A caulker's largest mallet.
A term used by caulkers for opening the seams of the plank with reeming-irons, that the oakum may be...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt To beat with a heavy mallet. II. Beetle ·vt A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavement...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A shipwright's heavy mallet for driving the wedges called reeming irons, so as to open the seams in ...
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
The larger iron used by caulkers in opening the seams. ...
·add. ·- A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia. ...
·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...
·- An overhanging brow. ...
·- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. ...
·adj Dull; stupid. ...
·- ·see <<Elater>>. ...
·- A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has...
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...
·- Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles. ...
·add. ·- A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, ...
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...
One having thick projecting eyebrows. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Dull, stupid. ...
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
A heavy mallet. There is an old proverb: "A Dover court; all speakers and no hearers." "A Dover co...