mess-traps

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• Traps

  ·noun ·pl Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• traps

  Constables and thief-takers. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• traps

  Goods; household stuff, baggage. English and American. Well, when we alighted, and got the baggage ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Mess

  ·noun Mass; church service. II. Mess ·vt To supply with a mess. III. Mess ·noun The milk given by ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mess

  A portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8). ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mess

  by the mess, by the mass, an oath. Derb. and Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• mess

  Any company of the officers or crew of a ship, who eat, drink, and associate together. (See number.)...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• rattle-traps

  A contemptuous name for any curious portable piece of machinery, or philosophical apparatus. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Mess beef

  ·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mess john

  A Scotch presbyterian teacher or parson. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mess-deck

  The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mess-kid

  A wooden tub for holding cooked victuals or cocoa. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sick-mess

  A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• losing the number of the mess

  Dead, drowned, or killed. (See number.) ...

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