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Touch
·noun A boys' game; tag.
II. Touch ·v An emotion or affection.
III. Touch ·v A slight and brief es...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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touch
To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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touch
No touch to it, i. e. not to compare with it. A common expression in vulgar language.
The children ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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touch
In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-ti...
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Hole
·vi To go or get into a hole.
II. Hole ·adj <<Whole>>.
III. Hole ·noun To drive into a hole, as an...
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Hole
1) (la Hole)
Tenement of Alice de Mondene called "la Hole" in parish of St. Owyn, 1322 (Ct. H.W. I....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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hole
hollow, deep ; a hole-dish, a deep dish, opposed to shallow. N.
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hole
A clear open space amongst ice in the Arctic seas.
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Touch-box
·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...
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Touch-needle
·noun A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, ...
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Touch-paper
·noun Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, a...
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touch-box
The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used.
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Air hole
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
II. Air hole ·- A hole to admit o...
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Black hole
·- A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom;
— now commonly with allusio...
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Cat-hole
·noun One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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Hand-hole
·noun A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, ·etc.
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Peeping hole
·- ·see <<Peephole>>.
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Pit-hole
·noun A pit; a pockmark.
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Sight-hole
·noun A hole for looking through; a peephole.
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Teaze-hole
·noun The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.
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Cat's Hole
East out of Little Tower Hill to St. Katherine's New Court (Horwood, 1799, and Lockie, 1816).
Earli...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Gally Hole
See Gully Hole.
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Gully Hole
South from Thames Street to the river. In Bridge Ward Within, west of London Bridge (O. and M. 1677-...
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crab-hole
n.
a hole leading into a pit-likeburrow, made originally by a burrowing crayfish, and oftenafterwar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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melon-hole
n.
a kind of honey-combing of thesurface in the interior plains, dangerous to horsemen, ascribedto ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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namma hole
n.
a native well. Nammais an aboriginal word for a woman's breast.
1893. `The Australasian,' Augus...
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soak-hole
n.
an enclosed place in a streamin which sheep are washed.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queens...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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water-hole
n.
The word pond is seldomused in Australia. Any pond, natural or artificial, is calleda Water-hole...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wombat-hole
n.
hole made by Wombat (q.v.).
1891. Mrs. Cross (Ada Cambridge), `The Three Miss Kings,'p. 181:
«...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cubby-hole
A snug place for a child. Common to various English dialects.--Barnes's Dorset Glossary. Seldom hear...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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placket-hole
a pocket-hole. York. From the Scots.
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black-hole
A place of solitary confinement for soldiers, and tried in some large ships.
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eilet-hole
[Fr. œillet]. Refer to eyelet-holes.
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gammoning-hole
A mortise-opening cut through the knee of the head, between the cheeks, through which the gammoning ...
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lubber's hole
The vacant space between the head of a lower-mast and the edge of the top, so termed from timid clim...
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man-hole
The aperture, secured by a door, in the upper part of a steam-boiler, which allows a person to enter...
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mud-hole
An orifice with steam-tight doors in a marine engine, through which the deposit is removed from the ...
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nave-hole
The hole in the centre of a gun-truck for receiving the end of the axle-tree.
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sheave-hole
A channel cut in masts, yards, or timber, in which to fix a sheave, and answering the place of a blo...
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stoke-hole
A scuttle in the deck of a steamer to admit fuel for the engine. Also, the space for the men to stan...
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Touch-me-not
·noun ·see <<Impatiens>>.
II. Touch-me-not ·noun Squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>.
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touch-me-not
(Lat. impatiens noli tangere.) A plant found about brooks, and in moist places.--Michaux, Sylva. A p...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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touch-and-go
Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...
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touch-and-take
An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim.
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Churchyard Alley Hole
At the south end of Churchyard Alley adjoining the Water Works on the west side of Old London Bridge...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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stop hole abbey
The nick name of the chief rendzvous of the canting crew of beggars, gypsies, cheats, thieves, &c. &...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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water his hole
A saying used when the cable is up and down, to encourage the men to heave heartily, and raise the s...
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touch bun for luck
See bun.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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luff and touch her!
Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.)
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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Le Hole Bole, Honey Lane
A messuage, of such a sign, in the parish of All Hallows Honey Lane, in Cheap Ward. Near Blossom Inn...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Nan's Hole or Yard
In Angel Street, St. Martin's le Grand (Strype, Ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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tar-brush, touch of the
A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood.
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touch of the tar-brush
A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...
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Hole in the Wall Court
At No. 6o Fleet Street (Lockie, 1810).
Named after the public house so called.
The name is said to...
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touch up in the bunt, to
To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly.
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