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• Launch

  ·noun The act of <<Launching>>. II. Launch ·vi To strike with, or as with, a lance; to <<Pierce>>. ...

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• launch

  The delivery, or labour, of a pregnant woman; a crying out or groaning. ...

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• launch

  The largest or long boat of a ship of war. Others of greater size for gunboats are used by the Frenc...

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• ho

  ho! ! interj., an expression of astonishment, oh! ho! tune is eras? Ter. Phorm. 945 dub. (al. oh...

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• Ho

  ·pron <<Who>>. II. Ho ·interj ·Alt. of <<Hoa>>. III. Ho ·interj ·Alt. of <<Hoa>>. ...

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• ho

  A word used by teamsters to stop their teams. It has been used as a noun, for stop; moderation; boun...

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• ho!

  or hay! An exclamation derived from our Danish ancestors, and literally meaning stop! See o! ...

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• launch, to

  To send a ship, craft, or boat off the slip on shore into the water, "her native element," as newspa...

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• ship-launch

  See launch. ...

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• Heigh-ho

  ·interj An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, ·etc. ...

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• land ho!

  The cry when land is first seen. ...

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• sail ho!

  The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...

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• surge ho!

  The notice given when a rope or cable is to be surged. ...

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• what cheer, ho?

  Equivalent among seamen to, How fare ye? ...

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