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Keeping
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Keep>>. II. Keeping ·noun A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; ...

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lost her way
When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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Her
(·pron ·pl) ·Alt. of <<Here>>. II. Her ·pron & ·adj The form of the objective and the possessive ca...

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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way. II. Way ·adv <<Away>>. III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...

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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...

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Home-keeping
·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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Safe-keeping
·noun The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody. ...

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keeping cully
One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public. ...

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keeping-room
A common sitting-room; the parlor in New England. The term is chiefly used in the interior, although...

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back-her
The order, in steam-navigation, directing the engineer to reverse the movement of the cranks and urg...

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ease her!
In a steamer, is the command to reduce the speed of the engine, preparatory to "stop her," or before...

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meet her!
The order to adjust the helm, so as to check any further movement of the ship's head in a given dire...

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slow her!
In steam navigation, the same as "Ease her!" ...

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snubbing her
Bringing a ship up suddenly with an anchor, and short range of cable, yet without jerking. [Said to ...

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stop her!
An order to check the cable in being payed out. Also, a self-explanatory phrase to direct the engine...

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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. ...

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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. ...

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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...

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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course. ...

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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. ...

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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. ...

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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S. ...

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gainest-way
the nearest way. N. ...

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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...

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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S. ...

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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...

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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S. ...

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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin. ...

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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...

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covert-way
See covered way. ...

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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...

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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace. ...

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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...

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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...

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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...

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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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milky way
See via lactea. ...

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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor. ...

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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...

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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective. ...

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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...

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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...

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'way up!
See way aloft! ...

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'way aloft!
or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill. ...

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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...

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keeping a watch
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...

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keeping the sea
The term formerly used when orders were issued for the array of the inhabitants of the sea-coasts. ...

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answers her helm
When a ship obeys the rudder or steers. ...

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dragging on her
Said of a vessel in chase, or rounding a point, when she is obliged to carry more canvas to a fresh ...

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eyes of her
The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In olden times, and now in Spanish and Itali...

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give her sheet
The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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hang on her!
In rowing, is the order to stretch out to the utmost to preserve or increase head-way on the boat. ...

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haul her wind
Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind. ♦ Haul your wind, or haul to the wind, signif...

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keep her own
Not to fall off; not driven back by tide. ...

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pricking her off
Marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to show her situa...

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keeping a good offing
To keep well off shore while under sail, so as to be clear of danger should the wind suddenly shift ...

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keeping full for stays
A necessary precaution to give the sails full force, in aid of the rudder when going about. ...

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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...

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right-of-way
n. a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...

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caper corner-way
Diagonally. ...

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fetch head-way
or stern-way. Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern. ...

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fetch way, to
Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea. ...

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gather way, to
To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm. ...

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give way together
So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated. ...

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lose way, to
When a ship slackens her progress in the water. ...

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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water. ...

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pilot's fair-way
, or pilot's water. A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed. ...

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sea-way measurer
A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse. ...

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woman and her husband
A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband. ...

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lay her course, to
To be able to sail in the direction wished for, however barely the wind permits it. ...

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luff and touch her!
Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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steer her course, to
Going with the wind fair enough to lay her course. ...

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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv ...

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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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cast the wrong way
See wrong way. ...

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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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odds plut and her nails
A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

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to set her cap for him
To direct her attentions to him; to endeavor to win his affections. Dr. Johnson notices the phrase, ...

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give her so and so
The direction of the officer of the watch to the midshipman, reporting the rate of sailing by the lo...

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run away with her anchor
Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...

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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...

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give way with a will
Pull heartily together. ...

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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street. ...

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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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which way does the wind lie?
What is the matter? ...

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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry. ...

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