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Guard
·vt Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. II. Guard ·noun To fasten by binding; to <<Gir...

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Guard
1) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell ...

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guard
The duty performed by a body of men stationed to watch and protect any post against surprise. A divi...

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Main
·adj Vast; huge. II. Main ·noun A main-hamper. III. Main ·adj Important; necessary. IV. Main ·nou...

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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. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
main
A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean. ...

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Avant-guard
·noun The van or advanced body of an army. ·see <<Vanguard>>. ...

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Axle guard
·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...

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Castle-guard
·noun The guard or defense of a castle. II. Castle-guard ·noun A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant...

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Stack-guard
·noun A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack. ...

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black guard
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who ...

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guard-fish
n. Erroneous spelling of Garfish (q.v.). ...

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after-guard
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...

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baggage-guard
A small proportion of any body of troops on the march, to whom the care of the whole baggage is assi...

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forage-guard
A party detached to cover foragers, those wooding, watering, &c. ...

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guard-boards
Synonymous with chain-wales. ...

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guard-boat
A boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war in any harbour, &c., to observe that the...

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guard-book
Report of guard; a copy of which is delivered at the admiral's office by the officer of the last gua...

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guard-fish
A corruption of the word gar-fish. ...

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guard-irons
Curved bars of iron placed over the ornaments of a ship to defend them from damage. ...

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guard-ship
A vessel of war appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbour, and to visit the ships whi...

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health-guard
Officers appointed to superintend the due observance of the quarantine regulations. ...

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quarter-guard
A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...

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rear-guard
That part of the army which brings up and protects the rear. ...

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water-guard
Custom-house officers employed to prevent fraud on the revenue in vessels arriving at, or departing ...

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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-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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report of guard
The document rendered in by the guard-boat, of every vessel boarded during her hours of duty, with t...

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coup de main
A sudden and vigorous attack. ...

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main royal-mast
That above the main topgallant-mast. ...

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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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turn out the guard!
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...

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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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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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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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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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