rough-spars

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• Rough

  ·noun Produced offhand. II. Rough ·noun Boisterous weather. III. Rough ·adv In a rough manner; rud...

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• rough

  To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the b...

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• rough

  or Roughy, or Ruffy,or Ruffie n. a Victorian fish, Arripisgeorgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Percid...

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

• monkey-spars

  Reduced masts and yards for a vessel devoted to the instruction and exercise of boys. ...

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• Rough-footed

  ·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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• Rough-grained

  ·adj Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not poli...

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• Rough-legged

  ·adj Having the legs covered with feathers; — said of a bird. ...

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• rough music

  Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and...

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• rough fig

  n. See under fig-tree. ...

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• rough books

  Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate entries of expenditure. ...

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• rough nauts

  See rough-knots ...

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• rough-knots

  , or rough nauts. Unsophisticated seamen. ...

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• rough music

  Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but...

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• rough-tree

  An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to any mast, or other spar above the ship's ...

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• rough-leaved fig

  n. See under fig-tree. ...

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• rough-tree timber

  Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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