A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore.
·- imp. of Shear. II. Shore ·vt To set on shore. III. Shore ·- of <<Shear>>. IV. Shore ·noun A <<...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to prop up any thing. North. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A prop fixed under a ship's sides or bottom, to support her when laid aground or on the stocks. Shor...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·v Tenacious; retentive. II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. III. Fast ·v ...
The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A rope, cablet, or chain by which a vessel is secured to a wharf; and termed bow, head, breast, quar...
A steep coast where the water, deepening rapidly, admits the near approach of shipping without the d...
A supporting spar between the cap and the trestle-tree. ...
See ebber ...
A ship is said to be on a lee-shore, when she is near it, with the wind blowing right on to it. ...
That which lies between the shore and the ship when moored. ...
Small boats or wherries plying for hire at sea-ports. ...
Heavy cleats bolted on to the sides of vessels to support the shore-head, and sustain the ship uprig...
The same as fringing reef. ...
A low level shore. ...
The shore which lies to windward of a ship. ...
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...
See painter. ...
A rope or chain for securing a vessel by the bow. (See fast.) ...
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...
Immovable, or high and dry. ...
A ship which, in nautical parlance, "has legs." ...
Quick in going about. ...
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...
A word generally used for tying or securing ropes. To fasten. ...
See fast. ...
A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation f...
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...
Those which blow from the offing, and render bays uncomfortable and insecure. ...
To support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it, as a ship is shored up in dock. ...
An uncertain and shuffling conduct. ...
Said of a ship on shore. ...
The sea breaking along the coast. ...
To sail directly for the land. ...