ship's books

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The roll of the crew, containing every particular in relation to entry, former ships, &c.

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  • books

    Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner. ...

    Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

  • books

    (See ship's books.) Official documents. ...

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  • Ships

    Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) m...

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • Book's Rents

    In Garter Court, Barbican, at No. 3, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). "Carte...

    A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

  • devil's books

    Cards. ...

    Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

  • expense books

    Accounts of the expenditure of the warrant officer's stores, attested by the signing officers. ...

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  • rough books

    Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate entries of expenditure. ...

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  • black ships

    The name by which the English builders designate those constructed of teak in India. ...

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  • corporal, ship's

    In a ship of war was, under the master-at-arms, employed to teach the sailors the use of small arms;...

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  • demonstration-ships

    Those kept in a certain state of preparation for war, though on a peace establishment. ...

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  • drill-ships

    A recent establishment of vessels in which the volunteers composing the Royal Naval Reserve are dril...

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  • lofty ships

    Once a general name for square-rigged vessels: "A mackerel sky and mares' tails Make lofty ships...

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  • munition ships

    Those which carry the naval stores for a fleet, as distinguished from the victuallers. ...

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  • reckoning, ship's

    The ship's position resulting from the courses steered, and distances run by log, brought up from th...

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  • ship's husband

    The agent or broker who manages her accounts with regard to work performed, repairs, &c., under refi...

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  • ship's lungs

    Dr. Hall's name for the bellows with which he forced the foul air out of ships. ...

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  • ship's papers

    Documents descriptive of a vessel, her owners, cargo, destination, and other particulars necessary f...

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  • ship's steward

    The person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward. ...

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  • thwart-ships

    Across the ship, or from one side to the other. (See athwart.) ...

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  • troop-ships

    A class of vessel of excellent account, during war, in the hands of government; far preferable to hi...

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  • Chronicles, Books of

    The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e....

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  • Samuel, Books of

    The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, wh...

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  • splitting the books

    The making of a new complete-book after payment, in which the dead, run, or discharged men are omitt...

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  • Maccabees, Books Of

    Four books which bear the common title of "Maccabees" are found in some MSS. of the LXX. Two of thes...

    William Smith's Bible Dictionary

  • Samuel, Books Of

    are not separated from each other in the Hebrew MSS., and, from a critical point of view, must be re...

    William Smith's Bible Dictionary

  • classification of ships

    A register made of vessels according to the report rendered in by special surveyors. (See navy and L...

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  • east-country ships

    The same as easterlings. ...

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  • iron-plated ships

    See armour-clad. ...

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  • Kings, The Books of

    The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division...

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  • Maccabees, Books of the

    There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of indepe...

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  • crossing a ship's wake

    When a ship sails over the transient track which another has just passed, i.e. passes close astern o...

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  • filling a ship's bottom

    Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...

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  • line-of-battle ships

    Formerly those of 74 guns and upwards; or in these iron days, any vessel capable of giving and takin...

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  • ship's registry and certificate

    An official record of a ship's size, the bills of lading, ownership, &c. ...

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  • stationing a ship's company

    Arranging the crew for the ready execution of the evolutionary duties of a ship. ...

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  • verification of ship's papers

    In this necessary process it is declared that papers of themselves prove nothing, and require to be ...

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  • deaden a ship's way, to

    To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...

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  • spoliation of a ship's papers

    An act which, by the maritime law of every court in Europe, not only excludes further proof, but doe...

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  • Chronicles, First And Second Books Of

    the name originally given to the record made by the appointed historiographers in the kingdoms of Is...

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  • Kings, First And Second Books Of

    originally only one book in the Hebrew canon, from in the LXX. and the Vulgate the third and fourth ...

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  • run athwart a ship's course, to

    To cross her path. ...

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  • veer a buoy in a ship's wake, to

    To slack out a rope to which a buoy has been attached, and let it go astern, for the purpose of brin...

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