peak purchase

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• Peak

  ·noun The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. II. Peak ·vi To <<Pry>>; to peep slyly. III. Pea...

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• peak

  Any kind of lace. ...

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• to peak

  To peep; to pry into. It is quite common in the popular language of New England to hear this word, w...

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• peak

  The more or less conical summit of a mountain whether isolated or forming part of a chain. Also, the...

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• Purchase

  ·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...

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• purchase

  Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in...

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• after-peak

  The contracted part of a vessel's hold, which lies in the run, or aftermost portion of the hold, in ...

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• fore-peak

  The contracted part of a vessel's hold, close to the bow; close forward under the lower deck. ...

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• peak, to

  To raise a gaff or lateen yard more obliquely to the mast. To stay peak, or ride a short stay peak, ...

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• peak halliards

  The ropes or tackles by which the outer end of a gaff is hoisted, as opposed to the throat-halliards...

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• Hire purchase

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• Year's purchase

  ·add. ·- The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; — used in expressing the valu...

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• cant-purchase

  This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...

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• hydraulic purchase

  A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...

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• kent-purchase

  A misspelling of cant-purchase, or one used to turn a whale round during the operation of flensing. ...

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• purchase-blocks

  All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...

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• purchase-falls

  The rope rove through purchase-blocks. ...

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• runner-purchase

  The addition of a tackle to a single rope, then termed a pendant, passing through a block applied to...

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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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• Hire purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• gun-tackle purchase

  A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...

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• raising a purchase

  The act of disposing certain machines, so that, by their mutual effects, they may produce sufficient...

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• peak of an anchor

  The bill or extremity of the palm, which, as seamen by custom drop the k, is pronounced pea; it is t...

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• Hire and purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...

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• purchase a commission, to

  A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...

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