harbour-master

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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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• Master

  ·noun A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. II. Master ·vi To be skillful; to <<Excel>>. III. Ma...

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• master

  The epithet for the captain or commander of a merchant vessel. When England first became a maritime ...

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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 ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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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-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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• Baggage master

  ·- One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. ...

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• Harbor master

  ·- An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. ...

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• Master vibrator

  ·add. ·- In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator...

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• Mint-master

  ·noun The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively. ...

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• Wreck-master

  ·noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, ·etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. ...

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• gentleman's master

  A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kyrk-master

  church-warden. N. ...

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• attendant master

  A dockyard official. (See master-attendant.) ...

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• ballast-master

  A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...

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• barrack-master

  The officer placed in charge of a barrack. ...

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• beach-master

  A superior officer, captain, appointed to superintend disembarkation of an attacking force, who hold...

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• ice-master

  A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...

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• master-attendant

  An officer in the royal dockyards appointed to assist in the fitting or dismantling, removing or sec...

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• master mariner

  Shipmaster or captain of a merchant vessel. ...

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• master-shipwright

  The chief superintendent in the building and repairing of ships in the royal dockyards. ...

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• prize-master

  The officer to whom a prize is given in charge to carry her into port. ...

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• quarter-master

  A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...

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• vendue master

  A commercial and marine auctioneer. ...

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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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• post master general

  The prime minister, who has the patronage of all posts and places. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• master and commander

  A title which, in 1814, was simplified to commander, the next degree above lieutenant; he ranks with...

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• master-at-arms

  In former times was an officer appointed to command the police-duty of a ship, to teach the crew the...

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• master of misrule

  An officer of an hour or two, when the hands were piped "to mischief." The lord or abbot of misrule ...

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• quarter-master general

  Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• master of the mint

  A gardener. ...

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• master of the rolls

  A baker. ...

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• master of the wardrobe

  One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor. ...

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• master of the fleet

  A master on board the commander-in-chief's ship, who has a general superintendence of the stores iss...

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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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• master of a ship-of-war

  An officer appointed by the commissioners of the navy to attend to the navigating a ship under the d...

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