middle-wales

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• wales

  The thickest strakes of wrought stuff in a vessel. Strong planks extending all along the outward tim...

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• Middle

  ·adj Intermediate; intervening. II. Middle ·adj the <<Waist>>. III. Middle ·adj Equally distant fr...

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• Petty Wales

  1) Tenements so called in parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, 1563, within the Clo...

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• channel-wales

  Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships. Also, the outside plank...

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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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• sheer-wales

  Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-por...

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• Middle-age

  ·- Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval. ...

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• Middle-aged

  ·adj Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old. ...

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• Middle-earth

  ·noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. ...

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• Middle-ground

  ·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. ...

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• Middle Court

  In Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Middle Row

  1) In Newgate Street, extending from Blow bladder street to Newgate Market (Leake, 1666). In Farring...

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• Middle Street

  West out of Cloth Street to King Street and Cloth Fair (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without....

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• Middle Temple

  One of the Inns of Court (q.v.). On the western side of the Temple precincts, to the west of Middle...

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• middle band

  One of the bands of a sail, to give additional strength. ...

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• middle-timber

  That timber in the stern which is placed amidships. ...

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• middle-topsail

  A deep-roached sail, set in some schooners and sloops on the heel of their top-masts between the top...

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• middle-watch

  The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...

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• middle-watcher

  The slight meal snatched by officers of the middle-watch about five bells (or 2·30 A.M.) ...

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• New South Wales

  n. the name of the oldest andmost important colony in Australia. The name «New Wales» wasfirst give...

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• Middle New Street

  East out of Great New Street at No. 18 and New Street Square, Fetter Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farri...

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• Middle Temple Hall

  On the west side of Middle Temple Lane, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). Great Hall new...

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• Middle Temple Lane

  South out of Fleet Street at No. 3 through the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward...

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• middle-latitude sailing

  A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle lat...

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