opposite tacks

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• Opposite

  ·noun That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. II. Opposite ·adj Extremel...

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• coat-tacks

  The peculiar nails with which the mast coats are fastened. ...

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• jawing-tacks

  When a person speaks with vociferous fluency, he is said to have hauled his jawing-tacks on board. ...

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• pump-tacks

  Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...

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• short-tacks

  See short boards. ...

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• rise tacks and sheets

  The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing. ...

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• raise or rise tacks and sheets

  The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing. ...

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• becket, the tacks and sheets in the

  The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...

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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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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose