ring-stopper

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• Stopper

  ·vt To close or secure with a stopper. II. Stopper ·noun A short piece of rope having a knot at one...

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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...

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• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Ring

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

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• gap stopper

  A whoremaster. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bitt-stopper

  One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or fi...

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• cathead-stopper

  See cat-stopper ...

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• cat-stopper

  , or cathead-stopper A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...

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• chain-stopper

  There are various kinds of stoppers for chain-cables, mostly acting by clamping or compression. ...

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• compressor-stopper

  A contrivance for holding the chain-cable by compression. ...

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• deck-stopper

  (See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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• dog-stopper

  Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger. ...

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• rigging-stopper

  See stopper of the cable. ...

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• shroud-stopper

  A stout rope-stopper made fast above and below a part of the shroud which has been damaged by an ene...

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• stopper-knot

  Single and double wall, without crowning, and the ends stopped together. ...

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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 ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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-ropes

  Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...

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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

• stopper of the anchor

  A strong rope attached to the cat-head, which, passing through the anchor-ring, is afterwards fasten...

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• stopper of the cable

  Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...

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