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veer, to
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Veer
·vi To change direction; to <<Turn>>; to <<Shift>>; as, wind veers to the west or north.
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bitt the cable, to
To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...
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cut the cable, to
A manœuvre sometimes necessary for making a ship cast the right way, or when the anchor cannot be we...
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Cable
·vt To fasten with a cable.
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cable
A thick, strong rope or chain which serves to keep a ship at anchor; the rope is cable-laid, 10 inch...
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Away
·adv From a place; hence.
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carry away, to
To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off. It is customary...
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edge away, to
To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...
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wind away, to
To steer through narrow channels.
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bending the cable
The operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. The term is still used for...
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veering cable, the
That cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse.
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veer and haul, to
To gently tauten and then slacken a rope three times before giving a heavy pull, the object being to...
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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.)
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cable-sheet, sheet-cable
The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...
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cable-stream, stream-cable
A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...
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stopper of the cable
Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...
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nines, to the
An expression to denote complete.
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Sheet cable
·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
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cable-bends
Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch...
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cable-bitted
So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease.
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cable-bitts
See bitts.
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cable-buoys
Peculiar casks employed to buoy up rope cables in a rocky anchorage, to prevent their rubbing agains...
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cable-enough
The call when cable enough is veered to permit of the anchor being brought to the cat-head.
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cable-hanger
A term applied to any person catching oysters in the river Medway, not free of the fishery, and who ...
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cable-stage
A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on.
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cable-tier
The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away.
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sheet-cable
A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...
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stream-cable
A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...
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Away-going
·adj Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration;
— said of cr...
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to spirit away
To kidnap, or inveigle away.
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to blaze away
To keep up a discharge of fire-arms. A good English phrase.
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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors.
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right away
Directly; immediately.
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away aloft
The order to the men in the rigging to start up.
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away off
At a distance, but in sight.
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away there
The call for a boat's crew; as, "away there! barge-men."
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bowling away
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bolling or bowling away
Going with a free wind.
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cast-away
Shipwrecked.
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ease away!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall.
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fire-away
Go on with your remarks.
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fly-away
Fictitious resemblance of land; "Dutchman's cape," &c. (See cape fly-away.)
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here-away
A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter.
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lash away
A phrase to hasten the lashing of hammocks.
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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope.
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right away!
It is a habit of seamen answering when a sail is discovered from the mast-head; "Right away on the b...
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there away!
A phrase accompanied by pointing on a bearing, or to an object in sight. Thereabout, in that quarter...
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walk away!
The order to step out briskly with a tackle fall, as in hoisting boats.
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where away?
In what bearing? a question to the man at the mast-head to designate in what direction a strange sai...
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sheer to the anchor, to
To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...
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was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome. (Acts 28:16) (A.D. 62.) The ...
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was written by the apostle St. Paul not long after his journey through Galatia and Phrygia, (Acts 18...
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stand clear of the cable!
A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
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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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walking away with the anchor
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...
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moor with a spring on the cable, to
See spring.
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
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Colossians, Epistle to the
Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the sp...
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Romans, Epistle to the
This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, an...
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The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles. It was in all probabili...
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Passage to the Hospital
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lead, to strike the
See above. Used figurativelyfor to succeed.
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up to the hub
To the extreme point. The figure is that of a vehicle sunk in the mud up to the hub of the wheels, w...
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battle the watch, to
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions.
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box the compass, to
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
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bringing-to the yard
Hoisting up a sail, and bending it to its yard.
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brought to the gangway
Punished.
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capstan, to man the
To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave.
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capstan, to paul the
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...
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capstan, to rig the
To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...
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close the wind, to
To haul to it.
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drag the anchor, to
The act of the anchors coming home.
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feel the helm, to
To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of...
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fish the anchor, to
To turn up the flukes of an anchor to the gunwale for stowage, after being catted.
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freshen the nip, to
To veer a small portion of cable through the hawse-hole, or heave a little in, in order to let anoth...
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gain the wind, to
To arrive on the weather-side of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward.
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kick the bucket, to
To expire; an inconsiderate phrase for dying.
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lay the land, to
Barely to lose sight of it.
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lie the course, to
When the vessel's head is in the direction wished.
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make the land, to
To see it from a distance after a voyage.
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miller, to drown the
To put an overdose of water to grog.
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misrepresentation to the underwriters
, of any fact or circumstance material to the risk of insuring, whether by the insured or his agent,...
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moor the boat, to
To fasten her with two ropes, so that the one shall counteract the other, and keep her in a steady p...
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muffle the oars, to
To put some matting or canvas round the loom when rowing, to prevent its making a noise against the ...
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muzzle to the left!
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muzzle to the right!
, or muzzle to the left!
The order given to trim the gun to the object.
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raise the metal to
To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun.
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raise the wind, to
To make an exertion; to cast about for funds.
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rig the capstan, to
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...
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scour the seas, to
To infest the ocean as a pirate.
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serve the vent, to
To stop it with the thumb.
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set the chase, to
To mark well the position of the vessel chased by bearing, so that by standing away from her on one ...
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shoot the compass, to
To shoot wide of the mark.
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shoot the sun, to
To take its meridional altitude; literally aiming at the reflected sun through the telescope of the ...
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sight the anchor, to
To heave it up in sight, in order to prove that it is clear, when, from the ship having gone over it...
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stop the vent, to
To close it hermetically by pressing the thumb to it.
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stream the buoy, to
To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...
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strip the masts, to
To clear the masts of their rigging.
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suck the monkey, to
To rob the grog-can. (See monkey.)
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surge the capstan, to
To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul.
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top the glim, to
To snuff the candle.
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top the officer, to
To arrogate superiority.
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trench the ballast, to
To divide the ballast in a ship's hold to get at a leak, or to trim and stow it.
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weather the cape, to
To become experienced; as it implies sailing round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope.
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Hebrews, Epistle To The
The author-There has been a wide difference of opinion respecting the authorship of this epistle.
F...
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Philippians, Epistle To The
was St. Paul from Rome in A.D. 62 or 63. St. Paul's connection with Philippi was of a peculiar chara...
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Romans, Epistle To The
The date of this epistle is fixed at the time of the visit recorded in Acts 20:3 during the winter a...
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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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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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Cable, George Washington
(b. 1844)
American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881...
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cable-laid rope
Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...
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chain-cable compressor
A curved arm of iron which revolves on a bolt through an eye at one end, at the other is a larger ey...
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chain-cable controller
A contrivance for the prevention of one part of the chain riding on another while heaving in.
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chain-cable shackles
Used for coupling the parts of a chain-cable at various lengths, so that they may be disconnected wh...
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range of cable
A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...
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away she goes
The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...
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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c.
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cape fly-away
A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.)
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ease away there!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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north-away yawl
The old term for Norway yawl (which see).
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pull-away-boys
A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...
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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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Corinthians, First Epistle to the
Was written from Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:8) about the time of the Passover in the third year of the apost...
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to stand up to the rack
A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...
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to make the fur fly
To claw; scratch; wound severely. Used figuratively.
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muckson up to the huckson
dirty up to the knuckles. S.
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bring by the lee, to
To incline so rapidly to leeward of the course when the ship sails large, or nearly before the wind,...
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bring home the anchor, to
is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...
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capstan, to come up the
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
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capstan, to heave at the
To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described.
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close with the land, to
To approach near to it.
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die on the fin, to
An expression applied to whales, which when dying rise to the surface, after the final dive, with on...
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drag for the anchor, to
The same as creep or sweep.
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fly the sheets, to let
To let them go suddenly.
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judge-advocate to the forces
A legal officer whose duty it is to investigate offences previous to determining on sending them bef...
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marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls
To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...
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north passage to the indies
The grand object of our maritime expeditions at a remote period, prosecuted with a boldness, dexteri...
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run, to lower by the
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.
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shake in the wind, to
To bring a vessel's head so near the wind, when close-hauled, as to shiver the sails.
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span in the rigging, to
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...
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stripped to the girt-line
All the standing-rigging and furniture having been cleared off the masts in the course of dismantlin...
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tell that to the marines!
A sailor's exclamation when an improbable story is related to him.
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toss up the bunt, to
In furling a sail, to make its final package at the centre of the yard when in its skin.
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turn the hands up, to
To summon the entire crew on deck.
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walk the quarter-deck, to
A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer.
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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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whistling psalms to the taffrail
Expending advice to no purpose.
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Corinthians, First Epistle To The
was written by the apostle St. Paul toward the close of his nearly three-years stay at Ephesus, (Act...
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Corinthians, Second Epistle To The
was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year-about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58...
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Thessalonians, First Epistle To The
was written by the apostle Paul at Corinth, a few months after he had founded the church at Thessalo...
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Thessalonians, Second Epistle To The
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put to sea, to
To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination.
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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...
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Lean-to
·adj Having only one slope or pitch;
— said of a roof.
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Set-to
·noun A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
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To-beat
·vt To beat thoroughly or severely.
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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces.
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To-brest
·vt To burst or break in pieces.
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To-day
·noun The present day.
II. To-day ·prep On this day; on the present day.
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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to.
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To-name
·noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
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To-rend
·vt To rend in pieces.
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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend.
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to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
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to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
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to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
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to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant. --Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
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to grab
To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, sn...
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hump, to
v.
to shoulder, carry on the back;especially, to hump the swag, or bluey, or drum. See Swag, Bluey,...
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jump, to
v.
to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cotton to
'To cotton to one,' is to take a liking to him; to fancy him; literally to stick to him, as cotton w...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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abase, to
An old word signifying to lower a flag or sail. Abaisser is in use in the French marine, and both ma...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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abate, to
An old Anglo-Norman word from abattre, to beat down or destroy; as, to abate a castle or fort, is to...
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abet, to
To excite or encourage a common word, greatly in use at boat-racings, and other competitive acts.
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abrase, to
To dubb or smooth planks.
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accoil, to
To coil together, by folding round. (See coil.)
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accompany, to
To sail together; to sail in convoy.
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accost, to
To pass within hail of a ship; to sail coastwise; to approach, to draw near, or come side by side.
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adjourn, to
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays exc...
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adjust, to
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a ch...
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allow, to
To concede a destined portion of stores, &c.
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annul, to
To nullify a signal.
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answer, to
To reply, to succeed; as, the frigate has answered the signal. This boat will not answer.
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