spoon-drift

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• Spoon

  ·noun Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. II. Spoon ·vi ·see <<Spoom>>. III. Spoon ·vt To take up in, or...

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• Drift

  ·noun Anything driven at random. II. Drift ·noun A driving; a violent movement. III. Drift ·noun I...

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• drift

  The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...

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• Heart-spoon

  ·noun A part of the breastbone. ...

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• Spoon-billed

  ·adj Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end. ...

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• Spoon-meat

  ·noun Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. ...

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• spoon hand

  The right hand. ...

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• wooden spoon

  (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See wranglers, optime. ...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• Star drift

  ·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...

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• drift-bolts

  Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts. ...

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• drift-ice

  The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...

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• drift-mud

  Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...

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• drift-net

  A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...

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• drift-pieces

  Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...

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• drift-sail

  A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...

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• drift-way

  Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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• heavy drift-ice

  Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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