hold-beams

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• lower-hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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• beams

  Strong transverse pieces of timber stretching across the ship from one side to the other, to support...

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• Hold

  ·noun Binding power and influence. II. Hold ·noun The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. ...

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• Hold

  A fortress, the name given to David's lurking-places (1 Sam. 22:4, 5; 24:22). ...

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• hold

  a place where people stay to chat in when they are sent on an errand ; a loitering place. N. ...

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• hold

  The whole interior cavity of a ship, or all that part comprehended between the floor and the lower d...

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• break-beams

  Beams introduced at the break of a deck, or any sudden termination of planking. ...

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• breast-beams

  Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• fork-beams

  Short or half beams to support the deck where there is no framing, as in the intervention of hatchwa...

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• half-beams

  Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...

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• ice-beams

  Strengtheners for whalers. (See fortifying.) ...

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• bed-beams

  See bomb-beds, &c. ...

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• orlop-beams

  , or hold-beams. Those which support the orlop-deck, but are chiefly intended to fortify the hold....

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• paddle-beams

  Two large beams projecting over the sides of a steamer, between which the paddle-wheels revolve. (Se...

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• skid-beams

  Raised stanchions in men-of-war over the main-deck, parallel to the quarter-deck and forecastle beam...

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• Anchor-hold

  ·noun Hence: Firm hold: security. II. Anchor-hold ·noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to w...

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• Strangle hold

  ·add. ·- In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. ...

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• Toe hold

  ·add. ·- A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot. ...

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• petticoat hold

  One who has an estate during his wife's life, called the apron-string hold. ...

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• to hold forth

  To harangue; to speak in public.--Todd's Johnson. A petty corjuror telling fortunes, held forth in ...

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• to hold on

  To wait; stop. 'Hold on a minute;' originally a sea phrase. ...

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• to hold up

  In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining. Though nice and dark the p...

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• anchor-hold

  The fastness of the flukes on the ground; also the act of having cast anchor, and taken the ground. ...

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• fore-hold

  The part of the hold before the fore hatchway. ...

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• hold-all

  A portable case for holding small articles required by soldiers, marines, and small-arm men on servi...

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• hold-fast

  A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...

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• hold off

  The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan. ...

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• hold on

  keep all you have got in pulling a rope. ♦ Hold on a minute. Wait or stop. ♦ Hold on with your n...

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• hold-stanchions

  Those which support the hold-beams amidships, and rest on the kelson. ...

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• lower-hold

  The space for cargo in a merchant-vessel, fitted with 'tween-decks. ...

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• main-hold

  That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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• bomb-bed beams

  The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels. ...

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• apron string hold

  An estate held by a man during his wife's life. ...

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• depth of hold

  The height between the floor and the lower-deck; it is therefore one of the principal dimensions giv...

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• hold up, to

  In meteorological parlance, for the weather to clear up after a gale; to stop raining. ...

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• spurs of the beams

  Curved pieces of timber, serving as half-beams, to support the decks, where a whole one cannot be pl...

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• captain of the hold

  The last of the captains in rank, as a first-class petty officer. ...

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• height of the hold

  Used for the depth of the hold. ...

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• hold on, good sticks!

  An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...

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• pillar of the hold

  A main stanchion with notches for descent. ...

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• trim of the hold

  The arrangement of the cargo, &c., by which a vessel carries sail well, and becomes under control as...

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• hold a good wind, to

  To have weatherly qualities. ...

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• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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