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• give way together

  So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated. ...

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• Give

  ·vi To have a misgiving. II. Give ·vi To become soft or moist. III. Give ·vi To give a gift or gif...

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• Way

  ·noun Progress; as, a ship has way. II. Way ·adv <<Away>>. III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...

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• way

  Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...

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• give way with a will

  Pull heartily together. ...

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• give best

  v. Australian slang, meaning toacknowledge superiority, or to give up trying at anything. 1883. Ke...

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• Four-way

  ·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. ...

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• Three-way

  ·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. ...

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• Two-way

  ·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...

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• Water way

  ·- ·same·as Water course. ...

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• Way shaft

  ·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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• Way-going

  ·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. ...

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• Way-goose

  ·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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• Way-wise

  ·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. ...

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• way-bill

  A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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• carpet-way

  a green way, a way on the turf. S. ...

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• gainest-way

  the nearest way. N. ...

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• leech-way

  the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...

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• spur-way

  a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S. ...

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• way-bit

  (or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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• way-bread

  plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...

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• whapple-way

  a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S. ...

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• companion-way

  The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin. ...

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• covered way

  In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...

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• covert-way

  See covered way. ...

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• drift-way

  Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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• fair-way

  The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...

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• freshen way

  When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace. ...

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• fresh way

  Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...

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• head-way

  A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...

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• lee-way

  What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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• milky way

  See via lactea. ...

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• right way

  When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor. ...

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• sea-way

  The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...

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• steerage-way

  When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective. ...

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• stern-way

  The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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• stoach-way

  The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...

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• tide-way

  The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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• under way

  A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...

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• 'way up!

  See way aloft! ...

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• 'way aloft!

  or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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• way-gate

  The tail-race of a mill. ...

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• wrong way

  When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...

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• to give him jessy

  is to give him a flogging. A vulgarism of recent origin. Well, hoss, you've slashed the hide off 'e...

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• give a spell

  To intermit or relieve work. (See spell.) ...

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• give chase, to

  to make sail in pursuit of a stranger. ...

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• give her sheet

  The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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• Great White Way

  ·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...

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• right-of-way

  n. a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...

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• caper corner-way

  Diagonally. ...

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• fetch head-way

  or stern-way. Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern. ...

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• fetch way, to

  Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea. ...

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• gather way, to

  To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm. ...

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• keeping her way

  The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

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• lose way, to

  When a ship slackens her progress in the water. ...

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• lost her way

  When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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• make head-way

  A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water. ...

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• pilot's fair-way

  , or pilot's water. A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed. ...

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• sea-way measurer

  A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse. ...

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• to give him the mitten

  This phrase is used of a girl who discards her sweetheart. She gave him the mitten means that she ga...

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• to give it to one

  is to rate, scold, or beat him severely.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. Used in the same sense in America. ...

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• give her so and so

  The direction of the officer of the watch to the midshipman, reporting the rate of sailing by the lo...

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• Out-of-the-way

  ·adj ·see under Out, ·adv ...

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• angle of lee-way

  The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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• cast the wrong way

  See wrong way. ...

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• make lee-way, to

  To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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• make stern-way, to

  To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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• deaden a ship's way, to

  To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...

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• Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Foster Street. ...

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• moor a cable each way, to

  Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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• which way does the wind lie?

  What is the matter? ...

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