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Knee
·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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knee
Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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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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Knee jerk
·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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Knee-crooking
·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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Knee-deep
·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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Knee-high
·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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Knock-knee
·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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Thick-knee
·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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red-knee
n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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dagger-knee
A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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gammon-knee
A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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heel-knee
The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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knee-timber
That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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stem-knee
In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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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-board
This term is familiarly known to seamen as tacking by misadventure in stays; or purposely, as a seam...

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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-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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hanging standard-knee
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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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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knee of the head
A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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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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