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-or
·- A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, ·etc.
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Or
·prep & ·adv Ere; before; sooner than.
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Down
·adj Downcast; as, a down look.
II. Down ·adv From a remoter or higher antiquity.
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down
Aware of a thing. Knowing it. There is NO DOWN. A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that...
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down
I.
n.
a prejudice against, hostility to;a peculiarly Australian noun made out of the adverb.
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Out
·vt To come out with; to make known.
II. Out ·vi To come or go out; to get out or away; to become p...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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out at heels, or out at elbows
In declining circumstances.
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Se-or
·noun A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.
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down wind, down sea
A proverbial expression among seamen between the tropics, where the sea is soon raised by the wind, ...
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Down-share
·noun A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
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Down-wind
·add. ·adv With the wind.
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Lock-down
·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting;
— used by lumbermen.
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Steep-down
·adj Deep and precipitous, having steep descent.
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Step-down
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressu...
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Swan's-down
·noun ·Alt. of Swans-down.
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Swans-down
·noun The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
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Tumble-down
·adj Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
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down hills
Dice that run low.
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to drop down
To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die gam...
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boil down
v.
to reduce a statement to itssimplest form; a constant term amongst pressmen. Over thereporters' ...
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knock-down
v.
generally of a cheque. To spendriotously, usually in drink.
1869. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic P...
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lamb down
v. tr.
1) To knock down a cheque or a sum of money in a spree.There is an old English verb, of Scan...
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mulga-down
n.
hills covered with Mulga.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvii. p. 201:
«Fascin...
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take (a man) down
Australian sporting slang.
1) Toinduce a man to bet, knowing that he must lose.
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clap down
To set down; charge to one's account.
If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...
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to knock down
A word used at auctions. 'This article is knocked down to you, sir;' meaning, that you are the purch...
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down upon
To be down upon, is to seize with avidity, as a bird of prey would pounce down upon its victim. Allu...
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slipper-down
A vulgar name in some parts of Connecticut for hasty pudding. The etymology is obvious.
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down-lying
just going to be brought to bed. N.
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blacking down
The tarring and blacking of rigging; or the operation of blacking the ship's sides with tar or miner...
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bore down
Sailed down from to windward.
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cutting down
Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...
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down along
Sailing coastways down Channel.
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down east
Far away in that bearing. This term, as down west, &c., is an Americanism, recently adopted into our...
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down-haul
A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to t...
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down killock!
Let go the grapnel; the corruption of keel-hook or anchor.
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down oars!
The order on shoving off a boat when the men have had them "tossed up."
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go down
The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.
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heaving down
(See careening.) The bringing one of a ship's sides down into the water, by means of purchases on th...
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hove down
, properly hove out or careened. The situation of a ship when heeled or placed thus for repairs.
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hull-down
Is said of a ship when at such a distance that, from the convexity of the globe, only her masts and ...
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laying down
, or laying off.
The act of delineating the various lines of a ship to the full size on the mould-...
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pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship.
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riding-down
The act of the men who throw their weight on the head of a sail to stretch it. Also, of the man who ...
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strike down!
The order to lower casks, &c., into the hold.
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union down
When a ship hoists her ensign upside down it is a signal of distress or of mourning.
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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Cut-out
·noun A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
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Diner-out
·noun One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
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Go-out
·noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out...
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Knock-out
·add. ·noun Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.
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Out-Herod
·vt To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
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Out-patient
·noun A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
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Printing out
·add. ·- A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action ...
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Punt-out
·add. ·noun A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one...
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Stopping-out
·noun A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently ...
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Straight-out
·adj Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
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Top out
·add. ·- To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top``ping-out...
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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded.
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Worn-out
·adj Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
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Wung-out
·adj Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
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hang out
The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live.
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cut out
v.
1) To separate cattle from therest of the herd in the open.
1873. Marcus Clarke, `Holiday Peak,...
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duffer out
v.
A mine is said to duffer out,when it has ceased to be productive.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advan...
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dug-out
n.
a name imported into New Zealandfrom America, but the common name for an ordinary Maori canoe.
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out-station
n. a sheep or cattle stationaway from the Head-station (q.v.).
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peg-out
v. tr.
to mark out a gold-claim underthe Mining Act, or a Free-Selection (q.v.) under theLand Act, ...
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pinch-out
v.
to thin out and disappear (ofgold-bearing). This use is given in the `Standard,' butwithout quot...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to blurt out
To speak inadvertently, and without reflection.
They blush if they blurt out, are well aware
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to chalk out
To mark or trace out as with chalk.--Johnson. To chalk out a plan or proceeding, is to devise or lay...
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to clear out
To take oneself off; to depart, decamp. A vulgar expression.
This thing of man-worship I am a stran...
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to cut out
To supersede one in the affections of another. A familiar expression in common use: "Miss A was enga...
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to fizzle out
To be quenched, extinguished; to prove a failure. A favorite expression in Ohio.
The factious and r...
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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...
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to flunk out
To retire through fear; to back out.
Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you flunk out out bef...
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to let out
To begin a story or narrative. A Western expression.
Tom squared himself for a yarn, wet his lips w...
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to put out
To remove; to be off. A Western expression. To put is used in the same sense.
As my wife's father h...
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to shell out
means to hand over money.
Witness the testimony of Major Noah and others in New York, who prove tha...
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to snake out
To drag out; to haul out, as a snake from its hole. A farmer in clearing land, attaches a chain to a...
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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camp out
To encamp out of doors for the night.
The surveying party did not always retire to the hut at night...
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dragged out
Fatigued; exhausted; worn out with labor.
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dug-out
The name in the Western States for a canoe or boat, hewn or dug out of a large log. They are common ...
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fagged out
Fatigued; worn out.
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tuckered out
Tired out; fatigued. Used in New York and New England.
I guess the Queen don't do her eating very a...
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barring-out
The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the mas...
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dorz'd out
spoken of corn, beaten out by the agitation of the wind. N.
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out-catch
to overtake. North.
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out-cumbling
a stranger. Lane.
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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camp-out
See camp, to
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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry.
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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...
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falling out
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring.
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heaving out
The act of loosing or unfurling a sail; particularly applied to the staysails; or in the tops, footi...
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levelled out
Any line continued out from a given point, or intersection of an angle, in a horizontal direction.
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lie out!
The order to the men aloft to distribute themselves on the yards for loosing, reefing, or furling sa...
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look-out
Watchful attention; there is always a look-out kept from the forecastle, foretopsail-yard, or above,...
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out-board
The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board.
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out-boats
The order to hoist out the boats.
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out-haul
, or out-hauler
A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...
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out-holling
Clearing tide-ports, canals, and channels of mud.
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out-licker
A corruption of out-rigger (which see).
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out-lier
A word which has been often used for out-rigger, but applies to outlying rocks, visible above water....
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out-oars
The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat.
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out-pensioners
Those entitled to pensions from Greenwich Hospital, but not admitted to "the house."
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out-ports
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
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out-rigger
A strong beam, of which there are several, passed through the ports of a ship, and firmly lashed at ...
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paying out
The act of slackening a cable or rope, so as to let it run freely. When a man talks grandiloquently,...
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rigging out
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar.
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selling out
An officer in the army wishing to retire from the service, may do so by disposing of his commission....
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splitting out
To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...
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stretch out!
In rowing, is the order to pull strong; to bend forward to the utmost.
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Dogge, or Talbot
See Queen's Arms.
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Precincts or Liberties
These were certain privileged areas within the City of London which, prior to 1697, were exempt from...
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baptized, or christened
Rum, brandy, or any other spirits, that have been lowered with water.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hob or nob
Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hit or miss
To do a thing hit or miss, is to do it at all hazards; that is, with a chance of hitting or gaining,...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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Bernice, Or Berenice
(bringing victory), the eldest daughter of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:1) etc. She was first married t...
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Bigthan, Or Bigthana
(gift of God), a eunuch (chamberlain, Authorized Version) in the court of Ahasuerus, one of those "w...
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Cuth, Or Cuthah
one of the countries whence Shalmaneser introduced colonists into Samaria. (2 Kings 17:24,30) Its po...
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Ephratah, Or Ephrath
(fruitful).
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Sabtecha, Or Sabtechah
(striking), (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9) the fifth in order of the sons of Cush. (B.C. 2218.)
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Shimshai, Or Shimshai
(sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Jud...
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knock me down
Strong ale or beer, stingo.
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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...
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down all chests!
The order to get all the officers' and seamen's chests down below from off the gun-decks when cleari...
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down all hammocks!
The order for all the sailors to carry their hammocks down, and hang them up in their respective ber...
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down-haul tackles
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
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edge down, to
To approach any object in an oblique direction.
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fall down, to
To sail, drift, or be towed to some lower part nearer a river's mouth or opening.
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hauling down vacancy
The colloquialism expressive of the promotion of a flag-lieutenant and midshipman on an admiral's ha...
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jaw-me-down
An arrogant, overbearing, and unsound loud arguer.
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peak down-haul
A rope rove through a block at the outer end of the gaff to haul it down by.
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running-down clause
A special admission into policies of marine insurance, to include the risk of loss or damage in cons...
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ship cut down
One which has had a deck cut off from her, whereby a three-decker is converted into a two-decker, an...
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try down, to
To boil out the oil from blubber at sea in whalers.
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up and down
The situation of the cable when it has been hove in sufficiently to bring the ship directly over the...
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Knock-out drops
·add. ·- Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, ·etc.
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Out-of-door
·adj Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. ·se...
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to cut out of
To cheat, deprive of.
Having been cut out of my speech in Congress, by the "previous question."--Cr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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out of fix
Disarranged; in a state of disorder.
The week was the longest one ever was. It seemed to me that th...
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out of sorts
Out of order; disordered. Dr. Millingen, in his remarks on persons of phlegmatic temperament, says:
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blown itself out
Said of a falling gale of wind.
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bright look-out
A vigilant one.
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cut out, to
To attack and carry a vessel by a boat force; one of the most dashing and desperate services practis...
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fag-out, to
to wear out the end of a rope or end of canvas.
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fall out, to
To increase in breadth. Among soldiers and small-arm men, to quit the ranks of a company.
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heave out there!
The order to hasten men from their hammocks.
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heaving keel out
The utmost effect to be produced by careening, viz. to raise the keel out of the water in order to r...
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hove keel out
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
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in and out
A term sometimes used for the scantling of timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bol...
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line out stuff
To mark timber for dressing to shape.
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out-and-outer
An old phrase signifying thorough excellence; a man up to his duty, and able to perform it in style....
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out-earing cleat
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle.
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out-flank, to
By a longer front, to overlap the enemy's opposite line, and thus gain a chance to turn his flank.
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out of commission
A ship where officers and men are paid off, and pennant hauled down.
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out of trim
A ship not properly balanced for fast sailing, which may be by a defect in the rigging or in the sto...
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out of winding
Said of a plank or piece of timber which has a fair and even surface without any twists: the opposit...
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out-sail, to
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch.
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reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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ream or reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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serving out slops
Distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.
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step out, to
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c.
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(Holy) Cross or Holy Rood
An old parish in Aldgate Ward, conterminous with the Parish of Holy Trinity (S. 142). Stow tells us ...
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Maypole Alley or Court
North out of Upper East Smithfield at No. 22 (Lockie, 1810, to O.S. 25 in. 1894-6).
The name appear...
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Nan's Hole or Yard
In Angel Street, St. Martin's le Grand (Strype, Ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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(St.) Nicholas Hacon or Hakoun
See St. Nicholas Acon.
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a blasted fellow or brimstone
An abandoned rogue or prostitute. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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Edom, Idumaea Or Idumea
(red). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when ...
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down in the mouth
Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary.
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down in the mouth
Low-spirited or disheartened.
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down with the helm!
An order to put the helm a-lee.
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drop down a river
Synonymous with falling (which see).
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rattle down rigging, to
or, to rattle the shrouds.
To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...
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right up and down
Said in a dead calm, when the wind is no way at all. Or, in anchor work, when the cable is in that c...
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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
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up-and-down tackle
A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...
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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fitting out a ship
The act of providing a ship with sufficient masts, sails, yards, ammunition, artillery, cordage, anc...
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haul out to leeward!
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed.
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look out for squalls
Beware; cautionary.
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sharp look-out before!
The hail for the forecastle look-out men to be extremely vigilant.
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trice up lie out!
The order to lift the studding-sail boom-ends while the top-men move out on the yards, preparatory t...
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turn out the guard!
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...
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(St.) Benet at, or del Wodewharf
See Benet Paul's Wharf.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Breakneck Court, Steps, or Stairs
In Black Horse Alley, Fleet Street, leading up steep steps into the Old Bailey, opposite the Session...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Brown Bear Alley or Court
North out of Upper East Smithfield, at No. 1, in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate (L.C.C. List, 19...
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(St.) Nicholas Acuns Lane or Street
See Nicholas Lane.
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Pawlet House or Powlet Honse
See Augustin Friars.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ropere Lane or Roppe Lane
See Love Lane2, Billingsgate.
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Siuendestret or Lane, Sivende Lane
See Seething Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.