through-pieces

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• Through

  ·prep By means of; by the agency of. II. Through ·adv From beginning to end; as, to read a letter t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pieces

  (1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes "fragments," and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• through all

  Carrying canvas in heavy squalls without starting a stitch. It demands not only courage, but seamanl...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• through fastenings

  Applied to bolts and tree-nails driven through both the timber and plank of the sides. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• aris pieces

  Those parts of a made mast which are under the hoops. ...

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• bilge-pieces

  Synonymous with bilge-keels. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bow-pieces

  The ordnance in the bows; also in building. ...

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• drift-pieces

  Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fashion-pieces

  The fashion of the after-part of a ship, in the plane of projection. They are the hindmost timbers i...

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• field-pieces

  Light guns proper to be taken into field operations; one or more of them is now carried by all ships...

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• hawse-pieces

  The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...

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• keel-pieces

  The parts of the keel which are of large timber. ...

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• quarter-pieces

  Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...

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• shelf-pieces

  Strakes of plank running internally in a line with the decks, for the purpose of receiving the ends ...

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• side-pieces

  Parts of a made mast. ...

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• skewer-pieces

  When the salt meat is cut up on board ship by the petty officers, the captain and lieutenants are pe...

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• snake-pieces

  See pointers. ...

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• term-pieces, or terms

  Pieces of carved work on each side of the taffrail upon the side stern-timber, and extending down as...

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• truss-pieces

  The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing. ...

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• blow-through valve

  A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...

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• heaving through all

  The surging or slipping of the cable when the nippers do not hold. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• through the fleet

  A seaman's being sentenced by court-martial to be towed by a boat from every ship through the fleet,...

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• to go through the mill

  A metaphor alluding to grain which has been through the mill. A Western editor observed that the mai...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• going through the fleet

  A cruel punishment, long happily abolished. The victim was sentenced to receive a certain portion of...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sh-t-ng through the teeth

  Vomiting. Hark ye, friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te through your teeth? V...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose