lubber's point

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• Point

  ·noun A <<Switch>>. II. Point ·noun To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points. III. Point ·noun One of...

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• point

  To stretch a point; to exceed some usual limit, to take a great stride. Breeches were usually tied u...

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• point

  A low spit of land projecting from the main into the sea, almost synonymous with promontory or head....

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• land lubbers

  Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering. ...

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• lubber's hole

  The vacant space between the head of a lower-mast and the edge of the top, so termed from timid clim...

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• Cover-point

  ·noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point.". ...

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• Dew-point

  ·noun The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of th...

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• Dust-point

  ·noun An old rural game. ...

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• Libration point

  ·noun any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each...

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• Point alphabet

  ·add. ·- An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. ...

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• Point applique

  ·add. ·- Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-m...

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• Point d'appui

  ·- ·see under <<Appui>>. ...

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• Point switch

  ·add. ·- A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected...

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• Point-blank

  ·adv In a point-blank manner. II. Point-blank ·noun The white spot on a target, at which an arrow o...

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• Point-device

  ·adj ·Alt. of Point-devise. II. Point-device ·adv ·Alt. of Point-devise. ...

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• Point-devise

  ·adv <<Exactly>>. II. Point-devise ·adj Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. ...

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• Trois point

  ·add. ·- The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. ...

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• Vaccine point

  ·add. ·- ·see <<Point>>, ·noun, 26. ...

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• Vantage point

  ·add. ·- A point giving advantage; vantage ground. ...

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• needle point

  A sharper. ...

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• stand-point

  (Germ. stand-punkt.) Place of standing; point of view. An expression lately introduced from the Germ...

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• autumnal point

  That part of the ecliptic whence the sun descends southward. ...

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• balancing-point

  A familiar term for centre of gravity. (See gravity, centre of.) ...

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• dew-point

  A meteorological term for the degree of temperature at which the moisture of the atmosphere would be...

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• half-point

  A subdivision of the compass card, equal to 5° 37′ of the circle. ...

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• point-beacher

  A low woman of Portsmouth. ...

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• point-blank

  Direct on the object; "blank" being the old word for the mark on the practice-butt. ...

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• point iron

  A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line. ...

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• point brass or iron

  A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line. ...

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• point-holes

  The eyelet-holes for the points. ...

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• quarter-point

  A subdivision of the compass-card, equal to 2° 48′ 45″ of the circle. ...

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• point-blank firing

  That wherein no elevation is given to the gun, its axis being pointed for the object. ...

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• point-blank range

  The distance to which a shot was reckoned to range straight, without appreciable drooping from the f...

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• first point of aries

  See aries. ...

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• point a gun, to

  To direct it on a given object. ...

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• point a sail, to

  To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...

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• point-de-galle canoe

  Consists of a single stem of Dúp wood, 18 to 30 feet long, from 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 feet broad, and from ...

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• point of the compass

  The 32d part of the circumference, or 11° 15′. ...

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