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up and down
The situation of the cable when it has been hove in sufficiently to bring the ship directly over the...
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right up and down
Said in a dead calm, when the wind is no way at all. Or, in anchor work, when the cable is in that c...
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Tackle
·noun To supply with tackle.
II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
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tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tackle
A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England.
TO TACKLE
1) To tackle a horse, is to h...
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tackle
A purchase formed by the connection of a fall, or rope, with two or more blocks. When a power sustai...
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Down
·adj Downcast; as, a down look.
II. Down ·adv From a remoter or higher antiquity.
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down
Aware of a thing. Knowing it. There is NO DOWN. A cant phrase used by house-breakers to signify that...
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down
I.
n.
a prejudice against, hostility to;a peculiarly Australian noun made out of the adverb.
1856...
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Up
·prep <<Upon>>.
II. Up ·adv Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapon...
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
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Fish-tackle
·noun A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used ...
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Top-tackle
·noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
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cat-tackle
A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...
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deck-tackle
A purchase led along the decks.
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fish-tackle
A tackle employed to hook and draw up the flukes of a ship's anchor towards the top of the bow, afte...
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fore-tackle
A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...
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ground-tackle
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...
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hoisting-tackle
A whip, a burton, or greater purchase, as yard-arm tackles, &c.
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jigger-tackle
A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions abo...
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luff-tackle
A purchase composed of a double and single block, the standing end of the rope being fast to the sin...
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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quarter-tackle
A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...
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spike-tackle and cant-falls
The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship.
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tackle-fall
The part hauled upon in any tackle, simple or compound.
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tail-tackle
A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...
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top-tackle
A large tackle, or properly pendant, hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope, and to the de...
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train-tackle
A tackle which is during action hooked to an eye-bolt in the train of a gun-carriage, and to a ring-...
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truss-tackle
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...
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watch-tackle
A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...
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winding-tackle
A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block, and one double or triple movable block. It ...
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down wind, down sea
A proverbial expression among seamen between the tropics, where the sea is soon raised by the wind, ...
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Tackle House and Ticket Porters
This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...
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Down-share
·noun A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
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Down-wind
·add. ·adv With the wind.
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Lock-down
·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting;
— used by lumbermen.
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Steep-down
·adj Deep and precipitous, having steep descent.
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Step-down
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressu...
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Swan's-down
·noun ·Alt. of Swans-down.
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Swans-down
·noun The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
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Tumble-down
·adj Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
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down hills
Dice that run low.
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to drop down
To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die gam...
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boil down
v.
to reduce a statement to itssimplest form; a constant term amongst pressmen. Over thereporters' ...
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knock-down
v.
generally of a cheque. To spendriotously, usually in drink.
1869. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic P...
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lamb down
v. tr.
1) To knock down a cheque or a sum of money in a spree.There is an old English verb, of Scan...
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mulga-down
n.
hills covered with Mulga.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvii. p. 201:
«Fascin...
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take (a man) down
Australian sporting slang.
1) Toinduce a man to bet, knowing that he must lose.
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clap down
To set down; charge to one's account.
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to knock down
A word used at auctions. 'This article is knocked down to you, sir;' meaning, that you are the purch...
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down upon
To be down upon, is to seize with avidity, as a bird of prey would pounce down upon its victim. Allu...
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slipper-down
A vulgar name in some parts of Connecticut for hasty pudding. The etymology is obvious.
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down-lying
just going to be brought to bed. N.
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blacking down
The tarring and blacking of rigging; or the operation of blacking the ship's sides with tar or miner...
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bore down
Sailed down from to windward.
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cutting down
Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...
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down along
Sailing coastways down Channel.
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down east
Far away in that bearing. This term, as down west, &c., is an Americanism, recently adopted into our...
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down-haul
A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to t...
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down killock!
Let go the grapnel; the corruption of keel-hook or anchor.
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down oars!
The order on shoving off a boat when the men have had them "tossed up."
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go down
The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.
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heaving down
(See careening.) The bringing one of a ship's sides down into the water, by means of purchases on th...
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hove down
, properly hove out or careened. The situation of a ship when heeled or placed thus for repairs.
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hull-down
Is said of a ship when at such a distance that, from the convexity of the globe, only her masts and ...
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laying down
, or laying off.
The act of delineating the various lines of a ship to the full size on the mould-...
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pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship.
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riding-down
The act of the men who throw their weight on the head of a sail to stretch it. Also, of the man who ...
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strike down!
The order to lower casks, &c., into the hold.
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union down
When a ship hoists her ensign upside down it is a signal of distress or of mourning.
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brace up and haul aft!
The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...
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bung-up and bilge-free
A cask so placed that its bung-stave is uppermost, and it rests entirely on its beds.
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Break-up
·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...
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Flare-up
·noun A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
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Frame-up
·add. ·noun A conspiracy or plot, ·esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person ...
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Get-up
·noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; ...
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Higher-up
·add. ·noun A superior officer or official;
— used chiefly in ·pl
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Hunt's-up
·noun A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousi...
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Let-up
·noun Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
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Line-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>.
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Make-up
·noun The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is d...
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Making-up
·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
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Pick-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Pickup>>.
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Pricking-up
·noun The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once ...
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Put-up
·adj Arranged; plotted;
— in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals.
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Seven-up
·noun The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
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Start-up
·noun A kind of high rustic shoe.
II. Start-up ·adj <<Upstart>>.
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Steep-up
·adj Lofty and precipitous.
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Step-up
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...
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Stuck-up
·adj Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
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Take-up
·noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the...
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Tilt-up
·noun ·same·as Tip-up.
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Tip-up
·noun The spotted sandpiper;
— called also teeter-tail. ·see under <<Sandpiper>>.
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Up-line
·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...
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Up-over
·add. ·adj Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising i...
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Up-train
·- A train going in the direction conventionally called up.
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Up-wind
·add. ·adv Against the wind.
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Wind-up
·add. ·noun Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bang up
(WHIP.)
Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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cooped up
Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop.
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dished up
He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twi...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern Term.
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to mop up
To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
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tucked up
Hanged. A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress.
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turned up
Acquitted; discharged.
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used up
Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedit...
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bail up
v.
1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking.
2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...
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hang up
v.
to tie up a horse.
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' p. 49 [Footnote]:
«In Melbourne there a...
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log up
v.
to make a log-support for thewindlass.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. v. p. 54:
«W...
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ready up
v.
See quotation.
1893. `The Age,' Nov. 25, p. 13, col. 2:
« Mr. Purees: A statement has been mad...
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roll up
v. intr.
to gather, to assemble.
1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 26:
«The miners all rolled u...
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roll-up
n.
a meeting. See preceding verb.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxv. p. 308:
«Makin...
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stick-up
v. tr.
1) The regular word for theaction of bushrangers stopping passers-by on the highway androbbi...
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sticker-up
I.
n. sc.
a bushranger.
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
«They had only just been liber...
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stock-up
v.
complete the number of animalson a station, so that it may carry its full complement.
1890. Rol...
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
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to brisk up
To come up with life and speed; to take an erect or bold attitude.--Webster. An Americanism.
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to brush up
To prepare oneself; to take courage.
When Miss Mary came, I brushed up, and was determined to have ...
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to chaw up
To use up; demolish.
I heerd Tom Jones swar he'd chaw me up, if an inch of me was found in them dig...
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to crack up
To crack, i. e. to brag or boast, is a verb common in old authors, from Chaucer downwards, and still...
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cuddle up
To hug or fondle. So used in some parts of England.
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to cut up
1) To criticise with severity; as, he was severely cut up in the newspapers.
Some correspondent ask...
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to fetch up
To stop suddenly. This sense of the word is not noticed in the English dictionaries, nor by Webster....
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to flare up
To blaze out; to get excited suddenly; to get into a passion.
It is expected that this grand discus...
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to hold up
In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining.
Though nice and dark the p...
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to knock up
To wear out with fatigue.--Halliwell.
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to pony up
A vulgar phrase, meaning to pay over money. Ex. 'Come, Mr. B----, pony up that account;' that is, pa...
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
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to serve up
To expose to ridicule; to expose.
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to shut up
To hold one's tongue. A vulgar expression.
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to slick up
To dress up; to make fine.
Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk sh...
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to spruce up
To dress oneself sprucely. In Sussex (England) they say, to sprug up, in the same sense.
To-night w...
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to square up
To put oneself in an attitude fit for boxing. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.
Y...
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to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson.
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to tip up
To raise up one end, as of a cart, so that the contents may pass out.--Worcester. Both this and the ...
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to use up
To discomfit; destroy. Grose has this word, which he calls a military one, meaning killed.
I have p...
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to wind up
To close up; to give the quietus to an antagonist in a debate; to effectually demolish.
John Bell, ...
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
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build up
To erect; and metaphorically to establish, to found.
In this manner it was thought we should sooner...
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buttoning up
A Wall street phrase. When a broker has bought stock on speculation and it falls suddenly on his han...
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chock up
Close, tight; said of a thing which fits closely to another.
When the bells ring, the wood-work the...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagance.--Grose. We use it colloquially, where a person is ruined in any w...
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let up
A let up is a release; a relief. An expression borrowed from pugilists.
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pertend up
Better; more cheerful.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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pick-up
A pick-up, or a pick-up dinner, is a dinner made up of such fragments of cold meats as remain from f...
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tilt-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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tip-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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up to
To be up to a thing,' is to understand it. A common English and American vulgarism.
Have you ever t...
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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brail up!
The order to pull upon the brails, and thereby spill and haul in the sail. The mizen, or spanker, or...
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breezing up
The gale freshening.
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bringers up
The last men in a boarding or small-arm party. Among soldiers, it means the whole last rank of a bat...
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broke-up
Said of a gale of wind passing away; or a ship which has gone to pieces on a reef, &c.
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bundle-up!
The call to the men below to hurry up on deck.
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chock-up
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c.
Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
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clue up!
The order to clue up the square sails.
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dock up
, or duck up
To clue up a corner of a sail that hinders the helmsman from seeing.
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drawing up
Adjusting a ship's station in the line; the converse of dropping astern.
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drifting-up
Is used as relating to sands which are driven by the winds. As at Cape Blanco, on the coast of Afric...
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duck-up!
A term used by the steersman when the main-sail, fore-sail, or sprit-sail hinders his seeing to stee...
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fly-up
A sudden deviation upwards from a sheer line; the term is nearly synonymous with flight.
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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jiggered-up
Done up; tired out.
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laid up
A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further ...
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rounding-up
Is to haul through the slack of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular direction, without sustainin...
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setting-up
Raising a ship from her blocks, shores, &c., by wedges driven between the heels of the shore and the...
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set up
Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in...
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sharp up
Trimmed as near as possible to the wind, with the yards braced up nearly fore and aft.
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standing up
A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas.
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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take-up
The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes...
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tumble up!
A requisition of the boatswain's mates, &c., to quicken the hands after being piped up. The cry is w...
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up along
Sailing from the mouth of the channel upwards.
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up anchor
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station.
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up boats!
The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits.
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up courses!
The order to haul them up by the clue-garnets, &c.
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up screw!
The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail.
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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wedging up
Gaining security by driving wedges.
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working up
The keeping men at work on needless matters, beyond the usual hours, for punishment.
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anchor-stock tackle
A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...
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gun-tackle purchase
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.)
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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racking a tackle or laniard
The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...
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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used.
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shifting a tackle
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
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top burton-tackle
See burton.
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top-tackle pendant
The pendant used with the above. The top-mast is swayed up by a top-rope or hawser. The pendant, whi...
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winding-tackle pendant
A strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head, and forming the support of the winding-tackle.
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knock me down
Strong ale or beer, stingo.
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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...
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edge down, to
To approach any object in an oblique direction.
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