limber-streak

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• Streak

  ·noun The rung or round of a ladder. II. Streak ·noun A <<Strake>>. III. Streak ·vt With it as an ...

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• to streak

  is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...

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• Limber

  ·adj Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. II. Limber ·noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or c...

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• limber

  In artillery, the two-wheeled carriage to which the trail of a field gun-carriage is attached for tr...

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• Pay streak

  ·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...

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• to streak it

  is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...

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• sand-streak

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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-box

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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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