purser's stocking

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• Silk-stocking

  ·add. ·adj Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or ar...

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• blue stocking

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• anchor-stocking

  is a mode of securing and working planks in general with tapered butts. ...

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• purser's pump

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

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• 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 pound

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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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• half-laughs and purser's grins

  Hypocritical and satirical sneers. ...

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