stern-ports

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• ports

  , or port-holes. The square apertures in the sides of a ship through which to point and fire the o...

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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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• Cinque Ports

  ·- Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; — viz., Hastings, Romn...

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• air-ports

  Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...

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• ballast-ports

  Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...

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• chase-ports

  The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...

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• close-ports

  Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...

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• entering-ports

  Ports cut down on the middle gun-deck of three-deckers, to serve as door-ways for persons going in a...

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• gun-ports

  See ports. ...

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• gunroom-ports

  In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. ...

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• half-ports

  A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...

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• out-ports

  Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...

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• quarter-ports

  Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...

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• row-ports

  Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...

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• steam-ports

  Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...

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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-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-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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• cinque ports, the

  These are five highly privileged stations, the once great emporiums of British commerce and maritime...

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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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• 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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• guardian of the cinque ports

  Otherwise lord warden (which see). ...

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