooks
Synonymous with futtocks.
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foot-rope
The rope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. (See bolt-rope.)
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foot-ropes
Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...
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foot-valve
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
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foot-waling
The inside planking or lining of a ship over the floor-timbers; it is intended to prevent any part o...
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fore-foot
The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and ...
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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pump-foot
The lower part, or well-end, of a pump.
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under foot
Under the ship's bottom; said of an anchor which is dropped while she has head-way. An anchor is oft...
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grapple the rails
A cant name used in Ireland for whiskey.
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Hare's-foot fern
·- A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock;
— whence the name.
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Five Foot Lane
1) See Fye Foot Lane.
2) Out of Bread Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Qy. = Fye Foot Lane (q.v.).
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Fye Foot Lane
North out of Upper Thames Street at No. 208 (P.O. Directory). Leading to Lambeth Hill. In Queenhithe...
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Fyve Foot Lane
See Fye Foot Lane.
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every foot anon
every now and then. Norf. and Stiff.
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foot it in
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holdi...
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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...
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foot-hook-shrouds
See futtock-shrouds
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pull foot, to
To hasten along; to run.
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rails of the head
Curved pieces of timber extending from the bows on each side to the continuation of the ship's stem,...
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rails of the stern
(See stern-rails.)
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bag, of the head-rails
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail.
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bird's-foot sea-star
The Palmipes membranaceus, one of the Asterinidæ, with a flat thin pentagonal body, of a bright scar...
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let go under foot
See under foot.
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foot-clue of a hammock
See hammock.
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shoe of the fore-foot
See fore-foot, gripe, horse.
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Five Foot Court, Old Fish Street Hill
See Five Foot Lane.
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