guest-warp boom

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• Guest

  ·vi To be, or act the part of, a guest. II. Guest ·vt To receive or entertain hospitably. III. Gue...

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• Guest

  [Hospitality] ...

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• Warp

  ·vt To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. II. Warp ·v Four; ·esp., four herrings; a cast. ·see <<Cast>...

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• warp

  to lay eggs ; a hen warps or warys. N. ...

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• warp

  A rope or light hawser, employed occasionally to transport a ship from one place to another in a por...

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• Boom

  ·vi To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. II. Boom ·noun A pole with a conspicuous top, se...

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• boom

  A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particula...

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• Guest rope

  ·- The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. ...

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• Guest-chamber

  The spare room on the upper floor of an Eastern dwelling (Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11). In Luke 2:7 the w...

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• bar-guest

  a ghost, all in white, with large saucer eyes, commonly appearing near gates or stiles, there called...

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• Guess warp

  ·- A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; — so called because it is necessary...

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• Warp knitting

  ·add. ·- A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more cont...

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• mould-warp

  the same ; from the Low Dutch, WORPEN, to cast forth, and MOLDE, earth. N. ...

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• guess-warp

  , or guest-rope. A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to m...

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• Gib boom

  ·- ·see Jib boom. ...

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• Torpedo boom

  ·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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• boom along

  To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...

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• bentinck-boom

  That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly...

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• boom-boats

  Those stowed on the booms. ...

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• boom-cover

  The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

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• boom-irons

  Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...

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• boom-jigger

  A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...

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• boom-mainsail

  See main-sail. ...

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• driver-boom

  The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...

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• jib-boom

  A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...

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• main-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• swinging-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in ...

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• Guest, Lady Charlotte(Bertie)

  (1812-1895) Dau. of the 9th Earl of Lindsey, m. in 1833 Sir Josiah J. Guest, a wealthy ironmaster, ...

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• boom-brace pendant

  A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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• flying jib-boom

  A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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• square-sail boom

  A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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• studding-sail boom

  A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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• top your boom

  See boom. ...

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• top a boom, to

  To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...

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• run out a warp, to

  To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...

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• under-run a warp, to

  To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...

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