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parrel with ribs and trucks
, or jaw parrels. This is formed by passing the two parts of the parrel-rope through the two holes...

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trucks
Pieces of wood of various forms, though mostly round; they are for different purposes, as wheels on ...

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Parrel
·noun A chimney-piece. II. Parrel ·noun The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the m...

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With
·noun ·see <<Withe>>. II. With ·prep To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contras...

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with
An iron instrument fitted to the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boo...

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shroud-trucks
Small pieces of wood with holes in them, but no sheaves; they are seized on the standing-rigging as ...

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parrel-rope
Is formed of a single rope well served, and fitted with an eye at each end; this being passed round ...

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truss-parrel
That part of a rope-truss which goes round the yard. ...

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to speak with
To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse. C...

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gone with
for become of. 'What is gone with it' 'or with him,' for What has become of it or him?--Sherwood's G...

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great with
Intimate with; high in favor with.--Craven Glossary. Dr. Webster notices this word in the same sense...

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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments. ...

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met up with
for overtook.--Sherwood's Georgia. Mich. The common abbreviation fur Michigan. ...

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bating with child
breeding, gravid. N. ...

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beating with child
breeding. York. ...

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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c. ...

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fell in with
Met by chance. ...

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will, with a
With all zeal and energy. ...

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with a will
Pull all together. ...

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with the sun
Ropes coiled from the left hand towards the right; but where the sun passes the meridian north of th...

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ribs of a parrel
An old species of parrel having alternate ribs and bull's-eyes; the ribs were pieces of wood, each a...

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beast with two backs
A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello. ...

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cat-with-two-tails
an earwig. Northum. ...

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joy go with thee!
a favourable wish ; sometimes used ironically. Derb. ...

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down with the helm!
An order to put the helm a-lee. ...

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fall in with, to
To meet, when speaking of a ship; to discover, when speaking of the land. ...

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ready with the lead!
A caution when the vessel is luffed up to deaden her way, followed by "heave." ...

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run away with it!
The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...

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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...

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Swan with Two Necks Inn
1) In Great Carter Lane, opposite Dean's Court, from No.4 St. Paul's Churchyard (Lockie, 1816). Not...

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close with the land, to
To approach near to it. ...

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give way with a will
Pull heartily together. ...

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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly. ...

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run away with her anchor
Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...

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tarred with the same brush
Equivalent to "birds of a feather." ...

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walking away with the anchor
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

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staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...

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bring up with a round turn
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...

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make free with the land, to
To approach the shore closely. ...

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hook and snivey, with nix the buffer
This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of ...

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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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moor with a spring on the cable, to
See spring. ...

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At the junction of Aldgate High Street with Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street (S. 140-O.S. 1875).
Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site. There was a well called " Alegate well...

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