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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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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way. II. Way ·adv <<Away>>. III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...

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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...

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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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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-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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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. ...

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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. ...

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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...

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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course. ...

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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. ...

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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. ...

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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S. ...

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gainest-way
the nearest way. N. ...

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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...

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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S. ...

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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...

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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S. ...

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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin. ...

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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...

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covert-way
See covered way. ...

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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...

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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace. ...

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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...

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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...

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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...

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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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milky way
See via lactea. ...

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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor. ...

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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...

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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective. ...

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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...

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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...

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'way up!
See way aloft! ...

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'way aloft!
or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill. ...

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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...

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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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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...

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right-of-way
n. a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...

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caper corner-way
Diagonally. ...

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fetch head-way
or stern-way. Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern. ...

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fetch way, to
Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea. ...

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gather way, to
To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm. ...

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give way together
So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated. ...

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keeping her way
The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

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lose way, to
When a ship slackens her progress in the water. ...

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lost her way
When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water. ...

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pilot's fair-way
, or pilot's water. A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed. ...

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sea-way measurer
A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse. ...

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rails of the stern
(See stern-rails.) ...

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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv ...

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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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cast the wrong way
See wrong way. ...

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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...

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give way with a will
Pull heartily together. ...

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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street. ...

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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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which way does the wind lie?
What is the matter? ...

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