purser's pound

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• Pound

  ·pl of Pound. II. Pound ·noun A level stretch in a canal between locks. III. Pound ·vi To strike h...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pound

  1) A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• pound

  1) To beat. How the milling cove pounded the cull for being nuts on his blowen; how the boxer beat t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pound

  to pound, to beat or knock. Who's that pounds at the door so? Who's that knocks at the door? Glouc. ...

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

• pound

  A lagoon, or space of water, surrounded by reefs and shoals, wherein fish are kept, as at Bermuda. ...

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• Pound

  A weight. [See Weights And Measures AND Measures]• • A sum of money put in the Old Testament, (1 Ki...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• purser's pump

  A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• purser's dip

  The smallest dip-candle. ...

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• purser's grins

  Sneers. ...

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• purser's name

  An assumed one. During the war, when pressed men caught at every opportunity to desert, they adopted...

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• purser's shirt

  "Like a purser's shirt on a handspike;" a comparison for clothes fitting loosely. ...

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• purser's steward

  The official who superintended and noted down the exact quantity and species of provisions issued to...

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• purser's stocking

  A slop article, which stretched to any amount put into it. (See show a leg!.) ...

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• Assay pound

  ·add. ·- A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, ·etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but v...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Foot pound

  ·- A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pound-breach

  ·noun The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pound Yard

  East out of Little Tower Hill near the Victualling Office (Hatton, 1708), Site now covered by the Ro...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• lob's pound

  A prison. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras, explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pound-and-pint-idler

  A sobriquet applied to the purser. ...

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• half-laughs and purser's grins

  Hypocritical and satirical sneers. ...

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• penny-wise and pound foolish

  Saving in small matters, and extravagant in great. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lend us your pound here!

  A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...

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