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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

• harbour

  A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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• Cappadox River

  CAPPADOX RIVER[CAPPADOCIA] ...

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• river-oak

  See oak. ...

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• river driver

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

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• river-boats

  Wherries, and the like, which ply in harbours and rivers for the conveyance of passengers. ...

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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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• Harbour Lane

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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• bank-harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• harbour-dues

  See port-charges. ...

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• harbour-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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• harbour-guards

  Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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• harbour-log

  That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• harbour-reach

  The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• hidden harbour

  That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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• island harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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• shoaled-harbour

  That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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• tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• tide or tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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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

• River Of Egypt

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

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• Cole-Harbour Lane

  1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Cole Harbour Stairs

  At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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• macquarie harbour vine

  See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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• grape, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n. name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...

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• macquarie harbour grape

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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

• vine, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Grape (q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy. 1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...

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• harbour-duty men

  Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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• 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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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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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...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• thwart-marks, to a harbour

  Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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