hawse-pipe

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• Hawse

  ·noun A hawse hole. II. Hawse ·noun That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for th...

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• hawse

  This is a term of great meaning. Strictly, it is that part of a vessel's bow where holes are cut for...

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• Pipe

  ·noun The key or sound of the voice. II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore. III. Pipe ·n...

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• Pipe

  (1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• pipe

  n. an obsolete word, explained inquotations. 1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105: «These w...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pipe

  A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...

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• Pipe

  (Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...

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• foul hawse

  When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...

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• hawse-bags

  Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...

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• hawse-blocks

  Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...

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• hawse-bolsters

  Planks above and below the hawse-holes. Also, pieces of canvas stuffed with oakum and roped round, f...

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• hawse-box

  , or naval hood. Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...

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• hawse-bucklers

  Plugs of wood to fit the hawse-holes, and hatches to bolt over, to keep the sea from spurting in. ...

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• hawse-fallen

  To ride hawse-fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea, driving all before it....

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• hawse-full

  Riding hawse-full; pitching bows under. ...

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• hawse-holes

  Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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• hawse-hook

  A compass breast timber which crosses the hawse-timber above the ends of the upper-deck planking, an...

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• hawse-pieces

  The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...

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• hawse-plugs

  Blocks of wood made to fit into the hawse-pipes, and put in from the outside to stop the hawses, and...

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• hawse-timbers

  The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...

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• hawse-wood

  A general name for the hawse-timbers. ...

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• open hawse

  When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables. ...

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• Air pipe

  ·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe. ...

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• Blast pipe

  ·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...

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• Flue pipe

  ·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...

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• Pipe clay

  ·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...

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• Pipe layer

  ·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...

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• Pipe laying

  ·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe laying ·- The act ...

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• Pipe line

  ·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...

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• Pipe-line

  ·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines. ...

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• Soil pipe

  ·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. ...

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• Twire-pipe

  ·noun A vagabond musician. ...

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• Water pipe

  ·- A pipe for conveying water. ...

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• The Pipe Yard

  1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• clyster pipe

  A nick name for an apothecary. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• quail-pipe

  A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...

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• whore pipe

  The penis. ...

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• pipe-fish

  n. common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pipe-laying

  This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...

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• swine-pipe

  i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...

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• blow-pipe

  An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...

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• chain-pipe

  An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above. ...

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• deck-pipe

  An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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• eduction pipe

  A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...

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• gas-pipe

  A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...

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• injection-pipe

  This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...

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• pipe-clay

  Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...

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• pipe down!

  The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. ...

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• pipe-fish

  A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth. ...

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• steam-pipe

  See waste steam-pipe. ...

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• freshen hawse, to

  To relieve that part of the cable which has for some time been exposed to friction in one of the haw...

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• Old Pipe Yard

  South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). "The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...

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• blow-off-pipe

  , in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

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• cross in the hawse

  Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...

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• elbow in the hawse

  Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...

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• turn in the hawse

  Two crosses in a cable. ...

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• round-turn in the hawse

  A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...

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