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Tack
·noun A stain; a tache.
II. Tack ·vt To fasten or attach.
III. Tack ·vt Confidence; reliance.
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tack
A rope to confine the weather lower corners of the courses and staysails when the wind crosses the s...
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Main
·adj Vast; huge.
II. Main ·noun A main-hamper.
III. Main ·adj Important; necessary.
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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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Block
·add. ·noun A block hole.
II. Block ·vt The pattern or shape of a hat.
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block
A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very use...
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block
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(In mechanics termed a pulley.) Blocks are flattish oval pieces of wood, with sheaves in them, ...
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tack and half-tack
Working to windward, or along shore, by long and short boards, or legs, alternately.
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block and block
The situation of a tackle when the blocks are drawn close together, so that the mechanical power bec...
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Hard-tack
·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
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fore-tack
Weather tack of the fore-sail hauled to the fore-boomkin when on a wind.
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skee-tack
A northern name for the cuttle-fish.
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slant tack
That which is most favourable to the course when working to windward.
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soft tack
See soft tommy
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tack-pins
The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins.
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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;
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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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Belgian block
·add. ·- A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, ·esp. granite, used as a material for street pa...
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Block book
·- A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
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Block chain
·add. ·- A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted ...
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Block signal
·add. ·- One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block s...
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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...
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Block tin
·- ·see under <<Tin>>.
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Cautionary block
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Fish-block
·noun ·see Fish-tackle.
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Pillar-block
·noun ·see under <<Pillow>>.
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Plumber block
·- A pillow block.
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Snatch block
·- a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
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Stumbling-block
·noun Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
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Top-block
·noun A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, —...
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block houses
Prisons, houses of correction, &c.
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upping block
(Called in some counties a leaping stock, in others a jossing block.) Steps for mounting a horse. He...
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
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block-house
A small fort built of logs which project some six or eight feet over a wooden or stone foundation, f...
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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yu-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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yule-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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block-maker
A manufacturer of blocks.
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built-block
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made.
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bushed-block
See coak.
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cat-block
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw...
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d-block
A lump of oak in the shape of a D, bolted to the ship's side in the channels to reeve the lifts thro...
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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fiddle-block
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper (see long-tackl...
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fly-block
The block spliced into the topsail-tye; it is large and flat, and sometimes double.
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hook-block
Any block, of iron or wood, strapped with a hook.
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jack-block
A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...
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monkey-block
A small single block strapped with a swivel. Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchan...
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notch-block
See snatch-block.
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rack-block
A range of sheaves cut in one piece of wood, for running ropes to lead through.
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cistern block
See sister block
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sister block
or cistern block
A turned cylindrical block having two sheave-holes, one above the other. It fits ...
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snatch-block
A single iron-bound block, with an opening in one side above the sheave, in which the bight of a rop...
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tail-block
A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...
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top-block
A large single block with an iron strop and hook, by which it is hooked into an eye-bolt under the l...
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treble-block
One fitted with three sheaves or rollers.
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tye-block
The block on the yard through which the tye is rove, and passes on to be secured at the mast-head. T...
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warping-block
A block made of ash or elm, used in rope-making for warping off yarn.
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on either tack
Any way or every way; a colloquialism.
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tack or sheet
A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution.
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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-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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block, on the
1) On the promenade above referred to.
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chock-a-block
, or chock and block
Is the same with block-a-block and two-blocks (which see). When the lower blo...
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nine-pin block
A block in that form, mostly used for a fair-leader under the cross-pieces of the forecastle and qua...
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strop-bound block
A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulde...
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bend on the tack
In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...
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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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jaw of a block
The space in the shell where the sheave revolves.
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score of a block, or of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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thick and thin block
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A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...
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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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eye of a block-strop
That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rig...
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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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