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• Under

  ·prep Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or...

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• Way

  ·noun Progress; as, a ship has way. II. Way ·adv <<Away>>. III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...

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• way

  Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...

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• Under-age

  ·adj Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish...

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• Under-arm

  ·adj Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the ...

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• Under-garment

  ·noun A garment worn below another. ...

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• under dubber

  A turnkey. ...

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• to cut under

  To undersell in price.--New York. ...

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• to knock under

  A common expression to denote that one yields or submits.--Johnson. For ten times ten, and that's a...

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• knuckle-under

  Obey your superior's order; give way to circumstances. ...

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• under-bevelling

  The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling. ...

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• under-bright

  A meteorological term for the strong light which sometimes appears below clouds near the horizon. ...

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• under canvas

  Synonymous with under sail. ...

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• under-current

  A stream which sets beneath the surface-water of the sea whilst that is either in a quiescent state ...

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• under deck

  The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks. ...

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• under foot

  Under the ship's bottom; said of an anchor which is dropped while she has head-way. An anchor is oft...

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• under level

  See bevelling. ...

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• under-manned

  When a ship has an insufficient complement, or is short-handed. ...

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• under-masted

  When the masts are either too small or too short, so that a ship cannot spread the sail necessary to...

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• under metal

  The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...

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• under sail

  The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...

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• under-set

  Wherever the wind impels the surface-water directly upon the shore of a bay, the water below restore...

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• under-skinker

  Assistant to the purser's steward. ...

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• under-tow

  An under current especially noticed at the mouths of great rivers, or where tide and half-tides prev...

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• Four-way

  ·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. ...

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• Three-way

  ·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. ...

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• Two-way

  ·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...

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• Water way

  ·- ·same·as Water course. ...

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• Way shaft

  ·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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• Way-going

  ·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. ...

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• Way-goose

  ·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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• Way-wise

  ·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. ...

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• way-bill

  A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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• carpet-way

  a green way, a way on the turf. S. ...

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• gainest-way

  the nearest way. N. ...

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• leech-way

  the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...

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• spur-way

  a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S. ...

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• way-bit

  (or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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• way-bread

  plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...

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• whapple-way

  a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S. ...

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• companion-way

  The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin. ...

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• covered way

  In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...

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• covert-way

  See covered way. ...

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• drift-way

  Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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• fair-way

  The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...

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• freshen way

  When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace. ...

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• fresh way

  Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...

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• give way

  The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...

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• head-way

  A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...

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• lee-way

  What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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• milky way

  See via lactea. ...

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• right way

  When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor. ...

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• sea-way

  The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...

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• steerage-way

  When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective. ...

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• stern-way

  The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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• stoach-way

  The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...

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• tide-way

  The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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• 'way up!

  See way aloft! ...

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• 'way aloft!

  or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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• way-gate

  The tail-race of a mill. ...

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• wrong way

  When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...

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• half-topsails, under

  Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon. ...

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• hand-under-hand

  Descending a rope by the converse of hand-over-hand ascent. ...

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• lee-gunwale under

  A colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause. ...

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• prisoner under restraint

  Suspended from duty; deprived of command. ...

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• staggering under it

  A ship's labouring under as much canvas as she can bear. ...

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• stand from under!

  A notice given to those below to keep out of the way of anything being lowered down, or let fall fro...

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• stand right under!

  Jocularly, "Get out of the way." ...

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• under bare poles

  The condition of a ship under no canvas, or when the wind is too violent to allow of any sail being ...

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• under-shore, to

  To support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it, as a ship is shored up in dock. ...

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• under the lee

  Sheltered from the wind by some intervening object, as a ship under the lee of the land. ...

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• under the sea

  A ship lying-to in a heavy gale, and making bad weather of it. ...

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• under the wind

  So situated to leeward of something as not to feel the wind. ...

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• Great White Way

  ·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...

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• right-of-way

  n. a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...

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• caper corner-way

  Diagonally. ...

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• fetch head-way

  or stern-way. Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern. ...

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• fetch way, to

  Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea. ...

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• gather way, to

  To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm. ...

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• give way together

  So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated. ...

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• keeping her way

  The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

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• lose way, to

  When a ship slackens her progress in the water. ...

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• lost her way

  When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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• make head-way

  A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water. ...

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• pilot's fair-way

  , or pilot's water. A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed. ...

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• sea-way measurer

  A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse. ...

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• (St.) Faith under St. Paul's

  A parish Church under the Quire of St. Paul's, at the west end of Jesus Chapel (S. 331). A crypt of...

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• haul under the chains

  This is a phrase signifying a ship's working and straining on the masts and shrouds, so as to make t...

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• let go under foot

  See under foot. ...

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• lie under arms, to

  To remain in a state of preparation for immediate action. ...

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• over and under turns

  Terms applied to the passing of an earing, besides its inner and outer turns. ...

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• Out-of-the-way

  ·adj ·see under Out, ·adv ...

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• angle of lee-way

  The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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• cast the wrong way

  See wrong way. ...

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• make lee-way, to

  To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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• make stern-way, to

  To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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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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• 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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• give way with a will

  Pull heartily together. ...

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• Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Foster Street. ...

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• moor a cable each way, to

  Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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• which way does the wind lie?

  What is the matter? ...

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• born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat

  Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. ...

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