hard gale

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• Gale

  ·noun A song or story. II. Gale ·vi To sale, or sail fast. III. Gale ·vi To <<Sing>>. IV. Gale ·n...

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• gale

  1) an old bull, castrated. Hants. 2) a tun-dish, used in brewing. N. 3) the vat in which the beer ...

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• Hard

  ·adv Close or near. II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties. III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiousl...

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• hard

  Stale beer, nearly sour, is said to be hard. Hard also means severe: as, hard fate, a hard master. ...

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• hard

  A road-path made through mud for landing at. (See ard.) ...

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• Gale-opithecus

  ·noun A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. ·see <<Colugo>>. ...

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• Loom-gale

  ·noun A gentle gale of wind. ...

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• chocolate-gale

  A brisk N.W. wind of the West Indies and Spanish main. ...

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• feeding-gale

  A storm which is on the increase, sometimes getting worse at each succeeding squall. When a gale fre...

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• fresh gale

  A more powerful wind than a fresh breeze (which see). ...

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• gentle gale

  In which a ship carries royals and flying-kites; force 4. ...

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• heavy gale

  A strong wind, in which a ship is reduced to storm-staysails and close-reefed main-topsail. Force 10...

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• loom-gale

  An easy gale of wind, in which a ship can carry her whole top-sails a-trip. ...

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• moderate gale

  In which a ship carries double reefs in her top-sails. ...

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• steady gale

  A fresh breeze pretty uniform in force and direction. ...

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• strong gale

  That strength of wind under which close-reefed top-sails and storm-staysails are usually carried whe...

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• Hard grass

  ·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...

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• Hard steel

  ·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...

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• Hard-favored

  ·adj Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. ...

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• Hard-featured

  ·adj Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. ...

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• Hard-fisted

  ·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. II. Hard-fisted ·adj Having hard or strong hands; as, a har...

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• Hard-fought

  (·adv Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle. ...

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• Hard-handed

  ·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. ...

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• Hard-headed

  ·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. ...

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• Hard-hearted

  ·adj Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. ...

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• Hard-labored

  ·adj Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. ...

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• Hard-mouthed

  ·adj Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse. ...

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• Hard-shell

  ·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. ...

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• Hard-tack

  ·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. ...

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• Hard-visaged

  ·adj Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. ...

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• die hard

  To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...

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• hard cash

  Silver or gold coin. ...

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• hard drinker

  One who drinks to excess; a drunkard. ...

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• hard money

  A common term for silver and gold, in contradistinction from paper money. ...

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• hard pushed

  To be bard pressed; to be in a difficulty; and especially, as a mercantile phrase, to be hard presse...

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• hard run

  To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed. We knew the Tam...

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• blowing hard

  Said of the wind when it is strong and steady. ...

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• hard bargain

  A useless fellow; a skulker. ...

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• hard fish

  A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk, &c., salted and dried. ...

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• hard-head

  The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...

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• hard-horse

  A tyrannical officer. ...

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• hard up

  The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...

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• gale of wind

  Implies what on shore is called a storm, more particularly termed a hard gale or strong gale; number...

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• hard-a-lee

  The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...

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• hard and fast

  Said of a ship on shore. ...

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• hard-a-port!

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...

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• hard-a-starboard

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whi...

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• hard-a-weather!

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...

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• king's hard bargain

  A useless fellow, who is not worth his hire. ...

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• breaking of a gale

  Indications of a return of fine weather; short gusts at intervals; moaning or whistling of the wind ...

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• tail of a gale

  The latter part of a gale, when its violence is dying out. ...

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• a hard row to hoe

  A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish. Gentlemen, I ...

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• lie-to, in a gale

  , is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...

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• try, to, or lie-to, in a gale

  , is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...

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• Three Hard Court, Creechurch Lane

  See Three Herring Court. ...

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• hard at his a-se

  Close after him. ...

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• busy as the devil in a gale of wind

  Fidgety restlessness, or double diligence in a bad cause; the imp being supposed to be mischievous i...

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• hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

  Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

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