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Copper
·noun A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. II. Copper ·noun the boilers in the gall...

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Copper
Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called "Cyprian brass," occurs only in the Aut...

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copper
A copper coin, especially a British halfpenny or American cent. My friends filled my pockets with c...

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Copper
Heb. nechosheth, in the Authorized Version always rendered "brass," except in (Ezra 8:27) and Jere 1...

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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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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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Chessy copper
·- The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite....

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Copper works
·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...

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Copper-bottomed
·adj Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ...

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Copper-faced
·adj Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type. ...

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Copper-fastened
·adj Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, ·etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. ...

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Copper-nickel
·noun <<Niccolite>>. ...

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Copper-nose
·noun A red nose. ...

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Copper Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 12 to the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward (Horwood, 1799-Lock...

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copper-head
n. See under snake. ...

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copper maori
This spelling has been influenced bythe English word Copper, but it is really a corruptionof a Maori...

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bungtown-copper
The old English half-penny, or copper. So called in various parts of New England. These flowers wou...

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copper-clouts
a kind of spatterdashes worn on the small of the leg. Exm. ...

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copper, to
To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper. ...

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copper-bolts
See copper-fastened. ...

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copper-bottomed
See coppered ...

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copper-fastened
The bolts and other metal work in the bottom of ships, made of copper instead of iron, so that the v...

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copper-nails
These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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

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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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to sky a copper
To toss up a cent. Didge said he was like skying a copper--head or tail.--Crockett, Tour. ...

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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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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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