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watch-tackle
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Watch
·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping.
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watch
The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...
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Tackle
·noun To supply with tackle.
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tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mi...
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tackle
A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England.
TO TACKLE
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tackle
A purchase formed by the connection of a fall, or rope, with two or more blocks. When a power sustai...
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watch and watch
The arrangement of the crew in two watches.
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Half
·adj Part; side; behalf.
II. Half ·vt To halve. [Obs.] ·see <<Halve>>.
III. Half ·adj Consisting o...
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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Anchor watch
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.
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Watch meeting
·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
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Watch House
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...
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dumb watch
A venereal bubo in the groin.
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afternoon-watch
The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M.
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anchor-watch
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...
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comparison watch
The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer.
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dog-watch
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...
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first watch
The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight.
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hack-watch
, or job-watch
(which see).
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harbour-watch
A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...
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job-watch
, or hack-watch
, for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...
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larboard-watch
The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...
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middle-watch
The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M.
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morning watch
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M.
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quarter-watch
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...
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watch-bill
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...
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watch-glasses
The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations the...
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watch-setting
In the army, retreat, or the time for mounting the night-guards.
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Fish-tackle
·noun A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used ...
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Top-tackle
·noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
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cat-tackle
A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...
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deck-tackle
A purchase led along the decks.
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fish-tackle
A tackle employed to hook and draw up the flukes of a ship's anchor towards the top of the bow, afte...
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fore-tackle
A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...
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ground-tackle
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...
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hoisting-tackle
A whip, a burton, or greater purchase, as yard-arm tackles, &c.
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jigger-tackle
A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions abo...
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luff-tackle
A purchase composed of a double and single block, the standing end of the rope being fast to the sin...
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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quarter-tackle
A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...
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spike-tackle and cant-falls
The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship.
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tackle-fall
The part hauled upon in any tackle, simple or compound.
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tail-tackle
A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...
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top-tackle
A large tackle, or properly pendant, hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope, and to the de...
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train-tackle
A tackle which is during action hooked to an eye-bolt in the train of a gun-carriage, and to a ring-...
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truss-tackle
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...
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winding-tackle
A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block, and one double or triple movable block. It ...
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Half blood
·noun A person so related to another.
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Half nelson
·add. ·- A hold in which one arm is thrust under the corresponding arm of the opponent, generally be...
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Half tone
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of Half-tone.
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Half-blooded
·adj Degenerate; mean.
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Half-boot
·noun A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. ·see <<Cocker>>, and Congress boot, under <<C...
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Half-bound
·noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
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Half-bred
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-breed
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-brother
·noun A brother by one parent, but not by both.
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Half-caste
·noun One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Als...
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Half-clammed
·adj Half-filled.
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Half-cracked
·adj Half-demented; half-witted.
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Half-deck
·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>.
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Half-decked
·adj Partially decked.
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Half-faced
·adj Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
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Half-fish
·noun A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
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Half-hatched
·adj Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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Half-heard
·adj Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
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Half-hearted
·adj Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
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Half-hourly
·adj Done or happening at intervals of half an <<Hour>>.
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Half-learned
·adj Imperfectly learned.
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Half-length
·adj Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-mast
·noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mou...
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Half-moon
·noun The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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Half-pike
·noun A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a s...
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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Half-ray
·noun A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, ...
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Half-read
·adj Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
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Half-sighted
·adj Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
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Half-sister
·noun A sister by one parent only.
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Half-strained
·adj Half-bred; imperfect.
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Half-sword
·noun Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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Half-timbered
·adj Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry;
— said of buildings.
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Half-tone
·add. ·noun A half step.
II. Half-tone ·add. ·noun A half-tone photo-engraving.
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Half-tounue
·noun A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
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Half-wit
·noun A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
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Half-witted
·adj Weak in intellect; silly.
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Half-yearly
·adj Two in a year; semiannual.
— ·adv Twice in a year; semiannually.
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half cock
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half-beams
Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...
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half-cock
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half-davit
Otherwise fish-davit (which see).
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half-deck
A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...
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half-flood
See flood.
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half-galley
See galley.
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half-hitch
Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...
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half-man
A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man.
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half-mast
The lowering a flag in respect for the death of an officer.
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half-moon
An old form of outwork somewhat similar to the ravelin, originally placed before the salients of bas...
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half-pike
An iron spike fixed on a short ashen staff, used to repel the assault of boarders, and hence frequen...
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half-point
A subdivision of the compass card, equal to 5° 37′ of the circle.
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half-ports
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
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half-sea
The old term for mid-channel.
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half-speed!
An order in steam navigation to reduce the speed. (See full speed!)
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half-timbers
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
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half-top
The mode of making ships' tops in two pieces, which are afterwards secured as a whole by what are te...
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Old Watch House, Bishopsgate
On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard.
"Ye olde Watch Hous...
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Watch House, Barbican
At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746).
Removed i...
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Watch House, Bishopsgate
See Old Watch House.
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Watch House, Minories
Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...
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call the watch
This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...
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keeping a watch
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty.
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muster the watch
A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M.
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setting the watch
The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...
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anchor-stock tackle
A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...
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gun-tackle purchase
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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racking a tackle or laniard
The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...
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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used.
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shifting a tackle
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
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top burton-tackle
See burton.
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top-tackle pendant
The pendant used with the above. The top-mast is swayed up by a top-rope or hawser. The pendant, whi...
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winding-tackle pendant
A strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head, and forming the support of the winding-tackle.
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Half seas over
·- Half drunk.
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Half Moon Alley
1) Out of Jewin Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in th...
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Half Moon Court
1) West out of Aldersgate Street, with a passage north into Half Moon Alley (q.v.), in Aldersgate Wa...
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Half Moon Passage
1) West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 157, to Bartholomew close, eastern end in Aldersgate Ward, ...
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Half Moon Street
West out of Bishopsgate Street Without. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-O.S. 1880).
Forme...
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Half Moon, Aldersgate
A tenement so called in parish of St. Bartholomew Smithfield, adjoining shops in parish of St. Botol...
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Half Moon, Cheapside
Messuage so called in Westchepe in parish of Blessed Mary Colechurch, 23 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 4...
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Half Paved Court
East out of Dorset Street to Bridewell Precinct, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 188...
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half seas over
Almost drunk.
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half seas over
Intoxicated; drunk. A sailor's expression.
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half-breadth plan
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan.
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half-drowned land
Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see).
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half-minute glass
See glass.
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half seas over
Nearly intoxicated. This term was used by Swift.
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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.)
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half-topsails, under
Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon.
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half-turn ahead!
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!)
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three half-hitches are more than a king's yacht wants
An exclamatory remark to a green hand, meaning that two are enough.
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midshipman's watch and chain
A sheep's heart and pluck.
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watch, chain, and seals
A sheep's head And pluck.
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battle the watch, to
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions.
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mate of a watch
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...
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officer of the watch
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch.
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up-and-down tackle
A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...
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Half Moon Alley, Bethlem
South out of Bethlem to Petty France. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
It is sh...
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Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
See Half Moon Street.
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Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside
See Half Moon Alley.
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Half Moon, Bishopsgate Without
Described in a Release of 1543 as "le Signe de le hulfe Mone" belonging to St. Michael's Church, Cor...
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Half Moon, East Smithfield
Messuage called the Half Moon, in East Smithfield, in parish of St. Botolph Without Aldgate (Strype,...
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tack and half-tack
Working to windward, or along shore, by long and short boards, or legs, alternately.
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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
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Tackle House and Ticket Porters
This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...
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feeding-part of a tackle
That running through the sheaves, in opposition to the standing part.
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running part of a tackle
Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...
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standing part of a tackle or rope
The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Alley
North out of Half Moon Alley, Little Moorfields (Dodsley, 1761-Lockie, 1816). In Cripplegate Ward Wi...
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Street
South out of Half Moon Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-O.S. 1848-51).
Site now oc...
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Half Moon Alley, Court, Bishopsgate
See Flying Horse Yard.
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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly.
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half-breadth of the rising
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...
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half-laughs and purser's grins
Hypocritical and satirical sneers.
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minute and half-minute glasses
See glass.
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Ball Alley, Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
Out of Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Boyle, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
Not nam...
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Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...
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Half Moon Court, Aldgate High Street
South out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of the ward. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M...
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White Horse and Half Moon Stables
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746).
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