rings

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  Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them. ...

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• housing-rings

  Ring-bolts over the lower deck-ports, through the beam-clamps, to which the muzzle-lashings of the g...

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• mooring-rings

  Iron swivel rings fixed on piers or buoys, &c., for securing vessels to. ...

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• rings, to run round

  : to beat out and out. Apicturesque bit of Australian slang. One runner runs straightto the goal, th...

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