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Stuff
·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion.
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stuff
A coat of stuff, a term used for any composition laid on to ships' spars, bottom, &c. Also, square t...
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Line
·noun Flax; linen.
II. Line ·noun A trench or rampart.
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line
To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug.
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to line
To fish with a line. So, to seine, i. e. to fish with a seine. I have never seen these words used ex...
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line
The general appellation of a number of small ropes in a ship, as buntlines, clue-lines, bowlines, &c...
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Out
·vt To come out with; to make known.
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Split stuff
·add. ·- Timber sawn into lengths and then split.
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burnt-stuff
n.
a geological term used by miners.See quotation.
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split-stuff
n.
timber sawn into lengths andthen split.
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bread-stuff
Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering.
This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...
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housen-stuff
Household furniture.
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diminishing stuff
In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...
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dungaree-stuff
A blue or striped cotton cloth much worn by the seafaring classes in India.
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small stuff
The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns.
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thick stuff
Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness.
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line of line
See gunter's line.
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out and out
1) Thorough.
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Air line
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds.
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Bee line
·- The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with hone...
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Date line
·add. ·- The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreeme...
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Drag line
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Drag rope.
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Gunter's line
·- A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numb...
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Line-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>.
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Pipe line
·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...
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Pipe-line
·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.
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Side line
·add. ·- A line pert. or attached to the side of a thing.
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Spurling-line
·noun The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.
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Stream line
·add. ·- The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
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Up-line
·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...
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Vortex line
·add. ·- A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of ...
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Water line
·- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at v...
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black-line
See Black-War.
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snow-line
n.
In pastoralists' language of NewZealand, «above the snow-line» is land covered by snow inwinter,...
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to line bees
is to track wild bees to their homes in the woods. One who follows this occupation is called a bee h...
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bee-line
To take a bee-line, is to take the most direct or straight way from one point to another. Bees in re...
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base-line
In strategy, the line joining the various points of a base of operations. In surveying, the base on ...
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beam-line
A line raised along the inside of the ship fore and aft, showing the upper sides of the beams at her...
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bearding-line
In ship-building, is a curved line made by bearding the dead-wood to the shape of the ship's body.
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breadth line
A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the mid...
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cant-line
Synonymous with girt-line, as to cant the top over the lowermast-head.
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cod-line
An eighteen-thread line.
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concluding-line
A small rope hitched to the middle of the steps of the stern-ladders. Also, a small line leading thr...
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cont-line
The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.
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counter-line
A word often used for contravallation.
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cut-line
The space between the bilges of two casks stowed end to end.
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fancy-line
A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a down-haul. Also, a line used for cross-...
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furling-line
Denotes a generally flat cord called a gasket. In bad weather, with a weak crew, the top-sail is bro...
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gant-line
Synonymous with girt-line (which see).
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gaub-line
A rope leading from the martingale in-board. The same as back-rope.
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girt-line
A whip purchase, consisting of a rope passing through a single block on the head of a lower mast to ...
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gob-line
See gaub-line.
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gunter's line
Called also the line of numbers, and the line of lines, is placed upon scales and sectors, and named...
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hambro'-line
See hamber
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hand-line
A line bent to the hand-lead, measured at certain intervals with what are called marks and deeps fro...
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hauling-line
A line made fast to any object, to be hauled nearer or on board, as a hawser, a spar, &c.
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house-line
See housing
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indented line
In fortification, a connected line of works composed of faces which offer a continued series of alte...
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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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line, to
To cover one piece with another. Also, to mark out the work on a floor for determining the shape of ...
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line-breadth
See breadth line.
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log-line and log-ship
A small line about 100 fathoms long, fastened to the log-ship by means of two legs, one of which pas...
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margin line
A line or edge parallel to the upper side of the wing transom, and just below it, where the butts of...
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measuring line
The old term for the first meridian reckoned off from a ship's longitude. Also, the five-fathom line...
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par-line
A term signifying the normal level of a barometer for a given station, or the mean pressure between ...
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reef-line
Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...
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smiting-line
A line by which a yarn-stoppered sail is loosed, without sending men aloft. If well executed, marks ...
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sounding-line
This line, with a plummet, is mentioned by Lucilius; and was the sund-gyrd of the Anglo-Saxons.
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spurling-line
The line which formed the communication between the wheel and the tell-tale: it went round a small b...
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tow-line
[Anglo-Saxon toh-line]. A small hawser or warp used to move a ship from one part of a harbour or roa...
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tricing-line
A small cord, generally passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist up any object to rende...
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trigger-line
A line by which the gun is fired.
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tripping-line
A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act ...
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twiddling-line
A piece of small rope ornamentally fitted and used for steadying the steering-wheel when required: n...
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water-line
In former ships of war, a fine white painted line or bend, representing the deep line of flotation, ...
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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Cut-out
·noun A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
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Diner-out
·noun One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
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Go-out
·noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out...
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Knock-out
·add. ·noun Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.
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Out-Herod
·vt To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
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Out-patient
·noun A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
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Printing out
·add. ·- A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action ...
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Punt-out
·add. ·noun A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one...
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Stopping-out
·noun A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently ...
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Straight-out
·adj Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
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Top out
·add. ·- To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top``ping-out...
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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded.
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Worn-out
·adj Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
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Wung-out
·adj Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
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hang out
The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live.
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cut out
v.
1) To separate cattle from therest of the herd in the open.
1873. Marcus Clarke, `Holiday Peak,...
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duffer out
v.
A mine is said to duffer out,when it has ceased to be productive.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advan...
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dug-out
n.
a name imported into New Zealandfrom America, but the common name for an ordinary Maori canoe.
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out-station
n. a sheep or cattle stationaway from the Head-station (q.v.).
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peg-out
v. tr.
to mark out a gold-claim underthe Mining Act, or a Free-Selection (q.v.) under theLand Act, ...
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pinch-out
v.
to thin out and disappear (ofgold-bearing). This use is given in the `Standard,' butwithout quot...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
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to blurt out
To speak inadvertently, and without reflection.
They blush if they blurt out, are well aware
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to chalk out
To mark or trace out as with chalk.--Johnson. To chalk out a plan or proceeding, is to devise or lay...
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to clear out
To take oneself off; to depart, decamp. A vulgar expression.
This thing of man-worship I am a stran...
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to cut out
To supersede one in the affections of another. A familiar expression in common use: "Miss A was enga...
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to fizzle out
To be quenched, extinguished; to prove a failure. A favorite expression in Ohio.
The factious and r...
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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...
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to flunk out
To retire through fear; to back out.
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to let out
To begin a story or narrative. A Western expression.
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to put out
To remove; to be off. A Western expression. To put is used in the same sense.
As my wife's father h...
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to shell out
means to hand over money.
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to snake out
To drag out; to haul out, as a snake from its hole. A farmer in clearing land, attaches a chain to a...
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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camp out
To encamp out of doors for the night.
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dragged out
Fatigued; exhausted; worn out with labor.
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dug-out
The name in the Western States for a canoe or boat, hewn or dug out of a large log. They are common ...
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fagged out
Fatigued; worn out.
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tuckered out
Tired out; fatigued. Used in New York and New England.
I guess the Queen don't do her eating very a...
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barring-out
The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the mas...
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dorz'd out
spoken of corn, beaten out by the agitation of the wind. N.
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out-catch
to overtake. North.
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out-cumbling
a stranger. Lane.
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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camp-out
See camp, to
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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry.
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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...
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falling out
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring.
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heaving out
The act of loosing or unfurling a sail; particularly applied to the staysails; or in the tops, footi...
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levelled out
Any line continued out from a given point, or intersection of an angle, in a horizontal direction.
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lie out!
The order to the men aloft to distribute themselves on the yards for loosing, reefing, or furling sa...
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look-out
Watchful attention; there is always a look-out kept from the forecastle, foretopsail-yard, or above,...
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out-board
The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board.
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out-boats
The order to hoist out the boats.
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out-haul
, or out-hauler
A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...
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out-holling
Clearing tide-ports, canals, and channels of mud.
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out-licker
A corruption of out-rigger (which see).
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out-lier
A word which has been often used for out-rigger, but applies to outlying rocks, visible above water....
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out-oars
The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat.
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out-pensioners
Those entitled to pensions from Greenwich Hospital, but not admitted to "the house."
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out-ports
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
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out-rigger
A strong beam, of which there are several, passed through the ports of a ship, and firmly lashed at ...
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paying out
The act of slackening a cable or rope, so as to let it run freely. When a man talks grandiloquently,...
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rigging out
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar.
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selling out
An officer in the army wishing to retire from the service, may do so by disposing of his commission....
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splitting out
To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...
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stretch out!
In rowing, is the order to pull strong; to bend forward to the utmost.
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Old Line State
·add. ·- Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's ...
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apsides, line of
The imaginary line joining the aphelion and perihelion points in the orbit of a planet.
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collimation, line of
The optical axis of a telescope, or an imaginary line passing through the centre of the tube.
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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...
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deep-sea line
Usually a strong and water-laid line. It is used with a lead of 28 lbs., and adapted to find bottom ...
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ebb, line of
The sea-line of beach left dry by the tide.
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forming the line
See line.
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great-line fishing
That carried on over the deeper banks of the ocean. (See line-fishing.) It is more applicable to han...
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light water-line
The line showing the depression of the ship's body in the water when just launched, or quite unladen...
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line of battle
A disposition of the fleet at the moment of engagement, by signal or previous order, on which occasi...
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line of bearing
A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...
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line of collimation
See collimation, line of.
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line of defence
In fortification, the face of a work receiving flank defence, together with its prolongation to the ...
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line of demarcation
A line which is drawn by consent, to ascertain the limits of territories belonging to different powe...
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line of nodes
The imaginary line joining the ascending and descending nodes of the orbit of a planet or comet.
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line of operations
In strategy, the line an army follows to attain its objective point.
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load water-line
The draught of water exhibited when the ship is properly loaded; in a word, her proper displacement,...
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toe a line!
The order to stand in a row.
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water-line model
The same as key-model (which see).
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Knock-out drops
·add. ·- Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, ·etc.
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Out-of-door
·adj Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. ·se...
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to cut out of
To cheat, deprive of.
Having been cut out of my speech in Congress, by the "previous question."--Cr...
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out of fix
Disarranged; in a state of disorder.
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out of sorts
Out of order; disordered. Dr. Millingen, in his remarks on persons of phlegmatic temperament, says:
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blown itself out
Said of a falling gale of wind.
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bright look-out
A vigilant one.
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cut out, to
To attack and carry a vessel by a boat force; one of the most dashing and desperate services practis...
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fag-out, to
to wear out the end of a rope or end of canvas.
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fall out, to
To increase in breadth. Among soldiers and small-arm men, to quit the ranks of a company.
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heave out there!
The order to hasten men from their hammocks.
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heaving keel out
The utmost effect to be produced by careening, viz. to raise the keel out of the water in order to r...
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hove keel out
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
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in and out
A term sometimes used for the scantling of timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bol...
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out-and-outer
An old phrase signifying thorough excellence; a man up to his duty, and able to perform it in style....
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out-earing cleat
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle.
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out-flank, to
By a longer front, to overlap the enemy's opposite line, and thus gain a chance to turn his flank.
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out of commission
A ship where officers and men are paid off, and pennant hauled down.
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out of trim
A ship not properly balanced for fast sailing, which may be by a defect in the rigging or in the sto...
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out of winding
Said of a plank or piece of timber which has a fair and even surface without any twists: the opposit...
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out or down
An exclamation of the boatswain, &c., in ordering men out of their hammocks, i.e. turn out, or your ...
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out-sail, to
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch.
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reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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ream or reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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serving out slops
Distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.
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step out, to
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c.
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out at heels, or out at elbows
In declining circumstances.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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line-of-battle ships
Formerly those of 74 guns and upwards; or in these iron days, any vessel capable of giving and takin...
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line-of-metal elevation
That which the axis of a gun has above the object when its line of metal is pointed on the latter; i...
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unrove his life-line
Departed this life.
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wind and water line
That part of a ship lying at the surface of the water which is alternately wet and dry by the motion...
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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fitting out a ship
The act of providing a ship with sufficient masts, sails, yards, ammunition, artillery, cordage, anc...
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