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Main
·adj Vast; huge.
II. Main ·noun A main-hamper.
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main
very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C.
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main
A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean.
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Mast
·noun The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
II. Mast ·noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or ot...
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mast
[Anglo-Saxon mæst, also meant chief or greatest]. A long cylindrical piece of timber elevated perpen...
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Royal
·noun A small mortar.
II. Royal ·add. ·noun A royal spade.
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royal
The name of a light sail spread immediately next above the top-gallant sail, to whose yard-arms the ...
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Main yard
·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
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Main-gauche
·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right;
— used to parry thru...
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Main-hamper
·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
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Main-sail
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...
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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army.
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main-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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main-brace
A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind.
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main-breadth
The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...
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main-capstan
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan.
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main-course
The main-sail.
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main-guard
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place.
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main-hold
That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch.
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main-ice
A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...
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main-jeers
Jeers for swaying up the main-yard.
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main-keel
The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson.
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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...
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main-post
The stern-post, as distinguished from the false-post and inner-post.
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main-sail
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...
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main-shaft
The principal shaft in machinery.
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main-spring
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
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main-staysail
A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts.
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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main-transom
A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see).
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main-wales
The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...
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Half-mast
·noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mou...
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Jury mast
·add. ·- An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease.
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dur-mast
An inferior oak of more rapid growth than the true English.
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fore-mast
The forward lower-mast in all vessels. (See mast.)
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foretop-mast
See top-mast.
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half-mast
The lowering a flag in respect for the death of an officer.
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jigger-mast
In large vessels it is an additional aftermost mast; thus any sail set on the ensign-staff would be ...
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jury-mast
A temporary or occasional mast erected in a ship in the place of one which has been carried away in ...
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mast-carlings
Those large carlings which are placed at the sides of the masts from beam to beam, to frame the part...
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mast-coat
A conical canvas fitted over the wedges round the mast, to prevent water oozing down from the decks....
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mast-head
The upper part of a mast above the rigging.
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mast-heading
A well-known marine punishment, said to give midshipmen the best time for reading. A court-martial, ...
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mast-high
A figurative expression of height.
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mast-holes
The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts.
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mast-hoops
The iron hoops on made or built masts.
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mast-house
In dockyards, where masts are made.
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mast-rope
[Anglo-Saxon mæst-ràp]. That which is used for sending masts up or down.
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mizen-mast
The aftermost mast of a ship (see shrouds, stay, yard, &c.), observing only that the epithet of fore...
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sheer-mast
The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...
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skysail-mast
The pole or upper portion of a royal mast, when long enough to serve for setting a skysail; otherwis...
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topgallant-mast
The third mast above the deck; the uppermost before the days of royals and flying kites.
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top-mast
The second division of a mast above the deck. (See mast.)
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trysail-mast
A spar abaft the fore and main mast, for hoisting the trysail.
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Pairs Royal
·pl of <<Pair>>.
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Royal spade
·add. ·- A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the s...
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Spur-royal
·noun A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling th...
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Royal Exchange
Between Cornhill South and Threadneedle Street north, in Broad Street and Cornhill Wards (P.O. Direc...
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Royal Mint
Between Royal Mint Street north and Upper East Smithfield south (P.O. Directory).
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Tower Royal
North out of Cannon Street, at No.75, to Budge Row (P.O. Directory). In Cordwainer Ward.
It formerl...
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battle-royal
A battle or bout at cudgels or fisty-cuffs, wherein more than two persons are engaged: perhaps from ...
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purl royal
Canary wine; with a dash of tincture of wormwood.
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royal scamps
Highwaymen who never rob any but rich persons, and that without ill treating them.
See scamp.
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battle-royal
A term derived from cock-fighting, but generally applied to a noisy confused row.
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cannon royal
A 60-pounder of eight and a half inches bore. (See carthoun.)
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fish, royal
Whale and sturgeon, to which the sovereign is entitled when either thrown on shore or caught near th...
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poop-royal
A short deck or platform placed over the aftmost part of the poop in the largest of the French and S...
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royal fish
Whales, porpoises, sturgeons, &c., which, when driven on shore, become droits of admiralty.
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royal marines
See marines, the royal.
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royal merchant
A title of the Mediterranean, traders of the thirteenth century, when the Venetians were masters of ...
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royal mortar
A brass one of 5-1/2 inches diameter of bore, and 150 lbs. weight, throwing a 24-pounder shell up to...
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royal standard
See standard.
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royal yacht
A vessel built and equipped expressly for the use of the sovereign.
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royal yard
The fourth yard from the deck, on which the royal is set.
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as deaf as the main-mast
Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...
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coup de main
A sudden and vigorous attack.
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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking.
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main-tack block
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to.
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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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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main-topsail haul!
The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set.
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main-yard men
Those in the doctor's list.
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square main-sail
See main-sail.
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afore the mast
See before the mast.
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before the mast
The station of the working seamen, as distinguishing them from the officers.
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fore-mast man
From "before the mast." A private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship.
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foretop-gallant-mast
See topgallant-mast, to which may be added its proper sail, yard, and studding-sail.
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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars.
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hand mast-spar
A round mast; those from Riga are commonly over 70 feet long by 20 inches diameter.
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mast-head men
The men stationed aloft to keep a look-out.
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mast-head pendants
See pendant.
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mizen mast-head
Rear-admirals carry their flag at their mizen.
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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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(St.) Michael, Paternoster Royal
On the east side of College Hill at No. 20 at its junction with College Street. In Vintry Ward (P.O....
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Royal African Company
See Africa House.
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Royal African House
See Africa House.
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Royal Bagnio Court
At the end of Bagnio Lane in Newgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Now Roman Bath Street (q.v.).
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Royal Exchange Avenue
West out of Finch Lane, at No.21, to Royal Exchange Buildings. In Broad Street Ward (P.O. Directory)...
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Royal Exchange Buildings
South out of Threadneedle Street, at No. 1, to 82 Corn-hill (P.O. Directory), on the east side of th...
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Royal Hotel (De Keyser's) Buildings
On the north side of Victoria Embankment, west of Blackfriars Station (P.O. Directory). In Farringdo...
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Royal Mint Square
South out of Royal Mint Street, east of Cartwright Street (P.O. Directory).
First shown in O.S. 25 ...
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Royal Mint Street
East from Sparrow Corner, Minories, to Cable Street (P.O. Directory). A small portion only in Portso...
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Royal Oak Yard
In Whitecross Street, Cripplegate (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Royal Society's House
On the south side of Pemberton's Row, Gough Square, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
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Tower Royal Court
East out of Tower Royal, in Cordwainer Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
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Tower Royal Lane
In Budge Row (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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royal stag society
Was held every Monday evening, at seven o'clock, at the Three tuns, near the Hospital Gate, Newgate-...
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artillery, royal marine
Formerly a select branch of the R. Marines, specially instructed in gunnery and the care of artiller...
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marines, the royal
A body of officers and soldiers raised to serve on board men-of-war, and trained to fight either at ...
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royal marine artillery
Originally selected from the royal marines, now specially enlisted. (See artillery, royal marine.)
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royal naval reserve
See naval reserve.
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royal yacht club
A very useful and honourable association. (See yacht club, royal.)
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yacht club, royal
An institution embodied by a number of noblemen and gentlemen about the year 1820, to which certain ...
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fill the main-yard
An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...
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splice the main brace
In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...
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jury mast. a journiere
mast; i.e. a mast for the day or occasion.
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cheeks of the mast
The faces or projecting parts on each side of the masts, formed to sustain the trestle-trees upon wh...
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dolphin of the mast
A kind of wreath or strap formed of plaited cordage, to be fastened occasionally round the lower yar...
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head of a mast
, or mast-head.
The upper part of any mast, or that whereon the caps or trucks are fitted.
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heel of a mast
The lower end, which either fits into the step attached to the keel, or in top-masts is sustained by...
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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to
To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...
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wring a mast, to
To bend, cripple, or strain it out of its natural position by setting the shrouds up too taut. The p...
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main-piece of the rudder
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post.
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mate of the main-deck
The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...
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stay-tackles, fore and main
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...
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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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Cartridge Street, Royal Mint Street
See Cartwright Street.
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Crown Place, Royal Mint Street
See Crown and Sheers Place.
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Middelborr Alley, Royal Mint Street
See Peter's Court.
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Queen Street, Royal Mint Street
South out of Royal Mint Street to Little Tower Hill (W. Stow, 1722-O.S. 1894-6).
Removed for the co...
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Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields
On the south side of City Road in
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Worley's Court, Royal Mint Street
See Morley's Court.
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lieutenant, in the royal navy
The officer next in rank and power below the commander. There are several lieutenants in a large shi...
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pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...
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wages or pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...
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Little Peter Court, Royal Mint Street
See Peter's Court.
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Seven Star Alley, Royal Mint Street
See Seven Star Court.
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White Horse Court, Royal Mint Street
North out of Royal Mint Street in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel (P.C. 1732-O.S. 25 in. 1880). F...
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victualling-yards for the royal navy
Large magazines where provisions and similar stores are deposited, conveniently contiguous to the ro...
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haul aboard the fore and main tacks
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side.
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