rag-bolts

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• Rag

  ·noun A ragged edge. II. Rag ·vi To become tattered. III. Rag ·noun A sail, or any piece of canvas...

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• rag

  1) Bank notes. Money in general. The cove has no rag; the fellow has no money. 2) A farthing. TO R...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag

  to scold opprobriously ; I ragg'd him for it. North. ...

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

• Coral-rag

  ·noun ·same·as <<Corallian>>. ...

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• Shag-rag

  ·noun The unkempt and ragged part of the community. ...

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• Tag-rag

  ·noun & ·adj The lowest class of people; the rabble. ·cf. <<Rag>>, tag, and bobtail, under <<Bobtail...

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• Rag Fair

  See Royal Mint Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• rag carrier

  An ensign. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag fair

  An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag water

  Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags....

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• red rag

  The tongue. Shut your potatoe trap, and give your red rag a holiday; i.e. shut your mouth, and let y...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• barb-bolts

  Those which have their points jagged or barbed to make them hold securely, where those commonly in u...

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• beggar-bolts

  A contemptuous term for the missiles which were thrown by the galley-slaves at an approaching enemy....

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• channel-bolts

  The long bolts which pass through all the planks, and connect the channel to the side. ...

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• clenched bolts

  Those fastened by means of a ring, or an iron plate, with a rivetting hammer at the end where they p...

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• copper-bolts

  See copper-fastened. ...

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• devil-bolts

  Those with false clenches, often introduced into contract-built ships. ...

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• drift-bolts

  Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts. ...

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• eye-bolts

  Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking tackles to, or fastening ropes. ...

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• fender bolts

  See fendII ...

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• forelock-bolts

  Those with an eye, into which an iron forelock is driven to retain them in place. When secured in th...

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• hook-bolts

  Those used to secure lower-deck ports. ...

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• prise-bolts

  Knobs of iron on the cheeks of a gun-carriage to keep the handspike from slipping when prising up th...

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• pump-bolts

  Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear. ...

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• set-bolts

  Used in drifting out bolts from their position. Also employed for forcing the planks and other works...

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• throat-bolts

  Eye-bolts fixed in the lower part of tops, and the jaw-ends of gaffs, for hooking the throat-halliar...

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• pack-rag day

  Michaelmas-day, when servants change their places, and remove their clothes. Norf. and Suff. ...

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

• saucer-headed bolts

  Those with very flat heads. ...

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• tag-rag and bobtail

  An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose