shifting sand

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• Shifting

  ·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything. II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shift>>. III. Shifti...

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• shifting

  Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Sand

  ·noun Courage; pluck; grit. II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand. III. Sand ·noun A single particle...

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• shifting ballast

  A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ballast-shifting

  When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...

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• shifting ballast

  Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...

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• shifting-boards

  One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...

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• shifting-centre

  See meta-centre. ...

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• shifting winds

  Variable breezes, mostly light. ...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Sand-lot

  ·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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

• sand-lark

  n. name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm. 1867. W. Richa...

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• sand-stay

  n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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

• sand-flea

  (Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sand-galls

  spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• sand-streak

  See garboard-strake ...

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• quick-sand

  A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...

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• sand-bags

  Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...

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• sand-drifts

  Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c. ...

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• sand-hills

  Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....

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• sand-hopper

  A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches. ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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• sand-piper

  A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• sand-strake

  A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake. ...

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• sand-warpt

  Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood. ...

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• sand glass

  See short-time ...

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• shifting a tackle

  The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...

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• shifting the messenger

  Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...

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• rope of sand

  A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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• shifting backstays, also preventer

  Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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