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• Sheet

  ·vt the book itself. II. Sheet ·vt To expand, as a sheet. III. Sheet ·vt A <<Sail>>. IV. Sheet ·v...

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• sheet

  A rope or chain fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail, to extend and retain the clue d...

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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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• cable-sheet, sheet-cable

  The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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• Sheet anchor

  ·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge. II. Sheet...

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• Sheet cable

  ·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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• Sheet chain

  ·- A chain sheet cable. ...

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• deck-sheet

  That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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• flowing-sheet

  In sailing free or large, is the position of the sheets or lower clues of the principal sails when t...

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• sheet-anchor

  One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...

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• sheet-bend

  A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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• sheet-cable

  A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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• sheet-copper

  Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c. ...

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• sheet-fish

  The Silurus glanis, a large fish found in many European rivers and lakes. ...

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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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• sailors' home

  A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...

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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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• fore-sheet horse

  An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...

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• fore-sheet traveller

  An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• give her sheet

  The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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• tack or sheet

  A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...

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• topsail-sheet bitts

  Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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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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• haul aft a sheet

  To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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• sheet in the wind

  Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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• sprit-sail sheet knot

  May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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• gather aft a sheet, to

  to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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• standing part of a sheet

  That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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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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