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Space
·noun A short time; a while.
II. Space ·noun Walk; track; path; course.
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Rail
·vt To rail at.
II. Rail ·vt To range in a line.
III. Rail ·vt To move or influence by railing.
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rail
n.
common English birdname. There aremany varieties in New Zealand and Australia, especially in the...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rail
A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails a...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rail
a revel, a country wake. Devon.
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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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Anchor space
·add. ·- In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3/, lying along a cushion and bisec...
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Crookes space
·add. ·- The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only...
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Space bar
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Space key.
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Space key
·add. ·- A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
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water-space
The intervening part between the flues of a steamer's boiler.
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T rail
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Third rail
·add. ·- An electric railway using such a rail.
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Water rail
·- Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus ...
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slip-rail
n.
part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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weka, rail
n.
See weka.
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to rail it
To travel by rail-road.
From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rail-car
A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads.
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bow-rail
A rail round the bows.
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breast-rail
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
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false rail
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener.
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forecastle-rail
The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships.
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pedestal-rail
A rail about two inches thick, wrought over the foot-space rail, and in which there is a groove to s...
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sheer-rail
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...
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top-rail
A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops.
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waist-rail
The channel-rail or moulding of the ship's side.
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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>>.
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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.
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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...
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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-rails
Narrow mouldings raised on a vessel's stern.
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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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berth and space
In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...
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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...
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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-hook-shrouds
See futtock-shrouds
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pull foot, to
To hasten along; to run.
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post-and-rail tea
slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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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