stand from under!

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• stand right under!

  Jocularly, "Get out of the way." ...

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• From

  ·prep Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; ou...

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• Stand

  ·noun To appear in court. II. Stand ·vi Rank; post; station; standing. III. Stand ·noun To measure...

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• Under

  ·prep Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or...

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• to hail from

  A phrase probably originating with seamen or boatmen, and meaning to come from, to belong to; as, 'H...

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• Stable stand

  ·- The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow be...

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• Stand-by

  ·noun One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant us...

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• Wash stand

  ·add. ·- In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may b...

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• stand-still

  He was run to a stand-still; i.e. till he could no longer move. ...

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• to stand in

  To cost. 'This horse stands me in two hundred dollars.' ...

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• stand-point

  (Germ. stand-punkt.) Place of standing; point of view. An expression lately introduced from the Germ...

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• stand, to

  The movement by which a ship advances towards a certain object, or departs from it; as, "The enemy s...

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• stand by!

  The order to be prepared; to look out to fire when directed. To stand by a rope, is to take hold o...

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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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• to cut under

  To undersell in price.--New York. ...

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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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• Laodicea, Epistle from

  (Col. 4:16), was probably the Epistle to the Ephesians, as designed for general circulation. It woul...

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• to stand in hand

  To concern; to behoove.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. This phrase is a colloquial one in New England. Ex. '...

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• stand of arms

  A complete set for one man; now-a-days, simply a musket and bayonet. Also, an arm-stand holding the ...

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• stand square, to

  To stand or be at right angles relatively to some object. ...

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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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• staggering under it

  A ship's labouring under as much canvas as she can bear. ...

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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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• to know b from a

  bull's foot. It is a common phrase to say, "He does not know B from a bull's foot," meaning that a p...

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• removal from the list

  Dismission, or dropping an officer out of the service. ...

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• wages remitted from abroad

  When a ship on a foreign station has been commissioned twelve calendar months, every petty officer, ...

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• ease, to stand at

  To remain at rest. ...

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• fill and stand on

  A signal made after "lying by" to direct the fleet to resume their course. ...

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• stand in shore, to

  To sail directly for the land. ...

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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). A crypt of...

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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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• to stand up to the rack

  A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...

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• stand clear of the cable!

  A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...

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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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• volunteering from a merchantman into the navy

  Any seaman can leave his ship for the purpose of forthwith entering into the royal navy; and thus le...

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• fallen away from a horse load to a cart load

  A saying on one grown fat. ...

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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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