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Staysail
·noun Any sail extended on a stay.
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staysail
A triangular sail hoisted upon a stay.
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Jib
·add. ·noun One that jibs, or balks; a jibber.
II. Jib ·add. ·noun A stationary condition; a stands...
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jib
A large triangular sail, set on a stay, forward. It extends from the outer end of the jib-boom towar...
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Jack
·noun The wall-eyed pike.
II. Jack ·noun A sawhorse or sawbuck.
III. Jack ·noun A young pike; a pi...
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jack
A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
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jack
1) Haifa pint. Yorks.
2) a quarter of a pint.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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jack
In the British navy the jack is a small union flag, formed by the intersection of St. George's and S...
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main-staysail
A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts.
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mizen staysail
A fore-and-aft sail of various shapes set on the mizen stay.
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staysail-netting
See bowsprit-netting.
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staysail-stay
The stay on which a staysail is set.
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flying jib
A light sail set before the jib, on the flying jib-boom. The third jib in large ships, as the inner ...
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jib-boom
A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...
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jib-foresail
In cutters, schooners, &c., it is the stay-foresail.
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jib-guys
Stout ropes which act as backstays do to a mast, by supporting the jib-boom against the pressure of ...
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jib-stay
The stay on which the jib is set.
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jib-topsail
A light sail set on the topmost stay of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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jib-traveller
An iron ring fitted to run out and in on the jib-boom, for the purpose of bringing outwards or inwar...
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jib-tye
A rope rove through a sheave or block on the fore-topmast head, for hoisting the jib.
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outer-jib
In sloops, where the head-sails are termed foresail-jib and outer-jib, if set from the foremast-head...
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spitfire-jib
In cutters, a small storm-jib of very heavy canvas.
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standing-jib
The jib, as distinguished from the other jibs.
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storm-jib
In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships.
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Apple-jack
·noun Apple brandy.
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Black-jack
·noun The ensign of a pirate.
II. Black-jack ·noun The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
III. Black-ja...
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California jack
·add. ·- A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.
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Cheap-jack
·noun ·Alt. of Cheap-john.
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Jack Ketch
·- A public executioner, or hangman.
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Minute-jack
·noun A timeserver; an inconstant person.
II. Minute-jack ·noun A figure which strikes the hour on ...
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Supple-jack
·noun A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliab...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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London, Jack
(b. 1876)
American novelist. The Son of the Wolf (1900), The God of his Fathers, Children of the Fr...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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black jack
1) A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves.
2) A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leath...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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glim jack
A link-boy. CANT.
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jack adams
A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
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jack ketch
The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
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jack pudding
The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
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jack robinson
Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very v...
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jack sprat
A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
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jack weight
A fat man.
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jack whore
A large masculine overgrown wench.
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jack-bird
n.
a bird of the South Island of NewZealand, Creadion cinereus, Buller. See also Saddle-back and Cr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jack shay
or Jackshea, n.
a tin quart-pot.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 209:
«H...
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long-jack
name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood.
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station-jack
n.
a form of bush cookery.
1853. `The Emigrant's Guide to Australia.' (Article onBush-Cookery, fro...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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supple-jack
n.
The word is English in thesense of a strong cane, and is the name of various climbingshrubs from...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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apple jack
A liquor distilled from cider; also called cider brandy.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flap-jack
A fried cake; a pan-cake; a fritter. A word used alike in England and the United States, where it is...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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supple jack
(Lat. rhamnus volubilis.) The popular name of a vine common to some of the Southern States. Twisted ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flop-jack
a small pasty, or turn-over. Glouc.
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black-jack
The ensign of a pirate. Also, a capacious tin can for beer, which was formerly made of waxed leather...
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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jack adams
A stubborn fool.
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jack afloat
A sailor. Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman.
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jack-barrel
A minnow.
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jack-block
A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...
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jack-boots
Large coverings for the feet and legs, outside all, worn by fishermen.
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jack-hern
A name on our southern coasts for the heron.
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jack-knife
A horn-handled clasp-knife with a laniard, worn by seamen.
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jack-pins
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins.
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jack robinson
♦ Before you could say Jack Robinson, is a very old expression for a short time,
"A warke it ys as...
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jack-screw
A small machine used to cant or lift weighty substances, and in stowing cotton or other elastic good...
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jack-shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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jack-sharp
A small fresh-water fish, otherwise known as prickly-back.
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jack-staff
A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted.
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jack-stays
Ropes, battens, or iron bars placed on a yard or spar and set taut, either for bending the head of a...
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lifting-jack
A portable machine for lifting heavy objects, acting by the power either of the lever, the tooth and...
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skip-jack
A dandified trifling officer; an upstart. Also, the merry-thought of a fowl. Also, a small fish of t...
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union-jack
The union flag used separately; in the merchant service it must have a broad white border.
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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flying jib-boom
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...
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inner jib-stay
A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...
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jib of jibs
A sixth jib on the bowsprit, only known to flying-kite-men: the sequence being storm, inner, outer, ...
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Jack-a-dandy
·noun A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
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Jack-a-lent
·noun A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.
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Jack-o'-lantern
·noun ·see Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.
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jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
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jack of legs
A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...
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Jack the Painter
n.
very strong bush-tea, socalled from the mark it leaves round the drinker's mouth.
1855. G. C. M...
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jack-sharp-nails
a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb.
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jack-o-legs
a clasp knife. N.
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bread-room jack
The purser's steward's help.
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fresh-water jack
The same as fresh-water sailor.
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jack cross-trees
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts.
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jack in office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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jack nasty-face
A cook's assistant.
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jack of dover
An old sea-dish, the composition of which is now lost. Chaucer's host in rallying the cook exclaims,...
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jack o' lantern
The corpo santo, or St. Elmo's light, is sometimes so called.
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the cut of his jib
The form of his profile, the cast of his countenance; as, "I knew him by the cut of his jib." A naut...
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cut of the jib
A phrase for the aspect of a vessel, or person.
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Jack Alley, Bow Lane
See Crown Court16, Trinity Lane.
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jack at a pinch
A poor hackney parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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jack in an office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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Jack in a Box
i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.).
1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554:
«When previously mentioning the eleg...
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jack in the basket
A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger.
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
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jack in the dust
See jack in the bread-room
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
As prayer is a duty of daily occurrence, the injunctio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
I ...
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hither and yon
This expression is often used in the country towns of New England for here and there. It is never he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hums and hahs
A familiar expression applied to one who hesitates in speaking. 'None of your hums and hahs!' that i...
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
You see I should have bore down on Sol Gills yesterday, but she to...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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sixes and sevens
'To be at sixes and sevens,' is to be in a state of disorder and confusion. A ludicrous expression t...
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spack and applejees
(Dutch.) Pork and apples, cooked together. An ancient Dutch dish made in New York.
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tarring and feathering
A punishment sometimes inflicted by indignantly virtuous mobs in Southern and Western States, on per...
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ways and means
The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...
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fending and proving
disputing, arguing pro and con. C.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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costs and damage
Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants p...
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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rank and file
This word includes corporals as well as privates, all below sergeants. (See file.)
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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