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Sail
·noun A wing; a van.
II. Sail ·noun To set sail; to begin a voyage.
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sail
The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise:
Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gor...
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crowd sail, to
To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....
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make sail, to
To increase the quantity of sail already set, either by letting out reefs, or by setting additional ...
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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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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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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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step out, to
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c.
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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.
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point a sail, to
To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.)
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sprit-sail top-sail
A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom.
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haul out to leeward!
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed.
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Studding sail
·- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase...
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Water sail
·- A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to t...
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Main-sail
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...
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top sail
He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...
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drag-sail
Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...
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drift-sail
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...
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fore-sail
The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.)
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ghrime-sail
The old term for a smoke-sail.
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lug-sail
A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the ...
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main-sail
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...
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sail burton
A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...
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sail ho!
The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...
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sail-hook
A small hook used for holding the seams of a sail while in the act of sewing.
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sail-loft
A large apartment in dockyards where the sails are cut out and made.
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sail-loosers
Men specially appointed to loose the sails when getting under weigh, or loosing them to dry.
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sail-maker
A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering ...
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sail-netting
The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...
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sheer-sail
A drift-sail.
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smoke-sail
A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...
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sprit-sail
A sail formerly attached to a yard which hung under the bowsprit, and of importance in naval actions...
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square-sail
The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop.
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steering-sail
An incorrect name for a studding-sail.
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storm-sail
A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale.
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strange sail
A vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown.
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under sail
The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails.
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water-sail
A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair ...
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wind-sail
A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
II. To ·prep Character; condition of being; purpose subserved ...
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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roll up a sail, to
To hand it quickly.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to
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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to
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run out a warp, to
To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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lie-to, to
To cause a vessel to keep her head steady as regards a gale, so that a heavy sea may not tumble into...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking.
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middling a sail
Arranging it for bending to the yard.
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press of sail
As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry.
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pricking a sail
The running a middle seam between the two seams which unite every cloth of a sail to the next adjoin...
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sprit-sail yard
A yard slung across the bowsprit, lashed to the knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib...
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sprit-sail yarding
A cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, &c., that encroach on their b...
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square main-sail
See main-sail.
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square-sail boom
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...
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studding-sail boom
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...
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studding-sail yard
The spar to which the head of the studding-sail is extended.
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top-sail haul!
or main-topsail haul!
When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...
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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...
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put to sea, to
To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination.
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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against 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...
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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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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 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 or down
An exclamation of the boatswain, &c., in ordering men out of their hammocks, i.e. turn out, or your ...
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serving out slops
Distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.
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Lean-to
·adj Having only one slope or pitch;
— said of a roof.
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Set-to
·noun A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
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To-beat
·vt To beat thoroughly or severely.
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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces.
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To-brest
·vt To burst or break in pieces.
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To-day
·noun The present day.
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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to.
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To-name
·noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
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To-rend
·vt To rend in pieces.
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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend.
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to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
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to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
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to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
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to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant. --Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
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to grab
To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, sn...
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hump, to
v.
to shoulder, carry on the back;especially, to hump the swag, or bluey, or drum. See Swag, Bluey,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jump, to
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to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cotton to
'To cotton to one,' is to take a liking to him; to fancy him; literally to stick to him, as cotton w...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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abase, to
An old word signifying to lower a flag or sail. Abaisser is in use in the French marine, and both ma...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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abate, to
An old Anglo-Norman word from abattre, to beat down or destroy; as, to abate a castle or fort, is to...
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abet, to
To excite or encourage a common word, greatly in use at boat-racings, and other competitive acts.
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abrase, to
To dubb or smooth planks.
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accoil, to
To coil together, by folding round. (See coil.)
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accompany, to
To sail together; to sail in convoy.
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accost, to
To pass within hail of a ship; to sail coastwise; to approach, to draw near, or come side by side.
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adjourn, to
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays exc...
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adjust, to
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a ch...
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advance, to
An old word, meaning to raise to honour.
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aid, to
To succour; to supply with provisions or stores.
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allow, to
To concede a destined portion of stores, &c.
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annul, to
To nullify a signal.
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answer, to
To reply, to succeed; as, the frigate has answered the signal. This boat will not answer.
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