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

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Piece
·noun A castle; a fortified building. II. Piece ·noun One of the superior men, distinguished from a...

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piece
A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl who is more or less active and skilful in the amorous co...

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piece
A little while. 'Stay a piece.' Provincial in the north of England.--Johnson. The common expression ...

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piece
applied to time : Stay a piece ; i. e. a little while. York. ...

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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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Chimney-piece
·noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. ...

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cod piece
The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

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stomach-piece
apron ...

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cart-piece
An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart. ...

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chamber-piece
See chamber ...

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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...

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dagger-piece
, or dagger-wood. A timber or plank that faces on to the poppets of the bilge-ways, and crosses th...

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dragon piece
A strut or abutment. ...

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face-piece
A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...

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fish-piece
See fish ...

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gunner's piece
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...

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hailshot-piece
A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile. ...

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head-piece
A term for the helmet. ...

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lengthening-piece
The same as short top-timber (which see). ...

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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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pad-piece
See pad ...

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jaw-piece
See rolling-chock ...

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shoe-piece
A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases inte...

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sweep-piece
A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...

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time-piece
, chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...

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vent-piece
The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns. ...

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wall-piece
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places. ...

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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-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...

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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-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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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars. ...

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piece of eight
The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar. ...

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yard-arm piece
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...

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Piece Of Gold
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...

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Piece Of Silver
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...

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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native. ...

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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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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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main-piece of the rudder
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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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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chamber of a piece of ordnance
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...

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muzzle of a piece of ordnance
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...

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