spanish mackerel

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• Mackerel

  ·noun A pimp; also, a bawd. II. Mackerel ·noun Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several rel...

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• mackerel

  A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel- backed; long-backed. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mackerel

  n. In Australia, Scomberantarcticus, Castln., said to be identical with Scomberpneumatophorus, De l...

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

• mackerel

  The Scomber vulgaris, a well-known sea-fish. ...

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• Spanish

  ·noun The language of Spain. II. Spanish ·adj Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. ...

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• spanish

  1) or An ass when braying. 2) The spanish; ready money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• horse-mackerel

  n. The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...

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

• bastard-mackerel

  , or horse-mackerel The Caranx trachurus, a dry, coarse, and unwholesome fish, of the family Scomb...

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• horse-mackerel

  A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...

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• mackerel-boat

  A stout clinch-worked vessel, with a large fore-sail, sprit-sail, and mizen. ...

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• mackerel-sky

  See cirro-cumulus. ...

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• mackerel-sture

  A northern name for the tunny, Scomber thynnus. ...

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• stoer-mackerel

  A name for the young tunny-fish. ...

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• Black Spanish

  ·add. ·- One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumag...

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• spanish coin

  Fair words and compliments. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spanish faggot

  The sun. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spanish gout

  The pox. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spanish padlock

  A kind of girdle contrived by jealous husbands of that nation, to secure the chastity of their wives...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spanish worm

  A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing. ...

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• spanish-burn

  A specious method of hiding defects in timber, by chopping it in pieces. ...

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• spanish-burton

  The single is rove with three single blocks, or two single blocks and a hook in the bight of one of ...

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• spanish disturbance

  An epithet given to the sudden armament on the Nootka Sound affair, in 1797, an epoch from which man...

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• spanish reef

  The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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• spanish windlass

  A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is...

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• Spanish Ambassador's House

  In Middlesex Street in James I.'s time. Demolished 1844. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• walk spanish, to

  To quit duty without leave; to desert. ...

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• Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks

  On the south side of Bevis Marks and west side of Heneage Lane (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward. F...

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