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bend, to
To fasten one rope to another, or to an anchor. The term is also applied to any sudden or remarkable...
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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...
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Try
·noun A screen, or sieve, for grain.
II. Try ·vt Refined; select; excellent; choice.
III. Try ·nou...
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to try
To purify; to refine.--Johnson. Webster. A common use of this word in the United States, and the onl...
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Bend
·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind.
II. Bend ·noun A <<Band>>.
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bend
1) a border of a woman's cap. N.; perhaps from BAND.
2) see ben
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bend
The chock of the bowsprit.
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try down, to
To boil out the oil from blubber at sea in whalers.
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try, to, or lie-to, in a gale
, is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...
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for
for, fātus, 1, v. defect. (the forms in use are fatur, fantur, fabor, fabitur; part. perf. fatus; pe...
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for
(for) fātus, fārī, defect.(in use are fātur, fantur, fābor, fābitur; P. perf. fātus; perf.fātus sum...
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For
·prep Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
II. For ·...
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For-
·- A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also los...
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Back
·noun A ferryboat. ·see <<Bac>>, 1.
II. Back ·adv (Of time) In times past; ago.
III. Back ·noun Th...
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back
is often used for ago; as in the phrase, "a little while back," i. e. "a short time ago."
Behind th...
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back
♦ To back an anchor. To carry a small anchor ahead of the one by which the ship rides, to partake of...
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do for, to
A double-barrelled expression, meaning alike to take care of or provide for an individual, or to rui...
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fall back, to
To recede from any position previously occupied.
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put back, to
To return to port generally the last left.
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Try cock
·add. ·- A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.
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Try-square
·noun An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, ·etc., for laying off right angles off right angles...
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try on
To endeavour. To live by thieving. Coves who try it on; professed thieves.
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try-works
Large copper boilers, for boiling the blubber in whalers.
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yarra-bend
n.
equivalent to the English word Bedlam. The first lunatic asylum of the colony ofVictoria stood n...
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bend-kitt
a kind of great can with a cover. N.
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bend-mould
A mould made to form the futtocks in the square body, assisted by the rising-square and floor-hollow...
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bend-roll
A rest formerly used for a heavy musket.
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bowline-bend
The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...
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carrick-bend
A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then pass...
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fisherman's bend
A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots. Its main use is for bending studding-halliards ...
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granny's bend
The slippery hitch made by a lubber.
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sheet-bend
A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...
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slip-bend
When a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or overboard.
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ladle, for a gun
An instrument for charging with loose powder; formed of a cylindrical sheet of copper-tube fitted to...
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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly.
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back, of a ship
The keel and kelson are figuratively thus termed.
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A
A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, correspond...
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a
a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
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A
A. a. as an abbreviation, 1 for the praenomen Aulus.
2 for Absolvo, on the voting-tablet of a jud...
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A
·- Of.
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·- A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior...
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·- A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on ...
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A
Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text...
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a
As for example the word alarm, alarum, a bell, from the German lärm; but the military alarm on a dru...
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Uncalled-for
·adj Not called for; not required or needed; improper; gratuitous; wanton.
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Unhoped-for
·adj Unhoped; unexpected.
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Unlooked-for
·adj Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.
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to go for
To be in favor of. Thus, 'I go for peace with Mexico,' means I am in favor of peace with Mexico, or,...
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done for
Cheated; taken advantage of.
Wall street, it appears, is infested with mock-auction shops,--a count...
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limb-for
a man addicted to any thing is called "a limb for it." Norf. and Suff.
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for-by
Near to; adjacent.
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Back door
·- A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...
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Back stairs
·- Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or i...
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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
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Diamond-back
·noun The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
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Hog's-back
·noun A <<Hogback>>.
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Warty-back
·add. ·noun An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons...
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Water back
·- ·see under 1st Back.
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Watteau back
·add. ·- The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck ...
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Back Alley
See Little Bell Alley, Copthall Buildings.
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Back Court
North out of Cloth Fair at No.21 and east, parallel to and between Long Lane and Cloth Fair (P.O. Di...
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Back Yard
1) Out of Pelican Court, Little Britain (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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back biter
One who slanders another behind his back, i.e. in his absence. His bosom friends are become his back...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, w...
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back door
(usher, or gentleman of the)
A sodomite.
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bloody back
A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat.
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bully back
A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit t...
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crook back
Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE.
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back-blocks
n.
1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydneyside Saxon,' vol. xii. p. 215:
«`What a nic...
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back-blocker
n.
a resident in the back-blocks.
1870. `The Argus,' March 22, p. 7, col. 2
«I am a bushman, a ba...
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back-slanging
verbal n.
In the back-blocks (q.v.) of Australia, where hotels are naturally scarce andinferior, th...
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fiddle-back
n.
name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae.
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mealy-back
n.
a local name for the locust (q.v.).
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saddle-back
n.
a bird of the North Island ofNew Zealand, Creadion carunculatus, Cab. See also Jack-bird and Cre...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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pick-back
On the back.--Johnson. We often use the word with children. To ride pick-back, is for a child to rid...
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u-back
U-BLOCK, &c. ; a christmas-block. See yu-batch. N.
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back-board
A board across the stern sheets of a boat to support the back of passengers; and also to form the bo...
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back-cutting
When the water-level is such that the excavation of a canal, or other channel, does not furnish eart...
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back-frame
A vertical wheel for turning the three whirlers of a small rope-machine.
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back-her
The order, in steam-navigation, directing the engineer to reverse the movement of the cranks and urg...
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back-rope
The rope-pendant, or small chain for staying the dolphin-striker. Also a piece long enough to reach ...
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back-staff
A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...
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back-strapped
As a ship carried round to the back of Gibraltar by a counter-current and eddies of wind, the strong...
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back-sweep
That which forms the hollow of the top-timber of a frame.
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back-water
The swell of the sea thrown back, or rebounded by its contact with any solid body. Also the loss of ...
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beaten back
Returning into port from stress of foul weather.
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heckle-back
A name of the fifteen-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus spinachia.
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razor-back
The fin-whale (Balænoptera), so called from its prominent dorsal fin. It usually attains the length ...
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strong-back
The same with Samson's post (which see). Also, an adaptation of a strong piece of wood over the wind...
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swart-back
The Larus marinus, or great black and white gull.
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thorn-back
A well-known fish of the ray kind, Raia clavata.
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walk back!
A method in cases where a purchase must not be lowered by a round turn, as "Walk back the capstan;" ...
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pricking for a soft plank
Selecting a place on the deck for sleeping upon.
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
II. To ·prep Character; condition of being; purpose subserved ...
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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broach a business, to
To begin it.
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buffet a billow, to
To work against wind and tide.
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build a chapel, to
To turn a ship suddenly by negligent steerage.
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cable, to coil a
To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other.
♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.)
♦ To pay cheap ...
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cleat a gun, to
To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...
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clinch a business, to
To finish it; to settle it beyond further dispute, as the recruit taking the shilling.
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cut a stick, to
To make off clandestinely.
♦ Cut your stick, be off, or go away.
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feather, to cut a
When a ship has so sharp a bow that she makes the spray feather in cleaving it.
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lay a gun, to
So to direct it as that its shot may be expected to strike a given object; for which purpose its axi...
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loose a rope, to
To cast it off, or let it go.
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mount a gun, to
To place it on its carriage.
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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to
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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to
To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...
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point a gun, to
To direct it on a given object.
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point a sail, to
To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.)
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purchase a commission, to
A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...
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raise a siege, to
To abandon or cause the abandonment of a siege.
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rate a chronometer, to
To determine its daily gaining or losing rate on mean time.
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reduce a charge, to
To diminish the contents of a cartridge, sometimes requisite during heavy firing.
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reduce a place, to
To compel its commander to surrender, or vacate it by capitulation.
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return a salute, to
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risk a run, to
To take chance without convoy.
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scour a beach, to
To pour a quick flanking fire along it, in order to dislodge an enemy.
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shift a berth, to
To move from one anchorage to another.
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speak a vessel, to
To pass within hail of her for that purpose.
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spin a yarn, to
To tell a long story; much prized in a dreary watch, if not tedious.
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spin a twist or a yarn, to
To tell a long story; much prized in a dreary watch, if not tedious.
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spread a fleet, to
To keep more open order.
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support a friend, to
To make every exertion to assist a vessel in distress, from whatever cause. Neglect of this incurs p...
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top a boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...
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top a yard or boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...
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trail a pike, to
To hold the spear end in the right hand, and the butt trailed behind the bearer.
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traverse a yard, to
To get it fore and aft.
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turn, to catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.
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turn, to take or catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.
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turn a turtle, to
To take the animal by seizing a flipper, and throwing him on his back, which renders him quite helpl...
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wend a course, to
To sail steadily on a given direction.
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wind a boat, to
To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.)
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wind a ship or boat, to
To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.)
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work a ship, to
To adapt the sails to the force and direction of the wind.
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wring a mast, to
To bend, cripple, or strain it out of its natural position by setting the shrouds up too taut. The p...
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drag for the anchor, to
The same as creep or sweep.
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whistle for the wind, to
A superstitious practice among old seamen, who are equally scrupulous to avoid whistling during a he...
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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee;
— a nickname.
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above one's bend
Out of one's power; beyond reach. A common expression in the Western States.
I shall not attempt to...
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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lie-to, to
To cause a vessel to keep her head steady as regards a gale, so that a heavy sea may not tumble into...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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to carry a horse to water
instead of lead or ride him to water. A Southern expression.--Sherwood, Georgia.
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breeze, to kick up a
To excite disturbance, and promote a quarrelsome row.
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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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gather aft a sheet, to
to pull it in, by hauling in slack.
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hold a good wind, to
To have weatherly qualities.
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kick up a dust, to
To create a row or disturbance.
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lay up a ship, to
To dismantle her.
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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to
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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to
To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...
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luff into a harbour, to
To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...
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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.)
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pick up a wind, to
Traverses made by oceanic voyagers; to run from one trade or prevalent wind to another, with as litt...
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roll up a sail, to
To hand it quickly.
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run down a coast, to
To sail along it, keeping parallel to or skirting its dangers.
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run down a vessel, to
To pass over, into, or foul her by running against her end-on, so as to jeopardize her.
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run out a warp, to
To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...
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stretch along a brace, to
To lay it along the decks in readiness for the men to lay hold of; called manning it.
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thwart-marks, to a harbour
Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...
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lie-to, in a gale
, is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...
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turn in a heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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under-run a warp, to
To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...
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under-run a hawser or warp, to
To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...
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angling for farthings
Begging out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
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blood for blood
A term used by tradesmen for bartering the different commodities in which they deal. Thus a hatter f...
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tenant for life
A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life.
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tit for tat
An equivalent.
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in for it
Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating.
You may twitch at your collar and wrinkle you...
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tit for tat
The phrase "tit for tat, if you kill my dog I'll kill your cat," is among the provincialisms of Hant...
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take order for
to provide for or against any thing. North.
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whicket for whacket
an equivalent ; QUID PRO QUO. Kent.
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quittee for quottee
an equivalent ; QUID PRO QUO. Kent.
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white for quite
QUITE, per aphaeresin, pro REQUITE.
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battens for hammocks
See hammock-battens.
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changey-for-changey
A rude barter among men-of-war's men, as bread for vegetables, or any "swap."
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end for end
Reversing cordage, casks, logs, spars, &c.
To shift a rope end for end, as in a tackle, the fall i...
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fit for duty
In an effective state for service.
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full for stays!
The order to keep the sails full to preserve the velocity, assisting the action of the rudder in tac...
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hank for hank
In beating against the wind each board is thus sometimes denoted. Also, expressive of two ships whic...
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indenting for stores
An indispensable duty to show that every article has been actually received.
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loosing for sea
Weighing the anchor.
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stations for stays!
Repair to your posts to tack ship.
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tie-for-tye
Mutual obligation and no favour; as in the case of the tie-mate, the comrade who, in the days of lon...
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toko for yam
An expression peculiar to negroes for crying out before being hurt.
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ton for ton and man for man
A phrase implying that ships sailing as consorts, ought fairly to divide whatever prize they take.
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tubes, for guns
A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent,
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veer a buoy in a ship's wake, to
To slack out a rope to which a buoy has been attached, and let it go astern, for the purpose of brin...
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