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• Port

  ·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. II. Port...

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• port

  An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent...

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• clout-nails

  Short nails with large heads for the soles of strong shoes.--Hartshorne's Shropshire. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hang-nails

  Slivers, which hang from the roots of the nails, and reach to the tips of the fingers.--Forby's Voca...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ang-nails

  corns on the feet. Cumb. ...

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• boat-nails

  Those supplied for the carpenter's use are of various lengths, generally rose-headed, square at the ...

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• clamp-nails

  Such nails as are used to fasten clamps; they are short and stout, with large heads. ...

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• clench-nails

  They are much used in boat-building, being such as can be driven without splitting the boards, and d...

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• clincher-nails

  Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c., which clinch by turning back the p...

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• clout-nails

  [Fr. clouter]. To stud with nails, as ships' bottoms and piles were before the introduction of sheet...

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• composition nails

  Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, ...

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• copper-nails

  These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• doubling-nails

  The nails commonly used in doubling. ...

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• flat-nails

  Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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• lead-nails

  Small round-headed composition nails for nailing lead. ...

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• ribbing-nails

  Similar to deck-nails, but not so fine; they have large round heads with rings, so as to prevent the...

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• scupper-nails

  Short nails with very broad flat heads, used to nail the flaps of the scuppers, so as to retain the ...

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• sheathing-nails

  These are used to fasten wood-sheathing, and prevent the filling-nails from tearing it too much. Tho...

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• spike-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• tree-nails

  Long cylindrical oak or other hard wood pins, driven through the planks and timbers of a vessel to c...

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• weight-nails

  Somewhat similar to deck-nails, but not so fine, and with square heads; for fastening cleats and the...

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• Half-port

  ·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. ...

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• Port-royalist

  ·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...

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• Three-port

  ·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...

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• Two-port

  ·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...

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• bridle-port

  A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...

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• cinque-port

  A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances. ...

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• closed port

  One interdicted. ...

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• convenient port

  A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...

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• free port

  Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery. ...

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• helm-port

  The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...

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• light-port

  A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...

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• port arms!

  The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...

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• port-bars

  Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...

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• port-charges

  , or harbour-dues. Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port. ...

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• port-fire

  A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...

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• port-flange

  In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...

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• port-glaive

  A sword-bearer. ...

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• port-last

  , or portoise. Synonymous with gunwale. ...

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• port-men

  A name in old times for the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports; the burgesses of Ipswich are also so ca...

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• port-mote

  A court held in haven towns or ports. ...

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• port-pendants

  Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...

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• port-piece

  An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets. ...

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• port-reeve

  A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times. ...

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• port-ropes

  Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended. ...

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• port-holes

  See ports ...

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• port-sale

  A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour. ...

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• port-sashes

  Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins. ...

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• port-shackles

  The rings to the ports. ...

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• port-sills

  In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...

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• port-tackles

  Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...

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• raft-port

  A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...

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• sally-port

  An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...

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• sea-port

  A haven near the sea, not situated up a river. ...

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• bag of nails

  He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack-sharp-nails

  a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb. ...

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• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• nails of sorts

  Nails used in carpentry under the denominations of 4, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, and 40 penny-nails, all of d...

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• Port-Arthur Plum

  See plum, native. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Port-Jackson Fig

  n. See fig-tree. ...

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• Port-Jackson Shark

  Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder. 1882. Rev. J....

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• Port-Jackson Thrush

  n. the best known birdamong the Australian Shrike-thrushes (q.v.), Colluricincla harmonica, Lath.; ...

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• Port-Macquarie Pine

  See pine. ...

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• port egmont fowls

  See egmont ...

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• hard-a-port!

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...

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• helm-port transom

  The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...

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• port-piece chamber

  A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...

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• bar of a port

  or bar of a harbour An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...

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• captain of the port

  The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...

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• pushing for a port

  Carrying all sail to arrive quickly. ...

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• put into port, to

  To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather. ...

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• riding a port-last

  With lower yards on the gunwales. ...

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• running-down the port

  A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...

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• odds plut and her nails

  A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

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• Port of London Authority's Warehouses

  At the northern boundary of Portsoken Ward and extending into Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directo...

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• any port in a storm

  signifies contentment with whatever may betide. ...

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• sole of a gun-port

  The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill. ...

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