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• Burton

  ·noun A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a h...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• burton

  A small tackle rove in a particular manner; it is formed by two blocks or pulleys, with a hook-block...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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

• Burton, Robert

  (1577-1640) Miscellaneous writer, b. at Lindley, Leicestershire, and ed. at Oxf., took orders, and ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• a-burton

  The situation of casks when they are stowed in the hold athwart ship, or in a line with the beam. ...

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• sail burton

  A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spanish-burn

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

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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 mackerel

  An old Cornish name for the tunny, or a scomber, larger than the horse-mackerel. ...

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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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• Burton, John Hill

  (1809-1881) Historian, was b. and ed. at Aberdeen, was in 1831 called to the Bar, but had little pr...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• top burton-tackle

  See burton. ...

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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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• Burton, Sir Richard Francis

  (1821-1890) Explorer and scholar, s. of an officer in the army, was b. at Barham House, Herts, and ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bloundelle-Burton, John Edward

  (b. 1850) Novelist. Silent Shore (1886), Desert Ship (1890), Denounced (1896), A Bitter Heritage (1...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• 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...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.