Those planks of the pine or fir above 7 inches wide and 6 feet long: under that length they are known as deal-ends.
·noun The sheth of a plow. II. Standard ·noun A large drinking cup. III. Standard ·adj Not of the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
There were several" Standards "in the City used for the supply of water with conduits or cisterns in...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Formerly, in ship-building, was an inverted knee, placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, and ha...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes u...
·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...
See standard. ...
See deck standard-knees. ...
At the east end of Cornhill, where the four streets met, in the middle of the street (S. 189). It s...
In the middle of Cheapside, nearly opposite the south end of Honey Lane, east of Bread Street (Leake...
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...
Opposite the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 110, 394). First mention: " The...
A term used to deride the idea of any work, however light, being relaxation; just as giving up takin...
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate. ...