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Standard
·noun The sheth of a plow. II. Standard ·noun A large drinking cup. III. Standard ·adj Not of the ...

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Standard
There were several" Standards "in the City used for the supply of water with conduits or cisterns in...

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standard
Formerly, in ship-building, was an inverted knee, placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, and ha...

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Hanging
·noun Death by suspension; execution by a halter. II. Hanging ·adj Suspended from above; pendent; a...

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Hanging
(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather t...

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hanging
A word expressive of anything declining in the middle part below a straight line, as the hanging of ...

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Hanging
Hangings The "hanging" was a curtain or 'covering' to close an entrance; one was placed before the ...

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Knee
·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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knee
Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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Standard-bred
·adj Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes u...

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Standard-wing
·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...

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royal standard
See standard. ...

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standard-deals
Those planks of the pine or fir above 7 inches wide and 6 feet long: under that length they are know...

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standard-knees
See deck standard-knees. ...

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hanging-blocks
These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...

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hanging-clamp
A semicircular iron, with a foot at each end to receive nails, by which it is fixed to any part of t...

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hanging-compass
A compass so constructed as to hang with its face downwards, the point which supports the card being...

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hanging-knees
Those which are applied under the lodging-knees, and are fayed vertically to the sides. ...

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hanging-stage
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...

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hanging-stoves
Used for ventilating or drying between decks. ...

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Knee jerk
·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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Knee-crooking
·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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Knee-deep
·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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Knee-high
·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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Knock-knee
·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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Thick-knee
·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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red-knee
n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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dagger-knee
A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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gammon-knee
A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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heel-knee
The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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knee-timber
That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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stem-knee
In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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stern-knee
Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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Standard in Cornhill
At the east end of Cornhill, where the four streets met, in the middle of the street (S. 189). It s...

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Standard in Westcheap
In the middle of Cheapside, nearly opposite the south end of Honey Lane, east of Bread Street (Leake...

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deck standard-knees
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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Hanging Sword Alley
East out of Whitefriars Street, at No. 22, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First menti...

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Hanging Sword Court
South out of Fleet Street and west to Hanging Sword Alley, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 167...

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hanging hook-pots
Tin utensils fitted for hanging to the bars before the galley-grate. ...

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hanging the rudder
So as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces, constantly in boats, and frequen...

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The Standard in Fleet Street
Opposite the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 110, 394). First mention: " The...

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knee of the head
A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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Standard in the Old Bailey
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate. ...

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