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The Bars
These were erected at various points outside the Walls, to mark the extreme limits of the City Liber...

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Stay
·noun Hindrance; let; check. II. Stay ·vi To continue in a state. III. Stay ·vi To change tack; as...

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stay
A cuckold. ...

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stay
A large strong rope extending from the upper end of each mast towards the stem of the ship, as the s...

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Aldersgate Bars
At the north end of Aldersgate Street, marking the boundary of the City liberties in that direction....

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Holborn Bars
Across Holborn, at its western end, at Gray's Inn Lane, being the western boundary of the City (Rocq...

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Smlthfield Bars
At the north end of West Smithfield dividing the Liberty of the City from the County, on the norther...

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Whitechapel Bars
These bars marked the eastern boundary of the City's liberties outside the walls and were at the jun...

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capstan-bars
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...

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cross-bars
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor. ...

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fire-bars
The range fronting a steam-boiler. ...

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hatch-bars
To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed. ...

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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...

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bob stay
A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sand-stay
n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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to stay put
To remain in order; not to be disturbed. A vulgar expression. The levees and wharves of the First M...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
a-stay
Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...

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belly-stay
Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above. ...

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fore-stay
See stay. ...

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jib-stay
The stay on which the jib is set. ...

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short stay
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...

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stay apeek
When the cable and fore-stay form a line. (See apeek.) ...

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stay-rods
See stay-bars ...

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staysail-stay
The stay on which a staysail is set. ...

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triatic stay
A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its big...

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stay-a-while
n. a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.). ...

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cutter-stay fashion
The turning-in of a dead-eye with the end of the shroud down. ...

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inner jib-stay
A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...

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Castle Tavern, Whitechapel Bars
Mentioned in Strype's description of the bounds of Portsoken Ward, the bounds, after the Bars, cross...

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eye of a stay
That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...

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stay-tackles, fore and main
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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