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• Luff

  ·noun The roundest part of a ship's bow. II. Luff ·noun The side of a ship toward the wind. III. L...

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• luff

  , or loofe. The order to the helmsman, so as to bring the ship's head up more to windward. Sometim...

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• Your

  ·pron & ·adj The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. ...

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• Keep

  ·vt To have habitually in stock for sale. II. Keep ·noun That which is kept in charge; a charge. I...

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• to keep

  To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• keep

  Food; subsistence; keeping. In a letter to his brother, Bishop Heber, speaking of Bishops' College c...

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• keep

  to catch. Lane. ...

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• keep

  A strong donjon or tower in the middle of a castle, usually the last resort of its garrison in a sie...

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• luff upon luff

  One luff-tackle applied to the fall of another, to afford an increase of purchase. ...

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• luff round

  , or luff a-lee. The extreme of the movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up ...

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• luff-tackle

  A purchase composed of a double and single block, the standing end of the rope being fast to the sin...

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• hut-keep

  v. to act as hut-keeper. 1865. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,' p. 380 «At this, as well...

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• stock-keep

  v. a quaint compound verb. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. x. p. 96(1890): «`What ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to keep company

  To court. A common term in the interior parts of New England, applied to a man whose visits to a lad...

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• keep off

  To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.) ...

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• choke the luff

  To place suddenly the fall of a tackle close to the block across the jaw of the next turn of the rop...

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• luff and lie

  A very old sea-term for hugging the wind closely. ...

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• luff a-lee

  See luff round ...

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• bung your eye

  Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cock your eye

  Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego. ...

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• crook your elbow

  To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

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• sluice your gob

  Take a hearty drink. ...

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• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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• top your boom

  See boom. ...

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• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep her own

  Not to fall off; not driven back by tide. ...

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• luff and touch her!

  Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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• lie on your oars!

  The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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• lay or lie on your oars!

  The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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• toss in your oars!

  The order to desist rowing, and throw the oars in out of the rowlocks. ...

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• keep the land aboard

  Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit. ...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• lend us your pound here!

  A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...

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• to keep a stiff upper lip

  is to continue firm, unmoved. My friend, said he, don't cry for spilt milk; keep a stiff upper lip;...

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• keep the pot a boiling

  i. e. Don't let the game flag. A common expression among young people, when they are anxious to carr...

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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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