lead

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• Lead

  ·noun An open way in an ice field. II. Lead ·noun A <<Lode>>. III. Lead ·noun The course of a rope...

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• lead

  n. (pronounced leed), a miningterm. In the Western United States and elsewhere, the termlead in min...

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

• Lead

  This is one of the most common of metals, found generally in veins of rocks, though seldom in a meta...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Black lead

  ·- Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. ·see <<Graphite>>. ...

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• Pot lead

  ·add. ·- Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction. ...

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• fair-lead

  Is applied to ropes as suffering the least friction in a block, when they are said to lead fair. ...

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• hand-lead

  A small lead used in the channels, or chains, when approaching land, and for sounding in rivers or h...

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• lead, sounding

  An instrument for discovering the depth of water; it is a tapered cylinder of lead, of 7, 14, or 28 ...

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• lead-line

  A line attached to the upper end of the sounding-lead. (See hand-line and deep-sea line.) ...

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• lead-nails

  Small round-headed composition nails for nailing lead. ...

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• milled lead

  Sheet lead. ...

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• sounding-lead

  See lead. ...

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• heave the lead

  To take soundings with the hand lead-line. "Get a cast of the lead," with the deep-sea lead and line...

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• lead, to strike the

  See above. Used figurativelyfor to succeed. 1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 74: «We coul...

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

• cast of the lead

  The act of heaving the lead into the sea to ascertain what depth of water there is. (See also heave ...

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• ready with the lead!

  A caution when the vessel is luffed up to deaden her way, followed by "heave." ...

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