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harbour
A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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breast-gaskets
An old term for bunt-gaskets. ...

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long-gaskets
Those used for sea service; the opposite of harbour-gaskets (which see). ...

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Harbour Lane
South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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bank-harbour
That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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blind-harbour
One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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close harbour
That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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harbour-dues
See port-charges. ...

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harbour-guards
Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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harbour-log
That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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harbour-master
An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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harbour-reach
The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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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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hidden harbour
That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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island harbour
That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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river-harbour
That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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shoaled-harbour
That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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tidal harbour
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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tide or tidal harbour
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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Cole-Harbour Lane
1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

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Cole Harbour Stairs
At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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macquarie harbour vine
See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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grape, macquarie harbour
or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n. name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...

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macquarie harbour grape
or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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vine, macquarie harbour
or Macquarie Harbour Grape (q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy. 1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...

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harbour-duty men
Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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bar of a harbour
See bar of a port ...

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luff into a harbour, to
To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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thwart-marks, to a harbour
Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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