kelson ride

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• Kelson

  ·noun ·see <<Keelson>>. ...

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• kelson

  See keelson ...

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• Ride

  ·noun A saddle horse. II. Ride ·vt To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. III. Ride ·vt T...

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• to ride

  1) The use of the word ride, both as a verb and a noun, in the sense of being conveyed in a carriage...

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• ride

  1) to hang oneself upon another. Lane. 2) a little stream. Hamps. ...

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• false kelson

  , or kelson rider. A piece of timber wrought longitudinally above the main kelson. ...

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• sleigh-ride

  Used both as a noun and as a verb. In winter we sleigh-ride, coast, skate, and snow-ball.--Margaret...

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• ride, to

  To ride at anchor. A vessel rides easily, apeak, athwart, head to wind, out a gale, open hawse, to t...

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