sailors' home

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• Home

  ·adv Close; closely. II. Home ·noun ·see <<Homelyn>>. III. Home ·noun The home base; he started fo...

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• home

  The proper situation of any object, when it retains its full force of action, or when it is properly...

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• sailor's pleasure

  A rather hyperbolic phrase for a sailor's overhauling his ditty-bag at a leisure moment, and restowi...

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• turnpike-sailors

  Rascals who go about dressed as sailors pretending that they have been shipwrecked, and soliciting c...

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• Harvest-home

  ·noun The opportunity of gathering treasure. II. Harvest-home ·noun The gathering and bringing home...

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• Home-bound

  ·adj Kept at home. ...

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• Home-bred

  ·adj Not polished; rude; uncultivated. II. Home-bred ·adj Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. ...

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• Home-coming

  ·noun Return home. ...

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• Home-driven

  ·adj Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close. ...

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• Home-dwelling

  ·adj Keeping at home. ...

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• Home-felt

  ·adj Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. ...

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• Home-keeping

  ·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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• Home-speaking

  ·noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. ...

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• Home, John

  (1722-1808) Dramatist, s. of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was b., ed. there and at Edin., and ...

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• to see home

  'To see a lady home,' is to wait upon or attend her home from a party or elsewhere. The eventful da...

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• called home

  asked in the church. Sedgemoor. ...

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• blow home

  The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...

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• chock-home

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• coming-home

  Said of the anchor when it has been dropped on bad holding ground, or is dislodged from its bed by t...

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• falling home

  When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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• home-service

  The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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• home-traders

  The contradistinction of foreign-going ships. ...

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• sheet home!

  The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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• tumbling home

  The opposite of wall-sided, or flaring out. That part of a ship's side which curves inwardly above t...

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• Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  (1696-1782) Miscellaneous writer, s. of Geo. H., of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate i...

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• ram home, to

  To drive home the ammunition in a gun. ...

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• bring home the anchor, to

  is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...

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