harbour-watch

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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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• Watch

  ·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...

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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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• watch and watch

  The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...

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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-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-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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• watch-tackle

  A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...

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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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• 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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• half-watch tackle

  A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...

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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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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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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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• 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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