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• Monkey

  ·noun Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs. II. Monkey ·noun A small trading vessel of the ...

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• monkey

  To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of ...

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• monkey

  A machine composed of a long pig of iron, traversing in a groove, which is raised by a pulley, and l...

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• rough-spars

  Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c. ...

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• Monkey-bread

  ·noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. ·see <<Adansonia>>. ...

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• Monkey-cup

  ·noun ·see <<Nepenthes>>. ...

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• Monkey-pot

  ·noun The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for thei...

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• Water monkey

  ·add. ·- A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation. ...

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• powder monkey

  A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. ...

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• monkey-bear

  or Monkey n. i.q. Native Bear. See Bear. 1853. C. St. Julian and E. K. Silvester, `TheProductions...

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• monkey-shaft

  n. «A shaft rising from a lowerto a higher level (as a rule perpendicularly), and differingfrom a b...

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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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• monkey-boat

  A half-decked boat above-bridge on the Thames. ...

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• monkey-jacket

  A warm jacket for night-watches, &c. ...

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• monkey-pump

  Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...

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• monkey-tail

  A lever for training a carronade. ...

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• powder-monkey

  Formerly the boy of the gun, who had charge of the cartridge; now powder-man. ...

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• bleeding the monkey

  The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess s...

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• suck the monkey, to

  To rob the grog-can. (See monkey.) ...

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