get afloat

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• Afloat

  ·adv & ·adj Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. II. Afloat ·adv & ·adj Unfixed; moving wit...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• afloat

  Borne up and supported by the water; buoyed clear of the ground; also used for being on board ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Get

  ·noun Jet, the mineral. II. Get ·noun Artifice; contrivance. III. Get ·noun Fashion; manner; custo...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• get

  One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hell-afloat

  A vessel with a bad name for tyranny. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jack afloat

  A sailor. Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Get-penny

  ·noun Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Get-up

  ·noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• over-get

  to overtake ; he is but a little before, you will soon over-get him. N. ...

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

• fore-man afloat

  The dockyard officer in charge of the shipwrights working on board a ship not in dock. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• get-a-pull

  The order to haul in more of a rope or tackle. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• to get the wrong pig by the tail

  is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.