The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work.
·vi To make a wry mouth. II. Mop ·noun A made-up face; a grimace. III. Mop ·noun A fair where serv...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A kind of annual fair in the west of England, where farmers usually hire their servants. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
a statute fair for hiring servants. Glouc. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A young whiting. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun Height; stature. II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch. III. Pitch ·noun A desce...
(Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence. It is used in a hot state with o...
The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A fair lass. II. Whiting-mop ·noun A young whiting. ...
To drink up. To empty a glass or pot. ...
·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...
·adj Black as pitch or tar. ...
·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. ...
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
·noun <<Pitchblende>>. ...
·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...
Stuck fast, confounded. ...
A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...
A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels. ...
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...
Is used for paying decks and horizontal work. ...
♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.) ...
In Duke's Court, Chick Lane, West Smithfield (Lockie, 1810 and 1816). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See chewing of oakum ...
To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.) ...
A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See otomy.-- He looked as pleasant as the p...
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...