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Heel
·noun The after end of a ship's keel. II. Heel ·noun A cyma reversa; — so called by workmen. III....

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heel
The after end of a ship's keel, and the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected. Also, ...

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Knee
·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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knee
Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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Lark's-heel
·noun Indian cress. ...

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Wire-heel
·noun A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. ...

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heel tap
A peg in the heel of a shoe, taken out when it is finished. A person leaving any liquor in his glass...

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heel-tap
the heel-piece of a shoe. North. ...

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heel-brace
A piece of iron-work applicable to the lower part of a rudder, in case of casualty to the lower pint...

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heel-lashing
The rope which secures the inner part of a studding-sail boom to the yard; also, that which secures ...

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heel-rope
That which hauls out the bowsprit in cutters, and the jib and studding-sail booms, or anything else ...

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heel-tackles
The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them....

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parliament-heel
The situation of a ship when careened by shift of ballast, &c.; or the causing her to incline a litt...

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Knee jerk
·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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Knee-crooking
·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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Knee-deep
·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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Knee-high
·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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Knock-knee
·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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Thick-knee
·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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red-knee
n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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dagger-knee
A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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gammon-knee
A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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knee-timber
That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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stem-knee
In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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stern-knee
Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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hanging standard-knee
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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heel of a mast
The lower end, which either fits into the step attached to the keel, or in top-masts is sustained by...

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knee of the head
A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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