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Limber
·adj Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
II. Limber ·noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or c...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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limber
In artillery, the two-wheeled carriage to which the trail of a field gun-carriage is attached for tr...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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box
bōx, bōcis, m., = βώξ, βόαξ, a sea-fish , otherwise unknown, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145. In Paul. ex ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Box
·noun A small country house.
II. Box ·vt To inclose in a box.
III. Box ·noun The quantity that a b...
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Box
For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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box
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Box-tree
Box-gum
,n.
The name is applied to many Eucalypts, and toa few trees of the genus Tr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box
The space between the back-board and the stern-post of a boat, where the coxswain sits.
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limber plates
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
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limber boards or plates
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
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limber-clearer
A small chain rove fore-and-aft through the limber-passage to clear it when necessary, by hauling ba...
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limber-passage
The line of limber-holes throughout the whole length of the floor, on each side of the keelson, for ...
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limber-plates
See limber boards.
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limber-streak
The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson, wrought over the lower ends of the first futtocks.
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Axle box
·- The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
II. Axle box ·- A bushing in the ...
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Box kite
·add. ·- A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rec...
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Box tail
·add. ·- In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Ditty-box
·noun A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, ·etc.
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Drudging box
·- ·see Dredging box.
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Junction box
·add. ·- A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and wher...
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Pepper box
·add. ·noun A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College,...
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Pouchet box
·- ·see Pouncet box.
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Pouncet box
·- A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
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Touch-box
·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...
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Vanity box
·add. ·- A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror,...
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Box-tree
(Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according to some, a species of cedar growing...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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black box
A lawyer. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bone box
The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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butter box
A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chatter box
One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eternity box
A coffin.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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juggler's box
The engine for burning culprits in the hand. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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knowledge box
The head.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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prattling box
The pulpit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sauce box
A term of familiar raillery, signifying a bold or forward person.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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badger-box
n.
slang name for a roughly-constructed dwelling.
1875. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasma...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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match-box
See bean, Queensland
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box-wood
n.
a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dwarf-box
n.
Eucalyptus microtheca,F. v. M. See Box. This tree has also many other names.See Maiden's `Useful...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native box
n.
See box.
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poplar-box
n.
See box.
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bad box
To be in a bad box, is to be in a bad predicament.
I began to be afraid now I'd got into rather a b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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chatter-box
One whose tongue runs incessantly.--Todd.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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butter-box
A name given to the brig-traders of lumpy form, from London, Bristol, and other English ports. A can...
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cartouch-box
The accoutrement which contains the musket-cartridges: now generally called a pouch.
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cartridge-box
A cylindrical wooden box with a lid sliding upon a handle of small rope, just containing one cartrid...
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ditty-box
A small caddy for holding a seaman's stock of valuables.
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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hawse-box
, or naval hood.
Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...
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paddle-box
The frame of wood which encircles the upper part of the paddle-wheel.
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salt-box
A case for keeping a temporary supply of cartridges for the immediate use of the great guns; it is u...
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smoke-box
A part which crosses the whole front of a marine boiler, over the furnace doors; or that part betwee...
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stuffing-box
A contrivance on the top of a steam cylinder-cover, packed with hemp, and kept well soaked with tall...
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touch-box
The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used.
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to box the compass
To say or repeat the mariner's compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to be able to answe...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to box the jesuit, and get cock roaches
A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that soc...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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match-box bean
n.
another name for the ripehard seed of the Queensland Bean, Entadascandens, Benth., N.O. Legumino...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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paddle-box boats
Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box.
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Jack in a Box
i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.).
1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554:
«When previously mentioning the eleg...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box the compass, to
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
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