Curved bars of iron placed over the ornaments of a ship to defend them from damage.
A ship is said to be in irons when, by mismanagement, she is permitted to come up in the wind and lo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. II. Guard ·noun To fasten by binding; to <<Gir...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
1) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The duty performed by a body of men stationed to watch and protect any post against surprise. A divi...
·- A pair of pistols. II. Barking irons ·- Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. ...
·noun ·pl A pair of blacksmith's tongs. ...
Pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. IRISH. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Handcuffs. ...
corruption of Andirons. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
brand-irons. ...
Certain strips of iron having their edges turned up at an angle to each other; they are of various s...
Large duelling pistols. ...
Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...
The peculiar chisels used for the purpose of caulking: they are the caulking-iron, the making-iron, ...
Consist of a pointed wire used through the vent to prick the cartridge when it is "home," and of a f...
The pintles, gudgeons, and braces of the rudder are frequently so called, though they were usually o...
·noun The van or advanced body of an army. ·see <<Vanguard>>. ...
·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...
·noun The guard or defense of a castle. II. Castle-guard ·noun A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant...
·noun A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack. ...
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who ...
n. Erroneous spelling of Garfish (q.v.). ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
A small proportion of any body of troops on the march, to whom the care of the whole baggage is assi...
A party detached to cover foragers, those wooding, watering, &c. ...
Synonymous with chain-wales. ...
A boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war in any harbour, &c., to observe that the...
Report of guard; a copy of which is delivered at the admiral's office by the officer of the last gua...
A corruption of the word gar-fish. ...
A vessel of war appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbour, and to visit the ships whi...
Officers appointed to superintend the due observance of the quarantine regulations. ...
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...
A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...
That part of the army which brings up and protects the rear. ...
Custom-house officers employed to prevent fraud on the revenue in vessels arriving at, or departing ...
The document rendered in by the guard-boat, of every vessel boarded during her hours of duty, with t...
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...