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• ropes

  Upon the high ropes; elated, in high spirits, cock-a-hoop. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ropes

  guts. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• ropes

  A general name given to all the cordage above one inch in circumference used in rigging a ship; but ...

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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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• Rope's-end

  ·vt To punish with a rope's end. ...

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• high ropes

  To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. ...

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• top ropes

  To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly. ...

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• high ropes

  'Upon the high ropes;' i. e. elated; in high spirits.--Grose, Prov. Dict. To be on the high ropes; ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• awning-ropes

  The ridge and side ropes for securing the awning. ...

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• bending ropes

  , is to join them together with a bowline knot, and then make their own ends fast upon themselves; n...

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• dead-ropes

  Those which do not run in any block. ...

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• drag-ropes

  Those used in the artillery by the men in pulling the gun backwards and forwards in practice and in ...

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• side-ropes

  See entering-ropes ...

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• entering-ropes

  , or side-ropes. Three are sometimes used to aid in climbing the ship's side. They hang from the u...

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• foot-ropes

  Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...

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• hook-ropes

  A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it...

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• ridge-ropes

  , are of various kinds. Thus the centre-rope of an awning, and those along the rigging to which it i...

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• ring-ropes

  Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...

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• ropes, high

  ♦ On the high ropes. To be ceremonious, upstart, invested with brief authority. ...

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• rope's end

  The termination of a fall, and should be pointed or whipped. Formerly much used for illegal punishme...

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• tiller-ropes

  The ropes which form a communication between the end of the tiller and the barrel of the wheel; they...

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• weather-ropes

  An early term for those which were tarred. ...

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• wheel-ropes

  Ropes rove through a block on each side of the deck, and led round the barrel of the steering-wheel....

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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-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-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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• 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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• marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls

  To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...

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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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