thimble-eyes

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• Thimble

  ·noun Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. II. Thimble ·noun A fixed or movable ring, tube, or l...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• thimble

  A watch. The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thimble

  An iron ring with a concave outer surface to contain snugly in the cavity a rope, which is spliced a...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Lady's thimble

  ·- The <<Harebell>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• thimble berry

  The Black Raspberry, so called by many. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• thimble weed

  (Lat. Rudbeckia.) A tall plant six or eight feet high, resembling the sunflower. It is one of the he...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Nine-eyes

  ·noun The <<Lamprey>>. ...

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• eight eyes

  I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• glass eyes

  A nick name for one wearing spectacles. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

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

• bull's eyes

  n. A coarse sweetmeat mixed with flour, and streaked various colors, greedily devoured by children.-...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lashing-eyes

  Fittings for lower stays, block-strops, &c., by loops made in the ends of ropes, for a lashing to be...

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• dog-bitch-thimble

  An excellent contrivance by which the topsail-sheet-block is prevented making the half cant or turn ...

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• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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

• eyes of her

  The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In olden times, and now in Spanish and Itali...

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• knight of the thimble

  A taylor or stay-maker. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Covering of the eyes

  Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is "it (i.e., Abimelech's present of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• eyes of a messenger

  Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together. ...

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• eyes of a ship

  (See eyes of her.) ...

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• squaring the dead-eyes

  Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship. ...

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