rope's end

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• Rope's-end

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

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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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• End

  ·vt To <<Destroy>>; to put to death. II. End ·noun One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brusse...

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• End-

  ·- A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean. ...

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• End

  In Heb. 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word ekbasin, meaning "outcome", i.e., death. It...

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• end for end

  Reversing cordage, casks, logs, spars, &c. To shift a rope end for end, as in a tackle, the fall i...

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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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• 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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• ropes, high

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

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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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• By-end

  ·noun Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. ...

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• End-all

  ·noun Complete termination. ...

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• Week-end

  ·add. ·noun The end of the week; specif., though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday,...

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• fiddlestick's end

  Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fore-end

  the beginning of a week, month, or year. North. ...

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

• gable-end

  of a building, the end wall. General. See Baxter's Glossary, p. 1. ...

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

• pugging-end

  (of a house) the gable end. Devonsh. ...

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

• tacking-end

  shoemaker's end. ...

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

• t'on-end

  upright. It mult be set a t'on end. My wife keeps a t'on end yet : i. e. she is not brought to bed y...

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

• after-end

  The stern of a ship, or anything in her which has that end towards the stern. ...

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• an-end

  The position of any spar when erected perpendicularly to the deck. The top-masts are said to be an-e...

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• bitter-end

  That part of the cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board when the ship rides at a...

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• butt-end

  The shoulder part of a fire-lock. ...

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• end-on

  Said particularly of a ship when only her bows and head-sails are to be seen, but generally used in ...

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• fag-end

  Is the end of any rope. This term is also applied to the end of a rope when it has become untwisted....

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• on end

  The same as an-end (which see). Top-masts and topgallant-masts are on end, when they are in their pl...

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• well-end

  See pump-foot. ...

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• Pope Lane End

  According to Stow the parish church of saint Anne in the willowes lay on the north side of this lane...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• dead-on-end

  The wind blowing directly adverse to the vessel's intended course. ...

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• right on end

  In a continuous line; as the masts should be. ...

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• end of a trench

  The place where the trenches are opened. ...

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• every rope an-end

  The order to coil down the running rigging, or braces and bowlines, after tacking, or other evolutio...

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• 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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• little end of the horn

  'To come out at the little end of the horn,' is said when a ridiculously small effect has been produ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Left by Thomas Hinde, 1635, to the parson and churchwardens of the parish (End. Ch. St. Peter, 1903, p. 2).

  No later mention. Named after an owner or builder. ...

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