gutter-ledge

A cross-bar laid along the middle of a large hatchway in some vessels, to support the covers and enable them the better to sustain any weighty body.

← gutter × guy →

Ledge
·noun A layer or stratum. II. Ledge ·noun A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. III. Ledge ·noun A lo...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
ledge
A compact line of rocks running parallel to the coast, and which is not unfrequent opposite sandy be...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Gutter
·vt To supply with a gutter or gutters. II. Gutter ·vi To become channeled, as a candle when the fl...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Gutter
Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
gutter
n. in Australian goldmining, «the lowerand auriferous part of the channel of an old river of theTer...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
gutter
[Anglo-Saxon géotan, to pour out or shed]. A ditch, sluice, or gote. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Gutter Lane
North out of Cheapside, at 133, to Gresham Street (P.O. Directory), In Farringdon Ward Within. Firs...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
gutter lane
The throat, the swallow, the red lane. See red lane. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
gutter-flags
n. Flags fixed on the surface todenote where the course of a gutter or lead underground hasbeen dis...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris