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Attendant
·noun That which accompanies; a concomitant.
II. Attendant ·noun One who owes duty or service to, o...
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Berth
·noun Convenient sea room.
II. Berth ·noun An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employme...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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berth
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The station in which a ship rides at anchor, either alone, or in a fleet; as, she lies in a goo...
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Sick
·noun <<Sickness>>.
II. Sick ·superl Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
III. Sick ·vi To fal...
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sick
a small stream, or rill. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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attendant master
A dockyard official. (See master-attendant.)
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master-attendant
An officer in the royal dockyards appointed to assist in the fitting or dismantling, removing or sec...
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bad-berth
A foul or rocky anchorage.
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berth-deck
The 'tween decks.
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foul berth
When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...
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screen-berth
Pieces of canvas temporarily hung round a berth, for warmth and privacy. (See berth.)
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Fancy-sick
·adj Love-sick.
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Guilt-sick
·adj Made sick by consciousness of guilt.
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Iron-sick
·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded;
— said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten ...
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Love-sick
·adj Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
II. Love-sick ·adj Languishing with love o...
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Sick-brained
·adj Disordered in the brain.
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Turn-sick
·adj <<Giddy>>.
II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....
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sheep-sick
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Used of pastures exhausted forcarrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,nail-sick, ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog sick
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach.
He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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car-sick
the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter ; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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iron-sick
The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...
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sick-bay
A portion of the fore-part of the main-deck, reserved for the accommodation of the sick and wounded;...
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sick-book
An account of such officers and men as are on the sick list on board, or are sent to an hospital, ho...
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sick-flag
The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...
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sick-mess
A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...
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sick-ticket
A document given to an officer, seaman, or marine, when sent to an hospital, certified by the signin...
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berth and space
In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...
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shift a berth, to
To move from one anchorage to another.
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sick as a horse
Horses are said to be extremely sick at their stomachs, from being unable to relieve themselves by v...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sick as a dog
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach.
He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sick as a horse
'I'm as sick as a horse,' is a vulgar phrase which is used when a person is exceedingly sick. As a h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.