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Pay
·noun Satisfaction; content. II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...

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to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...

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pay
A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...

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Away
·adv From a place; hence. II. Away ·adv Aside; off; in another direction. III. Away ·adv From a st...

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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. ...

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Pay Cerps
·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...

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Pay dirt
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock. ...

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Pay rock
·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

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Pay streak
·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...

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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...

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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...

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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...

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full pay
The stipend allowed when on actual service. ...

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growing pay
That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. ...

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pay, to
[from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...

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retired pay
A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay. ...

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sea-pay
That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship. ...

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Away-going
·adj Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; — said of cr...

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to spirit away
To kidnap, or inveigle away. ...

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to blaze away
To keep up a discharge of fire-arms. A good English phrase. The hunter (of the west) attacks the ol...

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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors. A well-known ...

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right away
Directly; immediately. ...

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away aloft
The order to the men in the rigging to start up. ...

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away off
At a distance, but in sight. ...

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away there
The call for a boat's crew; as, "away there! barge-men." ...

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bowling away
See bolling away ...

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bolling or bowling away
Going with a free wind. ...

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cast-away
Shipwrecked. ...

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ease away!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall. ...

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fire-away
Go on with your remarks. ...

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fly-away
Fictitious resemblance of land; "Dutchman's cape," &c. (See cape fly-away.) ...

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here-away
A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter. ...

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lash away
A phrase to hasten the lashing of hammocks. ...

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right away!
It is a habit of seamen answering when a sail is discovered from the mast-head; "Right away on the b...

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there away!
A phrase accompanied by pointing on a bearing, or to an object in sight. Thereabout, in that quarter...

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walk away!
The order to step out briskly with a tackle fall, as in hoisting boats. ...

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where away?
In what bearing? a question to the man at the mast-head to designate in what direction a strange sai...

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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head. ...

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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money. ...

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away she goes
The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...

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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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cape fly-away
A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.) ...

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carry away, to
To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off. It is customary...

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ease away there!
,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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edge away, to
To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...

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north-away yawl
The old term for Norway yawl (which see). ...

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pull-away-boys
A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...

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wind away, to
To steer through narrow channels. ...

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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to ...

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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...

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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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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...

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pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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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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veer away the cable, to
To slack and let it run out. ...

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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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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

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fallen away from a horse load to a cart load
A saying on one grown fat. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose