knee-timber

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• Knee

  ·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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• knee

  Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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• Timber

  ·vi To make a nest. II. Timber ·vi To light on a tree. III. Timber ·noun The crest on a coat of ar...

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• timber

  [Anglo-Saxon]. All large pieces of wood used in ship-building, as floor-timbers, cross-pieces, futto...

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• Knee jerk

  ·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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• Knee-crooking

  ·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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• Knee-deep

  ·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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• Knee-high

  ·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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• Knock-knee

  ·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• red-knee

  n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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• dagger-knee

  A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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• gammon-knee

  A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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• heel-knee

  The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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• stem-knee

  In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• Timber Wharf

  1) See Dorset Wharf. 2) South out of Thames Street to the Thames, west of Timber Yard (Rocque, 1746...

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• Timber Yard

  1) See Little Somerset Street. 2) At the south end of William Street, between Wood and Co.'s Wharf ...

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• belly timber

  Food of all sorts. ...

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• timber toe

  A man with a wooden leg. ...

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• timber-tug

  Kent. The carriage of a waggon for conveying timber, with a long perch, which may be adapted to any ...

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• middle-timber

  That timber in the stern which is placed amidships. ...

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• proof timber

  In naval architecture, an imaginary timber, expressed by vertical lines in the sheer-draught, to pro...

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• seasoned timber

  Such as has been cut down, squared, and stocked for one season at least. ...

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• ship-timber

  Contraband in time of war. ...

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• tasting timber

  Chipping it with an adze, and boring it with an augur, to ascertain its quality. ...

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• timber-converter

  A dockyard official who has the charge of converting timber for its different purposes in ship-build...

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• timber-heads

  The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, ...

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• timber-hitch

  , is made by taking the end of a rope round a spar, and after leading it under and over the standing...

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• timber-taster

  One appointed to examine and pronounce upon the fitness of timber. ...

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• hanging standard-knee

  A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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• High Timber Street

  South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 42, and extending east and west between Broken Wharf and Bro...

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• grain of timber

  In a transverse section of a tree, two different grains are seen: those running in a circular manner...

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• grain-cut timber

  That which is cut athwart the grain when the grain of the wood does not partake of the shape require...

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• rough-tree timber

  Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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• side counter-timber

  The stern timber which partakes of the shape of the top-side, and heels upon the end of the wing-tra...

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• timber and room

  , is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...

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• top-timber breadth

  The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line. ...

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• top-timber hollow

  A name sometimes given to the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top-timber. ...

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• knee of the head

  A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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• Timber Yard, Dorset Street

  See New River Office and Yard. ...

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• Dark Lane, High Timber Street

  See Dark House Lane. ...

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• Timber Yard, Upper Thames Street

  See George Yard. ...

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