thick stuff

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• Stuff

  ·vt A medicine or mixture; a potion. II. Stuff ·vt Paper stock ground ready for use. III. Stuff ·n...

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• stuff

  A coat of stuff, a term used for any composition laid on to ships' spars, bottom, &c. Also, square t...

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• Thick

  ·adv Frequently; fast; quick. II. Thick ·noun A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. III. Thick ·superl Dee...

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• thick

  Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thick

  1) Intimate; familiar. 'They are very thick just now.' Provincial in the North of England, and in Yo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• thick

  intimate, frequent, plentiful. Also stupid. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Split stuff

  ·add. ·- Timber sawn into lengths and then split. ...

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• burnt-stuff

  n. a geological term used by miners.See quotation. 1853. Mrs. Chas. Clancy, `Lady's Visit to Gold ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• split-stuff

  n. timber sawn into lengths andthen split. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bread-stuff

  Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering. This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• housen-stuff

  Household furniture. On the first day of May, at 1w o'clock, if the tenant isn't out, an officer go...

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• diminishing stuff

  In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...

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• dungaree-stuff

  A blue or striped cotton cloth much worn by the seafaring classes in India. ...

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• small stuff

  The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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• Thick wind

  ·- A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the sign...

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• Thick-headed

  ·adj Having a thick skull; stupid. ...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• Thick-skinned

  ·adj Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. ...

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• Thick-skulled

  ·adj Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. ...

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• Thick-winded

  ·adj Affected with thick wind. ...

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• Thick clay

  (Hab. 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "pledges." The Chaldean power is here repres...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• line out stuff

  To mark timber for dressing to shape. ...

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• thick and thin block

  , or fiddle-block. A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...

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• thick-and-dry for weighing!

  To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground. ...

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