river-boats

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• River

  ·noun One who rives or splits. II. River ·vi To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river ...

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• River

  1) Heb. aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• river

  Mr. Pickering observes that the Americans, in speaking of rivers, commonly put the name before the w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• River

  In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river i...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Cappadox River

  CAPPADOX RIVER[CAPPADOCIA] ...

  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

• river-oak

  See oak. ...

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

• river driver

  A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• barra-boats

  Vessels of the Western Isles of Scotland, carrying ten or twelve men. They are extremely sharp fore ...

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• boat's crew

  The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...

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• boat's-gripes

  Lashings for the secure stowage of boats. (See gripes.) ...

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• boom-boats

  Those stowed on the booms. ...

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• bounty-boats

  Those which fished under the encouragement of a bounty from government. ...

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• money boats

  See death ...

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• ferry-boats

  Vessels or wherries duly licensed for conveying passengers across a river or creek. ...

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• flory-boats

  A local term for boats employed in carrying passengers to and fro from steamers which cannot get alo...

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• in-boats!

  The order to hoist the boats in-board. ...

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• massoolah boats

  See masulah boats ...

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• masulah or massoolah boats

  Madras boats, of which the planks are sewed together with coir yarn, crossing the stitches over a wa...

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• out-boats

  The order to hoist out the boats. ...

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• paddy-boats

  A peculiar Ceylon boat, for the conveyance of rice and other necessaries. ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• river-lakes

  Large pools of water occupying a portion of the valleys or hollows through which the courses of rive...

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• river-risk

  A policy of insurance from the docks to the sea, at any port. ...

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• shore-boats

  Small boats or wherries plying for hire at sea-ports. ...

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• smug-boats

  Contraband traders on the coast of China; opium boats. ...

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• troop-boats

  Are built with great flatness of floor, with extreme breadth, carried well forward and aft, and poss...

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• up boats!

  The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits. ...

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• River of Egypt

  1) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). 2) In ...

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• River of Gad

  Probably the Arno (2 Sam. 24:5). ...

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• River of God

  (Ps. 65:9), as opposed to earthly streams, denoting that the divine resources are inexhaustible, or ...

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• River of Wells

  This is the name adopted by Stow as the translation of the" rivulum foncium " of the charter of Will...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cherry, herbert river

  n. a Queensland tree, Antidesma dallachyanum, Baill., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.The fruit is equal to a la...

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

• swan-river daisy

  n. a pretty annual plant, Brachycome iberidifolia, Benth., N.O. Compositae,of Western Australia. Th...

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

• benches of boats

  The seats in the after-part whereon the passengers sit; properly stern-sheets, the others are athwar...

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• paddle-box boats

  Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box. ...

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• risings of boats

  A narrow strake of board fastened withinside to support the thwarts. ...

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• River Of Egypt

  The Nile. (Genesis 15:18) [Nile]• • A desert stream on the border of Egypt, still occasionally flow...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• to row up salt river

  is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• drop down a river

  Synonymous with falling (which see). ...

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• New River Office and Yard

  Between Pigs Quay and Dorset Wharf on the Thames, at the southern end of Dorset Street (Horwood, 179...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.