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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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Helm
·noun ·see <<Haulm>>, straw. II. Helm ·noun A <<Helve>>. III. Helm ·noun A <<Helmet>>. IV. Helm ·...

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helm
1) a hovel. N. 2) stubble gathered after the corn is housed ; also pease straw. S. ...

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helm
Properly is the tiller, but sometimes used to express the rudder, and the means used for turning it,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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small stuff
The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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helm-port
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...

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helm-wind
A singular meteorological phenomenon which occurs in the north of England. Besides special places in...

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slack helm
If the ship is too much by the stern, she will carry her helm too much a-lee. ...

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taut helm
, or taut weather-helm. A ship with a side wind is said to carry a taut weather-helm, when the wat...

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weather-helm
A ship is said to carry a weather-helm when she is inclined to gripe, or come too near the wind, and...

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pomegranate, small native
n. another name forthe Native Orange. See orange. ...

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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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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb. ...

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answers her helm
When a ship obeys the rudder or steers. ...

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ease the helm!
An order often given in a vessel close-hauled, to put the helm down a few spokes in a head sea, with...

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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...

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right the helm!
The order to put it amidships, that is, in a line with the keel. ...

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shift the helm!
The order for an alteration of its position, by moving it towards the opposite side of the ship; tha...

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starboard the helm!
So place the helm that the rudder is brought on the port side of the stern-post. (See hard-a-starboa...

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taut weather-helm
See taut helm ...

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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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Helm on ye Hoope
Tenement of Thomas de Lillyngston so called in parish of St. Peter de Cornhull, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 3...

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down with the helm!
An order to put the helm a-lee. ...

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feel the helm, to
To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of...

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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...

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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...

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