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Round
·noun A circular dance.
II. Round ·adv On all sides; around.
III. Round ·vi To go round, as a guar...
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round
v. trans.
contraction of the verb to round-up, to bring a scattered herd together; used inall grazi...
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round
'To come or get round one,' in popular language, is to gain advantage over one by flattery or decept...
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round
♦ To bear round up. To go before the wind.
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Shot
·pl of Shot.
II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot.
III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun.
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his ...
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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Quarter round
·- An <<Ovolo>>.
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Round-arm
·adj Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
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Round-backed
·adj Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
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Round-shouldered
·adj Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals.
II. Round-u...
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Round Court
1) In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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round dealing
Plain, honest dealing.
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round robin
A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names ...
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round sum
A considerable sum.
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round about
An instrument used in housebreaking. This instrument has not been long in use. It will cut a round p...
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round mouth
The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart.
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round yam
n.
i.q. Burdekin Vine.See under vine.
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yam, round
n.
i.q. Burdekin Vine, under vine.
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to knock round
To go about.
I'm going to New York and Boston, and all about thar, and spend the summer until picki...
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round-rimmers
Hats with a round rim; hence, those who wear them. In the city of New York, a name applied to a larg...
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haul round
Said when the wind is gradually shifting towards any particular point of the compass. Edging round a...
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luff round
, or luff a-lee.
The extreme of the movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up ...
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round-aft
The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards.
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round dozen
A punishment term for thirteen lashes.
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round-house
A name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant ships, to square cabins built on the after-pa...
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round-ribbed
A vessel of burden with very little run, and a flattish bottom, the ribs sometimes almost joining th...
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round robbin
[from the French ruban rond]. A mode of signing names in a circular form, after a complaint or remon...
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round seam
The edges or selvedges sewed together, without lapping.
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round seizing
This is made by a series of turns, with the end passed through the riders, and made fast snugly. In ...
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round splice
One which hardly shows itself, from the neatness of the rope and the skill of the splicer. Properly ...
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round stern
The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...
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round-top
A name which has obtained for modern tops, from the shape of the ancient ones. (See top.)
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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Pot shot
·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
II. Snap shot ·add. ·- A quick offhand shot, made w...
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction toTottlep...
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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quarter-shot
See water-shot
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
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Merry-go-round
·noun Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; ·esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
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Round Hoop Court
In Whitecross Street, Cripplegate (Strype, ed. I 755-Boyle, 1799).
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shod all round
A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat-band, gloves, an...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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round-in, to
To haul in on a fall; the act of pulling upon any slack rope which passes through one or more blocks...
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round the fleet
A diabolical punishment, by which a man, lashed to a frame on a long-boat, was towed alongside of ev...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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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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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
See dispart of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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round-turn in the hawse
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...
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round up of the transoms
That segment of a circle to which they are sided, or of beams to which they are moulded.
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bring up with a round turn
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...
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