hatch-rings

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  The annual circular layers in timber. Also, grommets, or circles of metal for lifting things by hand...

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• Hatch

  ·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate. II. Hatch ·noun A <<Bedstead>>. III. Hatch ·noun Development;...

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• hatch

  A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See heck.) ...

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• Nobili's rings

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• cramp rings

  Bolts, shackles, or fetters. CANT. ...

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• housing-rings

  Ring-bolts over the lower deck-ports, through the beam-clamps, to which the muzzle-lashings of the g...

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• mooring-rings

  Iron swivel rings fixed on piers or buoys, &c., for securing vessels to. ...

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• Hatch-boat

  ·noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries...

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• pickt hatch

  To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in S...

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• booby-hatch

  A smaller kind of companion, but readily removable; it is in use for merchantmen's half decks, and l...

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• hatch-bars

  To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed. ...

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• hatch-boat

  A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches. ...

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• hatch-deck

  Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...

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• scuttle-hatch

  A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary. ...

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• rings, to run round

  : to beat out and out. Apicturesque bit of Australian slang. One runner runs straightto the goal, th...

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• lee-hatch, take care of the!

  A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...

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