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Stage
·noun A floor or story of a house. II. Stage ·noun A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of...

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stage
A carriage for conveying passengers; a stage-coach.--Worcester. We sometimes use mail-stage for mail...

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stage
Planks let over the ship's sides by ropes, whereon the people may stand when repairing, &c. ♦ A fl...

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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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Stage director
·add. ·- One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the ...

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Stage fright
·add. ·- Nervousness felt before an <<Audience>>. ...

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Stage manager
·add. ·- One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, pr...

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Stage-struck
·adj Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an <<Actor>>. ...

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stage driver
A stage-coachman. ...

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airing-stage
A wooden platform, on which gunpowder is aired and dried. ...

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cable-stage
A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. ...

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floating stage
For caulkers, painters, &c. ...

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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle. ...

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

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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 standard-knee
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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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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