lower-breadth-sweep | The Sailor's Word-Book

Related Words

Sweep
·noun The almond furnace. II. Sweep ·vi To strike with a long stroke. III. Sweep ·noun The act of ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
sweep
n. a marine fish of the Australian coasts, called by this name in Sydney. It is Scorpisaequipinnis,...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
sweep
The pole or piece of timber moved on a fulcrum or post, used to lower and raise a bucket in a well f...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
sweep
The trending or inclination of a coast to a crescent. Also, that part of the mould of a ship, where ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Breadth
·adj Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the l...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
breadth
The measure of a vessel from side to side in any particular place athwart-ships. (See straight of br...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Lower
·adj Compar. of Low, ·adj. II. Lower ·noun Cloudiness; gloominess. III. Lower ·noun A frowning; su...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Sweep-saw
·noun A bow-saw. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
back-sweep
That which forms the hollow of the top-timber of a frame. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
sweep-piece
A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...

The Sailor's Word-Book
tiller-sweep
See sweep of the tiller. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower handsomely, lower cheerly
Are opposed to each other; the former being the order to lower gradually, and the latter to lower ex...

The Sailor's Word-Book
breadth extreme
See extreme breadth or beam. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
breadth line
A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the mid...

The Sailor's Word-Book
breadth-moulded
See moulded breadth. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
breadth-riders
Timbers placed nearly in the broadest part of the ship, and diagonally, so as to strengthen two or m...

The Sailor's Word-Book
extreme breadth
The extent of the midships, or dead flat, with the thickness of the bottom plank included. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
line-breadth
See breadth line. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
main-breadth
The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...

The Sailor's Word-Book
moulded breadth
The measure of beam from outside to outside of the timbers, without the thickness of the plank. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Lower-case
·adj Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; — used to denote the small letters, in distinction ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Lower Court
In the Little Minories (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Lower Mews
Out of the Crescent, Minories, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
lower, to
The atmosphere to become cloudy. Also, to ease down gradually, expressed of some weighty body suspen...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower counter
The counter between the upper counter and the rail under the lights. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-deckers
The heaviest armament, usually on the lower deck. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-finishing
See finishings. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-height
See main-breadth. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-hold
The space for cargo in a merchant-vessel, fitted with 'tween-decks. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-hope
A well-known reach in the Thames where ships wait for the turn of the tide. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower-lifts
The lifts of the fore, main, and crossjack-yards. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower masts
See mast. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lower transit
The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
half-breadth plan
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
height of breadth
In ship-building, is a delineation generally in two lines upper and lower determining the height of ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
straight of breadth
The space before and abaft the dead-flat, in which the ship is of the same uniform breadth as at the...

The Sailor's Word-Book
top-timber breadth
The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Lower East Smithfield
West from Little Thames Street to the Hermitage Swing Bridge and Basin (P.O. Directory). In the eig...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Lower Thames Street
East from London Bridge to Tower Hill (P.O. Directory). In Tower, Billingsgate and Bridge Wards. Fi...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
lower-hold-beams
The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
sweep of the tiller
A semicircular frame on which the tiller traverses in large ships; it is fixed under the beams near ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
open lower deckers, to
To fire the lower tier of guns. Also said of a person using violent language. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
narrowing of the floor-sweep
For this peculiar curve, see half-breadth of the rising. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
half-breadth of the rising
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Salutation Tavern, Lower Thames Street
See Salutation Court. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
housing of a lower mast
That part of a mast which is below deck to the step in the kelson; of a bowsprit, the portion within...

The Sailor's Word-Book
mate of the lower-deck
An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

The Sailor's Word-Book
run, to lower by the
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Nag's Head Court, Lower Thames Street
See Wilson's Yard. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
running out, and running in, the lower deck guns
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

The Sailor's Word-Book