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• Runner

  ·noun Any cursorial bird. II. Runner ·noun A <<Smuggler>>. III. Runner ·noun A <<Detective>>. IV....

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• Purchase

  ·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...

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• purchase

  Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in...

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• Scratch runner

  ·add. ·- One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability. ...

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• log-runner

  n. an Australian bird, called alsoa Spinetail. The species are – – Black-headed – – Orthonyx spaldi...

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• tree-runner

  n. another name for the Sittella (q.v.). The species are – – Black-capped Tree-Runner – – Sittella ...

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• Hire purchase

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• Year's purchase

  ·add. ·- The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; — used in expressing the valu...

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• cant-purchase

  This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...

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• hydraulic purchase

  A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...

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• kent-purchase

  A misspelling of cant-purchase, or one used to turn a whale round during the operation of flensing. ...

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• peak purchase

  A purchase fitted in cutters to the standing peak-halliards to sway it up taut. ...

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• purchase-blocks

  All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...

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• purchase-falls

  The rope rove through purchase-blocks. ...

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• native scarlet-runner

  n. See kennedya. ...

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• Hire purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• gun-tackle purchase

  A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...

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• raising a purchase

  The act of disposing certain machines, so that, by their mutual effects, they may produce sufficient...

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• Hire and purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...

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• purchase a commission, to

  A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...

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