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• Stern

  ·noun The black tern. II. Stern ·vt The hinder part of anything. III. Stern ·vt Fig.: The post of ...

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• stern

  The after-part of a ship, ending in the taffarel above and the counters below. ♦ By the stern. The...

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• Board

  ·noun The side of a ship. II. Board ·noun A table to put food upon. III. Board ·noun To enter, as ...

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• board

  n. term used by shearers. See quotation. 1893. `The Herald' (Melbourne), Dec. 23, p. 6, col. 1: «...

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• board

  Certain offices under the control of the executive government, where the business of any particular ...

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• board and board

  Alongside, as when two ships touch each other. ...

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• Pink stern

  ·- ·see <<Chebacco>>, and 1st Pink. ...

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• Stern-wheel

  ·adj Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer. ...

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• Stern-wheeler

  ·noun A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. ...

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• Torpedo stern

  ·add. ·- A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast powe...

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• Tunnel stern

  ·add. ·- A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed i...

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• pink-stern

  (French, pinque.) A vessel with a narrow stern; hence all vessels so formed are called pink-sterned....

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• chase-stern

  The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...

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• false stern

  An additional stern fixed on the main one, to increase the length and improve the appearance of a ve...

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• lute-stern

  Synonymous with pink-stern. ...

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• round stern

  The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...

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• segmental stern

  See round stern. ...

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• stern-all

  A term amongst whalers, meaning to pull the boat stern foremost, to back off after having entered an...

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• stern-chasers

  The guns which fire directly aft. ...

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• stern-davits

  Pieces of iron or timber projecting from the stern, with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, for ...

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• stern-fast

  A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...

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• stern-frame

  That strong and ornamental union based on the stern-post, transom, and fashion-pieces. ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• stern-ladder

  Made of ropes with wooden steps, for getting in and out of the boats astern. ...

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• stern-ports

  The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...

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• stern-post

  The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder. In steam-ships, where a...

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• stern-sheets

  That part of a boat between the stern and the aftmost thwart, furnished with seats for passengers. ...

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• stern-son

  A knee-piece of oak-timber, worked on the after dead-wood; the fore-end is scarphed into the kelson,...

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• stern-walk

  The old galleries formerly used to line-of-battle ships. ...

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• stern-way

  The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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• Plug board

  ·add. ·- A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs. ...

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• Sound-board

  ·noun A sounding-board. ...

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• Sounding-board

  ·noun ·see Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise. II. Sounding-board ·noun A thin board which propag...

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• Weather-board

  ·vt To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, ·etc. ...

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• penance board

  The pillory. ...

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• above-board

  In open sight; without artifice, or trick. "A figurative expression," says Johnson, "borrowed from g...

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• above-board

  Over the deck; a term used for open fair dealing, without artifice or trick. ...

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• arch-board

  The part of the stern over the counter, immediately under the knuckles of the stern-timbers. ...

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• back-board

  A board across the stern sheets of a boat to support the back of passengers; and also to form the bo...

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• bevelling-board

  A piece of board on which the bevellings or angles of the timbers are described. ...

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• board him

  A colloquialism for I'll ask, demand, or accost him. Hence Shakspeare makes Polonius say of Hamlet, ...

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• clap-board

  [German, klapp-bord]. An east-country commercial plank, which ought to be upwards of 13 feet in le...

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• covering-board

  See plank-sheer. ...

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• flashing-board

  To raise or set off. ...

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• foot-board

  The same as gang-board, but not so sailor-like. (See stretchers.) ...

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• free-board

  See plank-sheer. ...

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• gang-board

  The narrow platform within the side next the gunwale, connecting the quarter-deck to the forecastle....

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• in-board

  Within the ship; the opposite of out-board. ...

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• letter-board

  Another term for name-board (which see). ...

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• log-board

  Two boards shutting together like a book, and divided into several columns, in which to record, thro...

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• medical board

  A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding o...

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• name-board

  The arch-board, or part whereon the ship's name and port are painted. ...

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• navy board

  The commissioners of the navy collectively considered, but long since abolished. ...

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• on board

  Within a ship; the same as aboard. ...

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• out-board

  The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board. ...

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• pointer-board

  A simple contrivance for duly training a ship's guns. ...

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• sea-board

  The line along which the land and water meet, indicating the limit common to both. ...

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• serving-board

  A flattened piece of hard wood with a handle, for passing service on the smaller ropes. ...

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• traverse-board

  A thin circular piece of board, marked with all the points of the compass, and having eight holes bo...

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• wash-board

  , or wash-strake. A movable upper strake which is attached by stud-pins on the gunwales of boats t...

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• weather-board

  That side of the ship which is to windward. ...

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• within-board

  Inside a ship. ...

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• by the stern

  When the ship draws more water abaft than forward. (See by the head.) ...

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• false stern-post

  A piece bolted to the after-edge of the main stern-post to improve steerage, and protect it should t...

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• inner stern-post

  See inner post ...

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• long stern-timbers

  See stern-timbers. ...

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• board of trade

  A committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of commercial matters. ...

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• by the board

  Over the ship's side. When a mast is carried away near the deck it is said to go by the board. ...

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• local marine-board

  See marine boards. ...

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• make stern-way, to

  To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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• rails of the stern

  (See stern-rails.) ...

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• Metropolitan Asylums' Board Offices

  On the north side of Victoria Embankment, in Farringdon Ward Without. See Saxton's Still House. ...

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• make a good board

  See board. ...

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• board him in the smoke

  To take a person by surprise, as by firing a broadside, and boarding in the smoke. ...

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• take water on board, to

  To ship a sea. ...

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