lashing-eyes

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• Lashing

  ·noun ·see 2d Lasher. II. Lashing ·noun The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; cha...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lashing

  A rope used to fasten any movable body in a ship, or about her masts, sails, and rigging. ...

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• heel-lashing

  The rope which secures the inner part of a studding-sail boom to the yard; also, that which secures ...

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• rose-lashing

  This lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round...

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• sheer-lashing

  Middle the rope, and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the oth...

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• Nine-eyes

  ·noun The <<Lamprey>>. ...

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• eight eyes

  I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• glass eyes

  A nick name for one wearing spectacles. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

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

• bull's eyes

  n. A coarse sweetmeat mixed with flour, and streaked various colors, greedily devoured by children.-...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• thimble-eyes

  Are thimble-shaped apertures in iron-plates where sheaves are not required; frequently used instead ...

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• blind-your-eyes

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

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

• 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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• Covering of the eyes

  Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is "it (i.e., Abimelech's present of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• eyes of a messenger

  Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together. ...

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• eyes of a ship

  (See eyes of her.) ...

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• squaring the dead-eyes

  Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship. ...

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