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iron-bound
A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...
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Bound
·- imp. & ·p.p. of Bind.
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bound
Destined for a particular service. Intended voyage to a place.
♦ Ice-bound. Totally surrounded wit...
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blocks
The several transverse pieces or logs of timber, piled in plane, on which a ship is built, or to pla...
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Iron
·noun Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
II. Iron ·noun Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.
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Iron
Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai befo...
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iron
Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison win...
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Iron
is mentioned with brass as the earliest of known metals. (Genesis 4:22) The natural wealth in iron o...
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Gold-bound
·adj Encompassed with gold.
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Half-bound
·noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
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Home-bound
·adj Kept at home.
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Snow-bound
·adj Enveloped in, or confined by, snow.
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Water-bound
·adj Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
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Weather-bound
·adj Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
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Wood-bound
·adj Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
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degg-bound
much swelled in the belly. N.
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homeward-bound
Said of a ship when returning from a voyage to the place whence she was fitted out; or the country t...
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ice-bound
A vessel so surrounded by ice as to be prevented from proceeding on her voyage.
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man-bound
Detained in port in consequence of being short of complement.
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money-bound
A phrase expressive of such passengers as are detained on board till a remittance arrives for paying...
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weather-bound
Detained by foul winds; our forefathers used the term wæder fæst.
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wind-bound
Detained at an anchorage by contrary winds.
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back-blocks
n.
1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...
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bee-blocks
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through...
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bilge-blocks
See sliding bilge-blocks.
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blocks, fixed
See fixed blocks.
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bullock-blocks
Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in or...
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cant-blocks
The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing.
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cheek-blocks
Usually fitted to the fore-topmast head, for the purpose of leading the jib-stay, halliards, &c.
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clump-blocks
Those that are made thicker or stronger than ordinary blocks. (See block, tack-and-sheet.)
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fixed blocks
Solid pieces of oak let through the sides of the ship, and fitted with sheaves, to lead the tacks, s...
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hanging-blocks
These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...
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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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jeer-blocks
Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...
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jewel-blocks
Are attached to eye-bolts on those yards where studding-sails are hoisted, and carry these sails to ...
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keel-blocks
Short log ends of timbers on which the keel of a vessel rests while building or repairing, affording...
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leading-blocks
The several blocks used for guiding the direction of any purchase, as hook, snatch, or tail blocks.
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pedestal-blocks
Synonymous with plumber-blocks (which see).
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plumber-blocks
These, in a marine steam-engine, are Y's, wherein are fixed the bushes, in which the shafts or pinio...
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purchase-blocks
All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...
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quarter-blocks
Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...
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running-blocks
Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles.
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span-blocks
Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to ha...
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speck-blocks
See flense, to.
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transporting-blocks
Two snatch-blocks, fitted one on each side above the taffrail, to admit a hawser, when transporting ...
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two-blocks
The same as chock-a-block (which see).
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Bar iron
·- ·see under <<Iron>>.
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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Brand iron
·- A branding iron.
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Branding iron
·- An iron to brand with.
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Bridle iron
·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...
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Cast iron
·- Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace;
— used for making castings, and...
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Cast-iron
·adj Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
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Cramp iron
·- ·see <<Cramp>>, ·noun, 2.
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Grozing iron
·- A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.
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Harping iron
·- A <<Harpoon>>.
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Iron works
·- ·see under Iron, ·adj.
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Iron-cased
·adj Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
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Iron-fisted
·adj Closefisted; stingy; mean.
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Iron-gray
·noun An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color.
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Iron-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master.
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Iron-sick
·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded;
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Iron-sided
·adj Having iron sides, or very firm sides.
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Lofting iron
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Lofter>>.
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Making-iron
·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...
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Spiegel iron
·- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per c...
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T iron
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Tee iron
·- ·see T iron, under <<T>>.
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Tue-iron
·noun ·see <<Tuyere>>.
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Iron Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Within and Castle ...
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cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
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split iron
The nick-name for a smith.
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toasting iron
A sword.
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iron hand
a term of Victorian politics. It was a new Standing Order introducing what has since been called the...
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shooting iron
A common Western term for a rifle, or fowling piece.
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talking-iron
A comical name for a gun or rifle; called also a shooting-iron.
I hops out of bed, feels for my tru...
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waffle-iron
(Dutch wafelyzen.) A wafer-iron; a utensil for baking waffles.
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chinsing-iron
A caulker's tool for chinsing seams with.
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horsing-iron
An iron fixed in a withy handle, sometimes only lashed to a stick or tree-nail, and used with a beet...
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iron-clad, cased, coated
, or plated vessel.
One covered entirely, or in special parts, with iron plates intended to resist...
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iron garters
A cant word for bilboes, or fetters.
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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iron-sick
The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...
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iron-sides
Formerly a sobriquet for favourite veteran men-of-war, but latterly applied to iron and iron-clad sh...
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iron wedges
Tapered iron wedges on the well-known mechanical principle, for splitting out blocks and for other s...
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iron-work
A general name for all pieces of iron, of whatever figure or size, which are used in the constructio...
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making iron
One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...
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meaking iron
The tool used by caulkers to run old oakum out of the seams before inserting new.
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pig-iron
(See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead.
"A nodding b...
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point iron
A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line.
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rasing-iron
A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh.
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reeming-iron
The larger iron used by caulkers in opening the seams.
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ripping-iron
A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bot...
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tee-iron
An instrument for drawing the lower box in the barrel of a pump. T-shaped clamp, knee, or other piec...
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traveller-iron
To a cutter's fore-sail, boom-mainsail, or spanker-boom; generally termed traveller horse. (See hors...
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strop-bound block
A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulde...
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sliding bilge-blocks
Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her.
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Falkirk Iron Warehouse
On the south side of Thames Street in O.S. 1880. In Vintry Ward.
It occupied part of the site of Sh...
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iron-plated ships
See armour-clad.
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Mr. Hood's Iron Wharf
See Iron Wharf.
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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose