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• Hitch

  ·noun A small dislocation of a bed or vein. II. Hitch ·noun The act of catching, as on a hook, ·etc...

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• hitch

  A difficulty; an impediment. All the hitches in the case of McNulty being got over, the gentlemen o...

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• hitch

  to move, or walk. Norf. ...

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• hitch

  A species of knot by which one rope is connected with another, or to some object. They are various; ...

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• Lee

  ·vi To <<Lie>>; to speak falsely. II. Lee ·noun That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipb...

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• lee

  calm, under the wind, shelter. S. ...

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• lee

  From the Scandinavian word lœ or laa, the sea; it is the side opposite to that from which the wind i...

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• blackwall-hitch

  A sort of tackle-hook guy, made by putting the bight of a rope over the back of the hook, and there ...

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• clove-hitch

  A knot or noose by which one rope is fastened to another. (See hitch.) Two half hitches round a spar...

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• cow-hitch

  A slippery or lubberly hitch. ...

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• half-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...

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• rolling-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; ...

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• slippery-hitch

  See slip-knot ...

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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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• Lee, Nathaniel

  (1653?-1692) Dramatist, s. of a clergyman at Hatfield, was ed. at Westminster School and Camb. Afte...

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• Lee, Harriet

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• Lee, Sophia

  (1750-1824), Lee, Harriet (1757-1851) Novelists and dramatists, dau. of John L., an actor, were the...

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• Lee, Sidney

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• a-lee

  The contrary of a-weather: the position of the helm when its tiller is borne over to the lee-side of...

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• lee-anchor

  The leeward one, if under weigh; or that to leeward to which a ship, when moored, is riding. ...

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• lee-beam

  On the lee-side of the ship, at right angles with the keel. ...

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• lee-boards

  Wooden wings or strong frames of plank affixed to the sides of flat-bottomed vessels, such as Dutch ...

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• lee-fang

  A rope rove through the cringle of a sail, for hauling in, so as to lace on a bonnet. ...

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• lee-fange

  The iron bar upon which the sheets of fore-and-aft sails traverse, in small vessels. (See horse.) ...

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• lee-gauge

  Implies being farther from the point whence the wind blows, than another vessel in company. ...

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• lee-lurches

  The sudden and violent rolls which a ship often takes to leeward when a large wave strikes her on th...

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• lee-shore

  A ship is said to be on a lee-shore, when she is near it, with the wind blowing right on to it. ...

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• lee-side

  All that part of a ship or boat which lies between the mast and the side farthest from the wind, the...

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• lee-tide

  A tide running in the same direction as the wind, and forcing a ship to leeward of the line upon whi...

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• lee-way

  What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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• lee-wheel

  The assistant to the helmsman. ...

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• marline-spike hitch

  A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

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• by the lee

  The situation of a vessel going free, when she has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her...

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• hard-a-lee

  The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...

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• lee-gunwale under

  A colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause. ...

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• luff a-lee

  See luff round ...

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• under the lee

  Sheltered from the wind by some intervening object, as a ship under the lee of the land. ...

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• angle of lee-way

  The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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• brought by the lee

  See bring by the lee, to. ...

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• make lee-way, to

  To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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• bring by the lee, to

  To incline so rapidly to leeward of the course when the ship sails large, or nearly before the wind,...

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• lee-hatch, take care of the!

  A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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