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long timbers
, or long top-timbers.
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Top-timbers
·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks.
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top-timbers
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long stern-timbers
See stern-timbers.
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timbers
The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to ...
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Long
·superl Far-reaching; extensive.
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long
Great. A long price; a great price.
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long
1) great; as a long price.
2) tough meat is said " to eat long in the mouth." North.
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Top
·noun Top-boots.
II. Top ·noun Eve; verge; point.
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top
A sort of platform placed over the head of the lower mast, from which it projects like a scaffold. T...
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after-timbers
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel.
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bollard-timbers
Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see).
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bolting timbers
Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.)
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bow-timbers
Those which form the bow of the ship.
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cant-timbers
They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...
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compass-timbers
Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building.
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counter-timbers
Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern.
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cross-timbers
See cross-piece.
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filling-timbers
Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...
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floor-timbers
See floors
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frame-timbers
These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...
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futtock-timbers
See futtocks.
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ground-timbers
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson.
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half-timbers
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
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hawse-timbers
The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut.
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knuckle-timbers
The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...
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quarter-timbers
The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter.
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square timbers
Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel.
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Long primer
·- A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
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Long-armed
·adj Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
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Long-breathed
·adj Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.
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Long-drawn
·adj Extended to a great length.
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Long-horned
·adj Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennae, as certain b...
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Long-lived
·adj Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting ...
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Long-sight
·noun Long-sightedness.
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Long-sighted
·adj Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.
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Long-sightedness
·noun ·see <<Hypermetropia>>.
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Long-stop
·noun One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
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Long-sufferance
·noun Forbearance to punish or resent.
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Long-suffering
·noun Long patience of offense.
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Long-tongue
·noun The <<Wryneck>>.
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Long-tongued
·adj Having a long tongue.
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Long-waisted
·adj Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist;
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Long-winded
·adj Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker...
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Long, George
(1800-1879)
Classical scholar, ed. at Camb. He was Prof. of Ancient Languages in the Univ. of Virgi...
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Long Alley
Near Fleet Ditch, at Blackfriars (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Long Entry
1) Out of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Long Lane
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Long Walk
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long one
A hare; a term used by poachers.
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long gallery
Throwing, or rather trundling, the dice the whole length of the board.
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long meg
A jeering name for a very tall woman: from one famous in story, called Long Meg of Westminster.
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long shanks
A long-legged person.
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long stomach
A voracious appetite.
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long tongued
Loquacious, not able to keep a secret. He is as long-tongued as Granny: Granny was an idiot who coul...
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long-winded
A long-winded parson; one who preached long, tedious sermons. A long-winded paymaster; one who takes...
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tom long
A tiresome story teller. It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long...
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long-fin
n.
name given to the fish Caprodonschlegelii, Gunth., and in New South Wales to Anthiaslongimanus, ...
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long-jack
name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood.
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long-sleever
n.
name for a big drink and alsofor the glass in which it is contained. Perhaps in allusion toits t...
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long-tom
n.
name given in Sydney to Beloneferox, Gunth., a species of Garfish which has bothjaws prolonged t...
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yam, long
n.
a tuber, Discoreatransversa, R. Br., N.O. Dioscorideae. «The smalltubers are eaten by the aborig...
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
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long knives
A term applied to Europeans and their descendants, by the North American Indians. It signifies weare...
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long dog
a greyhound. Derb.
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long-cripple
a viper. Exm.
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long balls
Engaging beyond the reach of carronades.
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long boat
Is carvel-built, full, flat, and high, and is usually the largest boat belonging to a ship, furnishe...
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long-bow
A noted weapon formerly supplied to our men-of-war.
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long chalks
Great strides. (See chalks.)
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long-gaskets
Those used for sea service; the opposite of harbour-gaskets (which see).
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long-jawed
The state of rope when its strands are straightened by being much strained and untwisted, and from i...
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long-leave
Permission to visit friends at a distance.
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long-legged
Said of a vessel drawing much water.
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long oyster
A name of the sea cray-fish.
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long-service
A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use.
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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long stroke
The order to a boat's crew to stretch out and hang on her.
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long-tackles
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
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long-tails
A sobriquet for the Chinese.
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long togs
Landsman's clothes.
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long tom
, or long tom turks.
Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c.
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long voyage
One in which the Atlantic Ocean is crossed.
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High-top
·noun A ship's masthead.
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Top fermentation
·add. ·- An alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermen...
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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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Top rake
·add. ·- The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the sur...
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Top-armor
·noun A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
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Top-block
·noun A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, —...
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Top-boots
·noun ·pl High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper...
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Top-chain
·noun A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the rope...
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Top-cloth
·noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect ...
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Top-drain
·vt To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
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Top-draining
·noun The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
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Top-dress
·vt To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.
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Top-dressed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Top-dress.
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Top-dressing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Top-dress.
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Top-hamper
·noun The upper rigging, spars, ·etc., of a ship.
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Top-heavy
·adj Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part.
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Top-light
·noun A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
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Top-proud
·adj Proud to the highest degree.
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Top-rope
·noun A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
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Top-shaped
·adj Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.
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Top-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochi...
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Top-tackle
·noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
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Top-tool
·noun A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on...
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Turban-top
·noun A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, / Gyromitra...
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tip-top
The best: perhaps from fruit, that growing at the top of the tree being generally the best, as parta...
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top ropes
To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly.
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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top diver
A lover of women. An old top diver; one who has loved old hat in his time.
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top lights
The eyes. Blast your top lights.
See *curse.
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top sail
He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...
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tyburn top
or FORETOP
A wig with the foretop combed over the eyes in a knowing style; such being much worn by ...
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white-top
n.
another name for Flintwood (q.v.).
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tip-top
An expression often used in common conversation, denoting the utmost degree, excellence or perfectio...
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tve-top
a garland. N.
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bell-top
A name applied to the top of a quarter-gallery, when the upper stool is hollowed away, or made like ...
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chain, top
A chain to sling the lower yards in time of battle, to prevent them from falling down when the ropes...
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half-top
The mode of making ships' tops in two pieces, which are afterwards secured as a whole by what are te...
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laying-top
A conical piece of wood, having three or four scores or notches on its surface, used in rope-making ...
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round-top
A name which has obtained for modern tops, from the shape of the ancient ones. (See top.)
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top-armings
Hammocks stowed inside the rigging for the protection of riflemen.
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top-block
A large single block with an iron strop and hook, by which it is hooked into an eye-bolt under the l...
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top-castles
Castellated ledgings surrounding the mast-heads of our early ships, in which the pages to the office...
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top-chain
A chain to sling the yards in time of battle, in case of the ropes by which they are hung being shot...
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top-gallant
In the Cotton MSS. this word appears as "top-garland."
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top-hamper
Any unnecessary weight either on a ship's decks or about her tops and rigging. Also, applied to flyi...
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top-light
See top-lantern
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top-lantern
, or top-light.
A large signal-lantern placed in the after-part of a top, in ships where an admira...
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top-lining
A lining on the after-part of sails, to prevent their chafing against the top-rim. Also, a platform ...
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top-mast
The second division of a mast above the deck. (See mast.)
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top-maul
A large hammer used to start the top-mast fid, and to beat down the top, when setting up topmast-rig...
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top-men
Selected smart seamen stationed in the several tops, to attend the taking in or setting of the upper...
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top-nettings
See top.
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top-rail
A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops.
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top-riders
See upper futtocks-riders.
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top brim
The circular sweep of the fore part of a vessel's top, and covering in the ends of the cross-trees a...
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top rim or brim
The circular sweep of the fore part of a vessel's top, and covering in the ends of the cross-trees a...
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top-rope
The mast-rope employed to sway up a top-mast or topgallant-mast, in order to fix it in its place, or...
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top-sails
The second sails above the decks, extending across the top-masts, by the topsail-yards above, and by...
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top-sawyer
The leading man in any undertaking. One who excels; inasmuch as the man of most intellect guides the...
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top-side
All that part of a ship's side which is above the main-wales: that is, those strakes between the she...
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top-swivel
Once a favourite arm for ships' tops, but from the confined space and elevation rather an encumbranc...
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top-tackle
A large tackle, or properly pendant, hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope, and to the de...
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troughton's top
See whirler
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angles of timbers
See bevelling.
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bow-log timbers
A provincial name for hawse-wood.
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
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long-winded whistlers
Chase-guns.
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top-knot pigeon
n.
an Australian bird, Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw.
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lop and top
The top and branches of a felled tree.
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main-top bowline
The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...
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reefed top-mast
When a top-mast is sprung in or near the cap, the lower piece is cut off, and a new fid-hole cut, by...
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top burton-tackle
See burton.
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top-sail haul!
or main-topsail haul!
When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...
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top-tackle pendant
The pendant used with the above. The top-mast is swayed up by a top-rope or hawser. The pendant, whi...
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top-timber breadth
The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line.
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top-timber hollow
A name sometimes given to the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top-timber.
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top your boom
See boom.
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top-rider futtocks
These timbers stand nearly the same as breadth-riders, and very much strengthen the top-side.
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white boot-top
A painted white line carried fore and aft on the hammock-netting base. It gives a longer appearance ...
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Long Shop in Cheap
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long and short boards
See tack and half-tack.
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hands reef top-sails!
The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers.
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sprit-sail top-sail
A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom.
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top a boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...
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top a yard or boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...
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top-gallant quarter-boards
, or top-gallant bulwarks.
See quarter-boards.
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top the glim, to
To snuff the candle.
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top the officer, to
To arrogate superiority.
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warping and framing the timbers
Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...
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Green Dragon Inn, Long Lane
See Green Dragon Yard, Long Lane.
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White Hart Alley, Long Lane
See White Hart Court.
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