lower-hold

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• lower-hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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• Lower

  ·adj Compar. of Low, ·adj. II. Lower ·noun Cloudiness; gloominess. III. Lower ·noun A frowning; su...

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• Hold

  ·noun Binding power and influence. II. Hold ·noun The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. ...

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• Hold

  A fortress, the name given to David's lurking-places (1 Sam. 22:4, 5; 24:22). ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hold

  a place where people stay to chat in when they are sent on an errand ; a loitering place. N. ...

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• hold

  The whole interior cavity of a ship, or all that part comprehended between the floor and the lower d...

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• lower handsomely, lower cheerly

  Are opposed to each other; the former being the order to lower gradually, and the latter to lower ex...

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• Lower-case

  ·adj Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; — used to denote the small letters, in distinction ...

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• Lower Court

  In the Little Minories (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Lower Mews

  Out of the Crescent, Minories, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps. ...

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• lower, to

  The atmosphere to become cloudy. Also, to ease down gradually, expressed of some weighty body suspen...

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• lower counter

  The counter between the upper counter and the rail under the lights. ...

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• lower-deckers

  The heaviest armament, usually on the lower deck. ...

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• lower-finishing

  See finishings. ...

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• lower-height

  See main-breadth. ...

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• lower-hope

  A well-known reach in the Thames where ships wait for the turn of the tide. ...

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• lower-lifts

  The lifts of the fore, main, and crossjack-yards. ...

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• lower masts

  See mast. ...

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• lower transit

  The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...

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• Anchor-hold

  ·noun Hence: Firm hold: security. II. Anchor-hold ·noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to w...

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• Strangle hold

  ·add. ·- In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. ...

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• Toe hold

  ·add. ·- A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot. ...

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• petticoat hold

  One who has an estate during his wife's life, called the apron-string hold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to hold forth

  To harangue; to speak in public.--Todd's Johnson. A petty corjuror telling fortunes, held forth in ...

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• to hold on

  To wait; stop. 'Hold on a minute;' originally a sea phrase. ...

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• to hold up

  In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining. Though nice and dark the p...

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• anchor-hold

  The fastness of the flukes on the ground; also the act of having cast anchor, and taken the ground. ...

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• fore-hold

  The part of the hold before the fore hatchway. ...

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• hold-all

  A portable case for holding small articles required by soldiers, marines, and small-arm men on servi...

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• hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. In a man-of-war they support the orlop-deck. (See orlop-...

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• hold-fast

  A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...

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• hold off

  The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan. ...

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• hold on

  keep all you have got in pulling a rope. ♦ Hold on a minute. Wait or stop. ♦ Hold on with your n...

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• hold-stanchions

  Those which support the hold-beams amidships, and rest on the kelson. ...

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• main-hold

  That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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• Lower East Smithfield

  West from Little Thames Street to the Hermitage Swing Bridge and Basin (P.O. Directory). In the eig...

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• Lower Thames Street

  East from London Bridge to Tower Hill (P.O. Directory). In Tower, Billingsgate and Bridge Wards. Fi...

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• lower-breadth-sweep

  The second on the builder's draught, representing the lower height of breadth, on which line is set ...

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• apron string hold

  An estate held by a man during his wife's life. ...

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• depth of hold

  The height between the floor and the lower-deck; it is therefore one of the principal dimensions giv...

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• hold up, to

  In meteorological parlance, for the weather to clear up after a gale; to stop raining. ...

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• open lower deckers, to

  To fire the lower tier of guns. Also said of a person using violent language. ...

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• captain of the hold

  The last of the captains in rank, as a first-class petty officer. ...

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• height of the hold

  Used for the depth of the hold. ...

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• hold on, good sticks!

  An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...

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• pillar of the hold

  A main stanchion with notches for descent. ...

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• trim of the hold

  The arrangement of the cargo, &c., by which a vessel carries sail well, and becomes under control as...

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• Salutation Tavern, Lower Thames Street

  See Salutation Court. ...

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• 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...

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• mate of the lower-deck

  An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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• run, to lower by the

  To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head. ...

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• hold a good wind, to

  To have weatherly qualities. ...

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• Nag's Head Court, Lower Thames Street

  See Wilson's Yard. ...

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• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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• 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...

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