riding-bitts

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• Riding

  ·noun A festival procession. II. Riding ·noun ·same·as <<Ride>>, ·noun, 3. III. Riding ·noun The a...

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• Bitts

  ·noun ·pl A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which t...

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• bitts

  A frame composed of two strong pieces of straight oak timber, fixed upright in the fore-part of a sh...

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• goose riding

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• riding skimmington

  A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule of a man beaten by his wife. It consists of a man riding behind a...

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• stock-riding

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• fence-riding

  Sitting on the fence, i. e. keeping neutral in politics. The South will not vote for a Northern can...

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• riding-down

  The act of the men who throw their weight on the head of a sail to stretch it. Also, of the man who ...

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• bowsprit-bitts

  Are strong upright timbers secured to the beams below the deck; they have a cross-piece bolted to th...

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• cable-bitts

  See bitts. ...

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• carrick-bitts

  The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-b...

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• jeer-bitts

  Those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. ...

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• winch-bitts

  The supports near their ends. ...

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• windlass-bitts

  See carrick-bitts. ...

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• riding st. george

  The woman uppermost in the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is said to be...

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• topsail-sheet bitts

  Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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• riding a port-last

  With lower yards on the gunwales. ...

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• spurs of the bitts

  The same as standards (which see). ...

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