small stuff

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• Stuff

  ·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion. II. Stuff ·vt Paper stock ground ready for use. III. Stuff ·n...

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• stuff

  A coat of stuff, a term used for any composition laid on to ships' spars, bottom, &c. Also, square t...

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• Small

  ·vt To make little or less. II. Small ·adv Not loudly; faintly; timidly. III. Small ·noun <<Smallc...

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• small

  The narrow part of the tail of a whale, in front of the flukes. Also, that part of the anchor-shank ...

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• Split stuff

  ·add. ·- Timber sawn into lengths and then split. ...

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• burnt-stuff

  n. a geological term used by miners.See quotation. 1853. Mrs. Chas. Clancy, `Lady's Visit to Gold ...

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

• split-stuff

  n. timber sawn into lengths andthen split. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. ...

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

• bread-stuff

  Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering. This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• housen-stuff

  Household furniture. On the first day of May, at 1w o'clock, if the tenant isn't out, an officer go...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• diminishing stuff

  In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...

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• dungaree-stuff

  A blue or striped cotton cloth much worn by the seafaring classes in India. ...

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• thick stuff

  Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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• Small Alley

  South out of Great Eastcheap. In Candlewick Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755). Used for stables in Stryp...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• to sing small

  To be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's-self. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• small clothes

  Breeches: a gird at the affected delicacy of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat, a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• small fry

  Young children; persons of little importance. Let there be any question to be decided, which Gen. J...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• small potatoes

  An epithet applied to persons, and signifying mean, contemptible; as, 'He is very small potatoes.' S...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sing small

  To make a bullying boaster sing small, by lowering his arrogance. ...

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• small-arms

  The muskets, pistols, cutlasses, tomahawks, and boarding-pikes, in charge of the gunner, on board sh...

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• small-helm

  One of the principal results of sound seamanship is the proper trim of the vessel and the sail carri...

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• small sails

  Top-gallant-studding-sails and the kites. ...

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• line out stuff

  To mark timber for dressing to shape. ...

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• pomegranate, small native

  n. another name forthe Native Orange. See orange. ...

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

• small-arm men

  Those of the crew selected and trained to the use of small-arms. When they have effected their board...

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• steer small, to

  To steer well and within small compass, not dragging the tiller over from side to side. ...

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• barrel of small arms

  The tube through which the bullets are discharged. In artillery the term belongs to the construction...

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• great guns and small-arms

  The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...

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• blowing great guns and small arms

  Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose