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• Stern

  ·noun The black tern. II. Stern ·vt The hinder part of anything. III. Stern ·vt Fig.: The post of ...

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• stern

  The after-part of a ship, ending in the taffarel above and the counters below. ♦ By the stern. The...

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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...

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

• 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. ♦ To round a point, is to steer clear of and go round i...

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• Pink stern

  ·- ·see <<Chebacco>>, and 1st Pink. ...

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• Stern-wheel

  ·adj Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer. ...

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• Stern-wheeler

  ·noun A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. ...

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• Torpedo stern

  ·add. ·- A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast powe...

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• Tunnel stern

  ·add. ·- A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed i...

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• pink-stern

  (French, pinque.) A vessel with a narrow stern; hence all vessels so formed are called pink-sterned....

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• chase-stern

  The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...

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• false stern

  An additional stern fixed on the main one, to increase the length and improve the appearance of a ve...

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• lute-stern

  Synonymous with pink-stern. ...

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• segmental stern

  See round stern. ...

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• stern-all

  A term amongst whalers, meaning to pull the boat stern foremost, to back off after having entered an...

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• stern-board

  This term is familiarly known to seamen as tacking by misadventure in stays; or purposely, as a seam...

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• stern-chasers

  The guns which fire directly aft. ...

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• stern-davits

  Pieces of iron or timber projecting from the stern, with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, for ...

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• stern-fast

  A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...

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• stern-frame

  That strong and ornamental union based on the stern-post, transom, and fashion-pieces. ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• stern-ladder

  Made of ropes with wooden steps, for getting in and out of the boats astern. ...

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• stern-ports

  The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...

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• stern-post

  The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder. In steam-ships, where a...

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• stern-sheets

  That part of a boat between the stern and the aftmost thwart, furnished with seats for passengers. ...

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• stern-son

  A knee-piece of oak-timber, worked on the after dead-wood; the fore-end is scarphed into the kelson,...

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• stern-walk

  The old galleries formerly used to line-of-battle ships. ...

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• stern-way

  The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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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. 2) South out of Bethlem t...

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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 shot

  The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...

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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-top

  A name which has obtained for modern tops, from the shape of the ancient ones. (See top.) ...

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• by the stern

  When the ship draws more water abaft than forward. (See by the head.) ...

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• false stern-post

  A piece bolted to the after-edge of the main stern-post to improve steerage, and protect it should t...

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• inner stern-post

  See inner post ...

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• long stern-timbers

  See stern-timbers. ...

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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). !!!!Round Hope Court in Strype. ...

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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...

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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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• make stern-way, to

  To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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• rails of the stern

  (See stern-rails.) ...

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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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• 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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