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Work
·noun To ferment, as a liquid.
II. Work ·noun Ore before it is dressed.
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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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Bantam work
·- Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
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Grotto-work
·noun Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto.
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Hand-work
·noun ·see <<Handiwork>>.
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Press work
·add. ·- The work of a press agent.
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Sabrina work
·- A variety of applique work for quilts, table covers, ·etc.
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Sorrento work
·- Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Ital...
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Table work
·add. ·- Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.
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Tut-work
·noun Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by ...
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church work
Said of any work that advances slowly.
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county work
Said of any work that advances slowly.
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gingerbread work
Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to ...
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horn work
Cuckold-making.
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outen-work
out-door work. North.
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pole-work
a long tedious business. North.
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breast-work
A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions, which terminates the quarter-deck and poop ...
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carved work
The ornaments of a ship which are wrought by the carver.
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clincher-work
The disposition of the planks in the side of any boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank ...
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crown-work
In fortification, the largest definite form of outwork, having for its head two contiguous bastioned...
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day's work
In navigation, the reckoning or reduction of the ship's courses and distances made good during twent...
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dicker-work
The timbering of tide-harbours in the Channel. Wattling between piles.
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gingerbread work
Profusely carved decorations of a ship.
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horn-work
In fortification, a form of outwork having for its head a bastioned front, and for its sides two lon...
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journey-work
Work performed by the day.
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paternoster-work
The framing of a chain-pump.
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quick-work
Generally signifies all that part of a ship which is under water when she is laden; it is also appli...
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rubble-work
A mass of masonry, formed of irregular stones and pebbles imbedded in mortar. It is used in the inte...
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tide's work
The amount of progress a ship has made during a favourable tide. Also, a period of necessary labour ...
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work, to
Said of a ship when she strains in a tempestuous sea, so as to loosen her joints.
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work aback
This is said of a steam-engine if reversed, to propel the vessel astern.
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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...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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-bound
A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...
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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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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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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-bound blocks
Those which are fitted with iron strops.
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iron-plated ships
See armour-clad.
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woman of all work
Sometimes applied to a female servant, who refuses none of her master's commands.
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capital of a work
In fortification, an imaginary line bisecting its most prominent salient angle.
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cooking a day's work
To save the officer in charge. Reckoning too is cooked, as in a certain Antarctic discovery of land,...
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faces of a work
In fortification, are the two lines forming its most prominent salient angle.
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head of a work
In fortification, the part most advanced towards the enemy. In progressive works, such as siege-appr...
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work a ship, to
To adapt the sails to the force and direction of the wind.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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working a day's work
Reducing the dead-reckoning and meridian altitudes to noon of each day.
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work up junk, to
To draw yarns from old cables, &c., and therewith to make foxes, points, gaskets, sinnet, or spun-ya...
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Mr. Hood's Iron Wharf
See Iron Wharf.
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knock off work and carry deals
A term used to deride the idea of any work, however light, being relaxation; just as giving up takin...
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