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• Captain

  ·adj Chief; superior. II. Captain ·noun A head, or chief officer. III. Captain ·noun A military le...

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• Captain

  1) Heb. sar (1 Sam. 22:2; 2 Sam. 23:19). Rendered "chief," Gen. 40:2; 41:9; rendered also "prince," ...

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• captain

  Led captain; an humble dependant in a great family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant ho...

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• captain

  I. This title is said to be derived from the eastern military magistrate katapan, meaning "over ev...

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• Captain

  As a purely military title, "captain" answers to sar in the Hebrew army and tribune in the Roman. T...

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• Staff

  ·noun The round of a ladder. II. Staff ·noun An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. III. ...

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• staff

  'To have the staff in one's own hand,' is to keep possession of one's own property, and, consequentl...

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• staff

  A light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoist and display the colours; as, the...

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• Post-captain

  ·noun A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the B...

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• Sea captain

  ·- The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. ...

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• captain lieutenant

  Meat between veal and beef, the flesh of an old calf; a military simile, drawn from the officer of t...

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• captain podd

  A celebrated master of a puppet-shew, in Ben Johnson's time, whose name became a common one to signi...

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• captain queernabs

  A shabby ill-dressed fellow. ...

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• captain sharp

  A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting ...

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• captain tom

  The leader of a mob; also the mob itself. ...

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• Captain Cook

  or Cooker n. NewZealand colonists' slang. First applied to the wild pigs ofNew Zealand, supposed t...

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• boatswain-captain

  An epithet given by certain popinjays in the service to such of their betters as fully understand th...

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• captain-general

  The highest army rank. ...

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• job captain

  One who gets a temporary appointment to a ship, whose regular commander is a member of parliament, &...

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• post-captain

  Formerly a captain of three years' standing, now simply captain, but equal to colonel in the army, b...

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• sailing captain

  An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...

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• second-captain

  Commanders under captains in the navy, of late. ...

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• Cross-staff

  ·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...

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• Rock staff

  ·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. ...

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• bauk-staff

  a quarter-staff. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• gib-staff

  1) a hook-stick, pronounced [GHIB]. York. 2) a quarter-staff. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• grain-staff

  a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S. ...

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• almacantars staff

  An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun's amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 d...

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• back-staff

  A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...

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• cross-staff

  See fore-staff. ...

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• david's-staff

  A kind of quadrant formerly used in navigation. ...

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• dwang-staff

  This is otherwise the wrain-staff (which see). ...

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• flag-staff

  In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...

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• fore-staff

  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...

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• futtock-staff

  A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...

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• jack-staff

  A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted. ...

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• jacob's staff

  , or cross-staff. A mathematical instrument to take altitudes, consisting of a brass circle, divid...

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• rule-staff

  A lath about 4 inches in breadth, used for curves in ship-building. ...

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• staff-commanders

  A designation conferred in 1863 on masters of fifteen years' seniority. ...

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• staff-officer

  On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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• whip-staff

  See whipII ...

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• wrain-staff

  A stout billet of tough wood, tapered at its ends, so as to go into the ring of the wrain-bolt, to m...

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• captain copperthorne's crew

  All officers; a saying of a company where everyone strives to rule. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Ragged Staff Alley

  In Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• regimental staff-officers

  The surgeon, adjutant, paymaster, assistant-surgeon, and quarter-master of each regiment. ...

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• captain of the fleet

  Is a temporary admiralty appointment; he is entitled to be considered as a flag-officer, and to a sh...

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• captain of the head

  Not a recognized rating, but an ordinary man appointed to attend to the swabs, and to keep the ship'...

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• captain of the hold

  The last of the captains in rank, as a first-class petty officer. ...

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• captain of the port

  The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...

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• The Bear and Ragged Staff

  A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...

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• captain of a merchant ship

  Is a certificated officer in the mercantile marine, intrusted with the entire charge of a ship, both...

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• Bear and Ragged Staff Alley

  East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720). The si...

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• captain of a ship of war

  Is the commanding officer; as well the post-captain (a title now disused) as those whose proper titl...

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• Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, West Smithfield

  See Bear Inn. ...

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