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Staggering
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Stagger>>.
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It
·pron As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
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Under
·prep Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or...
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cheese it
Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dragooning it
A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stubble it
Hold your tongue. CANT.
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to trig it
To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down.
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to rail it
To travel by rail-road.
From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to spark it
To court. Used chiefly in New England.
You were a nation sight wiser than brother Jonathan, sister ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to streak it
is to run as fast as possible.
O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel,
A' roads to her were go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fix it
A vulgarism of recent origin, but now very common. It is heard in such phrases as, 'I will not do so...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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d'rabbit it
a vulgar exclamation or abbreviation of God rabbit it, a foolish evasion of an oath. N.
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Under-age
·adj Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish...
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Under-arm
·adj Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the ...
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Under-garment
·noun A garment worn below another.
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under dubber
A turnkey.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to cut under
To undersell in price.--New York.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to knock under
A common expression to denote that one yields or submits.--Johnson.
For ten times ten, and that's a...
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knuckle-under
Obey your superior's order; give way to circumstances.
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under-bevelling
The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling.
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under-bright
A meteorological term for the strong light which sometimes appears below clouds near the horizon.
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under canvas
Synonymous with under sail.
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under-current
A stream which sets beneath the surface-water of the sea whilst that is either in a quiescent state ...
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under deck
The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks.
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under foot
Under the ship's bottom; said of an anchor which is dropped while she has head-way. An anchor is oft...
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under level
See bevelling.
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under-manned
When a ship has an insufficient complement, or is short-handed.
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under-masted
When the masts are either too small or too short, so that a ship cannot spread the sail necessary to...
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under metal
The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...
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under sail
The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails.
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under-set
Wherever the wind impels the surface-water directly upon the shore of a bay, the water below restore...
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under-skinker
Assistant to the purser's steward.
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under-tow
An under current especially noticed at the mouths of great rivers, or where tide and half-tides prev...
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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...
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hang it up
Score it up: speaking of a reckoning.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...
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pick-it-up
n.
a boys' name for the Diamondbird (q.v.).
1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in CentralAus...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple.
President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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can't come it
is a vulgar expression for cannot do it. "You can't come it over me so," i. e. you cannot effect you...
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done did it
for has done it, or performed it.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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i swamp it!
An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see.
Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in for it
Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating.
You may twitch at your collar and wrinkle you...
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say of it
taste it. S. From the French word. ESSAYER.
Sc ADDING OF PEAS, a custom in the North, of boiling th...
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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c.
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crabbing to it
Carrying an over-press of sail in a fresh gale, by which a ship crabs or drifts sideways to leeward....
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foot it in
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holdi...
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make it so
The order of a commander to confirm the time, sunrise, noon, or sunset, reported to him by the offic...
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plank it, to
To sleep on the bare decks, choosing, as the galley saying has it, the softest plank.
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stash it there!
An old order to cease or be quiet.
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half-topsails, under
Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon.
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hand-under-hand
Descending a rope by the converse of hand-over-hand ascent.
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lee-gunwale under
A colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause.
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prisoner under restraint
Suspended from duty; deprived of command.
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stand from under!
A notice given to those below to keep out of the way of anything being lowered down, or let fall fro...
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stand right under!
Jocularly, "Get out of the way."
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under bare poles
The condition of a ship under no canvas, or when the wind is too violent to allow of any sail being ...
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under-shore, to
To support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it, as a ship is shored up in dock.
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under the lee
Sheltered from the wind by some intervening object, as a ship under the lee of the land.
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under the sea
A ship lying-to in a heavy gale, and making bad weather of it.
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under the wind
So situated to leeward of something as not to feel the wind.
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old dog at it
Expert, accustomed.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to give it to one
is to rate, scold, or beat him severely.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. Used in the same sense in America.
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buckle-a-doing-it
set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKLE-TO.
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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly.
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grin and bear it
The stoical resignation to unavoidable hardship, which, being heard on board ship by Lord Byron, pro...
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run away with it!
The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...
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(St.) Faith under St. Paul's
A parish Church under the Quire of St. Paul's, at the west end of Jesus Chapel (S. 331).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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haul under the chains
This is a phrase signifying a ship's working and straining on the masts and shrouds, so as to make t...
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let go under foot
See under foot.
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lie under arms, to
To remain in a state of preparation for immediate action.
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over and under turns
Terms applied to the passing of an earing, besides its inner and outer turns.
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staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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under-run a warp, to
To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...
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under-run a hawser or warp, to
To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...
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to blot the skrip and jar it
To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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any how you can fix it
At any rate whatever.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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looking as if one could not help it
Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat
Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession.
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose