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Stay
·noun Hindrance; let; check.
II. Stay ·vi To continue in a state.
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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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Main
·adj Vast; huge.
II. Main ·noun A main-hamper.
III. Main ·adj Important; necessary.
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main
very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C.
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main
A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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fore
fŏre, inf., irregular, from the obsolete fuo, and equivalent to futurum esse; and fŏrem, fores, fore...
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fore
fore, forem see sum.
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Fore
·adv Formerly; previously; afore.
II. Fore ·adv In or towards the bows of a ship.
III. Fore ·vi Jo...
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fore
The distinguishing character of all that part of a ship's frame and machinery which lies near the st...
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heel-tackles
The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them....
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long-tackles
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
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reef-tackles
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...
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relieving tackles
Those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller, in order to steer by in bad weather or in action,...
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rolling-tackles
Used to prevent the yards from swaying to and fro under heavy rolling motion.
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rudder-tackles
Attached to the rudder-pendants.
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yard-tackles
Tackles attached to the fore and main yards of a ship, whereby, with the assistance of the stay-tack...
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haul aboard the fore and main tacks
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side.
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fore-and-aft sails
Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...
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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.
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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...
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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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jib-stay
The stay on which the jib is set.
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short stay
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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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stay-bars
, or stay-rods.
Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....
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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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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
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Main yard
·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
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Main-gauche
·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right;
— used to parry thru...
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Main-hamper
·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
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Main-sail
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...
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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army.
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main-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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main-brace
A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind.
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main-breadth
The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...
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main-capstan
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan.
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main-course
The main-sail.
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main-guard
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place.
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main-hold
That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch.
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main-ice
A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...
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main-jeers
Jeers for swaying up the main-yard.
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main-keel
The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson.
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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...
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main-post
The stern-post, as distinguished from the false-post and inner-post.
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main-sail
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...
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main-shaft
The principal shaft in machinery.
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main-spring
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
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main-staysail
A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts.
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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main-transom
A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see).
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main-wales
The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...
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Fore part
·noun ·Alt. of <<Forepart>>.
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Fore teeth
·pl of Fore tooth.
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Fore tooth
·- One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an <<Incisor>>.
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Fore-night
·noun The evening between twilight and bedtime.
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Fore-topgallant
·adj Designating the mast, sail, yard, ·etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. ·see ...
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Fore-topmast
·noun The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgall...
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Fore-topsail
·noun ·see <<Sail>>.
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Fore Court
1) At Bridewell, Fleet Ditch (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Fore Street
East out of Redcross Street at No. 34 to No. 9 Finsbury Pavement (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street...
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fore-end
the beginning of a week, month, or year. North.
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fore-think
to be sorry for ; to repent. North.
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fore-bay
A rising at a lock-gate flooring. Also, the galley or the sick-bay.
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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead.
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fore-bowline
The bowline of the fore-sail.
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fore-braces
Ropes applied to the fore yard-arms to change the position of the fore-sail occasionally.
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fore-cockpit
See cockpit.
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fore-course
The fore-sail (which see).
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fore-deck
That part from the fore-mast to the bows.
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fore-finger
, or index-finger.
The pointing finger, which was called shoot-finger by the Anglo-Saxons, from it...
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fore-foot
The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and ...
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fore-goer
The same as fore-ganger.
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fore-gripe
See gripe.
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fore-guy
A rope to the swinging-boom of the lower studding-sail.
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fore-hammer
The sledge-hammer which strikes the iron on the anvil first, if it be heavy work, but the hand-hamme...
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fore-hold
The part of the hold before the fore hatchway.
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fore-hoods
The foremost of the outside and inside planks of a vessel.
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fore-hooks
The same as breast-hooks (which see).
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fore-lightroom
See light-room.
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fore-magazine
See magazine.
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fore-mast
The forward lower-mast in all vessels. (See mast.)
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fore-ness
An old term for a promontory.
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fore-peak
The contracted part of a vessel's hold, close to the bow; close forward under the lower deck.
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fore-rake
That part of the hull which rakes beyond the fore-end of the keel.
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fore-sail
The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.)
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fore-ship
An archaic form of forecastle of a ship; it means the fore-part of a vessel.
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fore-shrouds
See shrouds.
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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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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle.
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fore-tack
Weather tack of the fore-sail hauled to the fore-boomkin when on a wind.
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fore-tackle
A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...
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fore-thwart
The seat of the bowman in a boat.
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fore-yard
(See yard.)
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down-haul tackles
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
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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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coup de main
A sudden and vigorous attack.
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main royal-mast
That above the main topgallant-mast.
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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking.
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main-tack block
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to.
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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main-top bowline
The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...
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main-topsail haul!
The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set.
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main-yard men
Those in the doctor's list.
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square main-sail
See main-sail.
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Fore Old Jewry
By Aldgate (W. Stow, 1722, and Rev. of London, 1728).
See Jewry Street.
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Fore Street Avenue
North out of Fore Street at No. 72 (P.O. Directory), with a branch West to Moor Lane and east to Moo...
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fore cat-harpings
See cat-harpings.
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fore-man afloat
The dockyard officer in charge of the shipwrights working on board a ship not in dock.
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fore-mast man
From "before the mast." A private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship.
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fore-reach, to
To shoot ahead, or go past another vessel, especially when going in stays: to sail faster, reach bey...
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fore-sheet horse
An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...
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fore-sheet traveller
An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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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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fill the main-yard
An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...
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splice the main brace
In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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The Sailor's Word-Book