timber-hitch

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• Hitch

  ·noun A small dislocation of a bed or vein. II. Hitch ·noun The act of catching, as on a hook, ·etc...

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• hitch

  A difficulty; an impediment. All the hitches in the case of McNulty being got over, the gentlemen o...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hitch

  to move, or walk. Norf. ...

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

• hitch

  A species of knot by which one rope is connected with another, or to some object. They are various; ...

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• Timber

  ·vi To make a nest. II. Timber ·vi To light on a tree. III. Timber ·noun The crest on a coat of ar...

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• timber

  [Anglo-Saxon]. All large pieces of wood used in ship-building, as floor-timbers, cross-pieces, futto...

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• blackwall-hitch

  A sort of tackle-hook guy, made by putting the bight of a rope over the back of the hook, and there ...

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• clove-hitch

  A knot or noose by which one rope is fastened to another. (See hitch.) Two half hitches round a spar...

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• cow-hitch

  A slippery or lubberly hitch. ...

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• half-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...

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• lee-hitch

  The helmsman getting to leeward of the course. ...

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• rolling-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; ...

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• slippery-hitch

  See slip-knot ...

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• Timber Wharf

  1) See Dorset Wharf. 2) South out of Thames Street to the Thames, west of Timber Yard (Rocque, 1746...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Timber Yard

  1) See Little Somerset Street. 2) At the south end of William Street, between Wood and Co.'s Wharf ...

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• belly timber

  Food of all sorts. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• timber toe

  A man with a wooden leg. ...

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• timber-tug

  Kent. The carriage of a waggon for conveying timber, with a long perch, which may be adapted to any ...

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• knee-timber

  That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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• middle-timber

  That timber in the stern which is placed amidships. ...

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• proof timber

  In naval architecture, an imaginary timber, expressed by vertical lines in the sheer-draught, to pro...

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• seasoned timber

  Such as has been cut down, squared, and stocked for one season at least. ...

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• ship-timber

  Contraband in time of war. ...

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• tasting timber

  Chipping it with an adze, and boring it with an augur, to ascertain its quality. ...

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• timber-converter

  A dockyard official who has the charge of converting timber for its different purposes in ship-build...

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• timber-heads

  The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, ...

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• timber-taster

  One appointed to examine and pronounce upon the fitness of timber. ...

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• marline-spike hitch

  A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

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• High Timber Street

  South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 42, and extending east and west between Broken Wharf and Bro...

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• grain of timber

  In a transverse section of a tree, two different grains are seen: those running in a circular manner...

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• grain-cut timber

  That which is cut athwart the grain when the grain of the wood does not partake of the shape require...

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• rough-tree timber

  Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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• side counter-timber

  The stern timber which partakes of the shape of the top-side, and heels upon the end of the wing-tra...

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• timber and room

  , is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...

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• top-timber breadth

  The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line. ...

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• top-timber hollow

  A name sometimes given to the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top-timber. ...

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• Timber Yard, Dorset Street

  See New River Office and Yard. ...

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• Dark Lane, High Timber Street

  See Dark House Lane. ...

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• Timber Yard, Upper Thames Street

  See George Yard. ...

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