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• Hurricane

  ·noun A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally a...

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• hurricane

  (W. Ind. urican.) This word does not appear in any English dictionary before 1720, when Phillips no...

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• hurricane

  See typhoon. ...

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• Deck

  ·v A heap or store. II. Deck ·v The roof of a passenger car. III. Deck ·v A pack or set of playing...

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• hurricane-house

  Any building run up for temporary purposes; the name is occasionally given to the round-house on a v...

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• paddy's hurricane

  Not wind enough to float the pennant. ...

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• Half-deck

  ·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>. II. Half-deck ·noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat sh...

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• Quarter-deck

  ·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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• Turret deck

  ·add. ·- A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vesse...

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• Water deck

  ·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. ...

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• berth-deck

  The 'tween decks. ...

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• deck, to

  A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails." ...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• deck-cargo

  , otherwise deck-load (which see). ...

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• deck-cleats

  Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, ...

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• deck-hook

  The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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• deck-house

  An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...

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• deck-load

  Timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels....

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• deck-pipe

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

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• deck-pumps

  In a steamer, are at the side of the vessel, worked with a lever by manual power, to supply addition...

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• deck-seam

  The interstices between the planks. ...

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• deck-sheet

  That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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• deck-stopper

  (See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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• deck-tackle

  A purchase led along the decks. ...

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• flush-deck

  A continued floor laid from the stem to the stern, upon one range, without any break. ...

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• forecastle-deck

  The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...

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• fore-deck

  That part from the fore-mast to the bows. ...

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• grating-deck

  A light movable deck, similar to the hatch-deck, but with open gratings. ...

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• gun-deck

  See decks. ...

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• half-deck

  A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...

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• hatch-deck

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

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• mess-deck

  The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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• quarter-deck

  That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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• spar-deck

  This term is loosely applied, though properly it signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a ve...

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• under deck

  The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks. ...

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• upper deck

  The highest of those decks which are continued throughout the whole length of a ship without falls o...

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• deck-beam knees

  The same as lodging-knees. ...

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• deck standard-knees

  Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• jack's quarter-deck

  The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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• on deck there!

  The cry to call attention from aloft or below. ...

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• quarter-deck nettings

  See netting. ...

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• quarter-deck officers

  A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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• mate of the lower-deck

  An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• walk the quarter-deck, to

  A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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