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• ropes

  Upon the high ropes; elated, in high spirits, cock-a-hoop. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ropes

  guts. N. ...

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

• ropes

  A general name given to all the cordage above one inch in circumference used in rigging a ship; but ...

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• Ring

  ·noun A circular group of persons. II. Ring ·vi To rise in the air spirally. III. Ring ·vi To prac...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ring

  Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings wer...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• ring

  Money procured by begging: beggars so called it from its ringing when thrown to them. Also a circle ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring

  v. tr. 1) To cut the bark of a treeround the trunk so as to kill it. The word is common in thesame ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring

  A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, and containing four shocks. Also, the ir...

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• Ring

  The ring was regarded as an indispensable article of a Hebrew's attire, inasmuch as it contained his...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Rope's-end

  ·vt To punish with a rope's end. ...

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• high ropes

  To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• top ropes

  To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• high ropes

  'Upon the high ropes;' i. e. elated; in high spirits.--Grose, Prov. Dict. To be on the high ropes; ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• awning-ropes

  The ridge and side ropes for securing the awning. ...

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• bending ropes

  , is to join them together with a bowline knot, and then make their own ends fast upon themselves; n...

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• dead-ropes

  Those which do not run in any block. ...

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• drag-ropes

  Those used in the artillery by the men in pulling the gun backwards and forwards in practice and in ...

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• side-ropes

  See entering-ropes ...

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• entering-ropes

  , or side-ropes. Three are sometimes used to aid in climbing the ship's side. They hang from the u...

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• foot-ropes

  Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...

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• hook-ropes

  A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it...

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• port-ropes

  Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended. ...

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• ridge-ropes

  , are of various kinds. Thus the centre-rope of an awning, and those along the rigging to which it i...

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• ropes, high

  ♦ On the high ropes. To be ceremonious, upstart, invested with brief authority. ...

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• rope's end

  The termination of a fall, and should be pointed or whipped. Formerly much used for illegal punishme...

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• tiller-ropes

  The ropes which form a communication between the end of the tiller and the barrel of the wheel; they...

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• weather-ropes

  An early term for those which were tarred. ...

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• wheel-ropes

  Ropes rove through a block on each side of the deck, and led round the barrel of the steering-wheel....

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Piston ring

  ·add. ·- A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston. ...

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• Ring armature

  ·add. ·- An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring. ...

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• Ring winding

  ·add. ·- Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately ...

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• Ring-necked

  ·adj Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. ...

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• Ring-streaked

  ·adj Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats. ...

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• Ring-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...

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• Vortex ring

  ·add. ·- A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axi...

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• Whiskey, Ring

  ·add. ·- A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President ...

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• carvel's ring

  The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring-bark

  v. tr. Same meaning as Ring(1). 1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 204: «The selector in a timb...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-dollar

  n. See quotation;and see Dump and Holy Dollar. 1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. iii. p. 131: «T...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-eye

  n. one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-neck

  n. the equivalent of Jackaroo (q.v.). A term used in the back blocks in reference to thewhite colla...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-tail

  or Ring-tailed Opossum n. See pseudochirus and opossum. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fly ring

  laughing, fleering, or sneering. N. ...

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

• yold-ring

  a yello-whammer. N. ...

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

• anchor-ring

  Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...

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• base-ring

  In guns of cast-metal, the flat moulding round the breech at that part where the longitudinal surfac...

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• cornish ring

  The astragal of the muzzle or neck of a gun; it is the next ring from the mouth backwards. (Now disu...

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• muzzle-ring

  That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused. ...

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• ring-bolt

  An iron bolt with an eye at one end, wherein is fitted a circular ring. They are more particularly u...

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• ring-dogs

  Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...

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• ring-stopper

  A long piece of rope secured to an after ring-bolt, and the loop embracing the cable through the nex...

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• ring-tail

  A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of those sails which are extended by a gaff an...

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• trunnion-ring

  The ring round a cannon next before the trunnions, now disused. ...

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• to ring a peal

  To scold; chiefly applied to women. His wife rung him a fine peal! ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring the changes

  When a person receives silver in change to shift some good shillings and put bad ones in their place...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls

  To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...

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