wash-boards

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• Wash

  ·adj Washy; weak. II. Wash ·noun A liquid dentifrice. III. Wash ·noun Ten strikes, or bushels, of ...

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• wash

  Paint for the face, or cosmetic water. Hog-wash; thick and bad beer. ...

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• wash

  An accumulation of silt in estuaries. Also, a surface covered by floods. Also, a shallow inlet or gu...

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• bill-boards

  Doubling under the fore-channels to the water-line, to protect the planking from the bill of the anc...

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• float-boards

  The same as floats of a paddle-wheel. ...

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• guard-boards

  Synonymous with chain-wales. ...

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• head-boards

  The berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails. ...

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• lee-boards

  Wooden wings or strong frames of plank affixed to the sides of flat-bottomed vessels, such as Dutch ...

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• limber boards or plates

  Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...

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• marine boards

  Establishments at our different ports for carrying into effect the provisions of the Merchant Shippi...

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• shifting-boards

  One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...

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• short boards

  Frequent tacking, where there is not room for long boards, or from some other cause, as weather or t...

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• spla-boards

  Planks fixed at an obtuse angle, to reflect light into a magazine. ...

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• trail-boards

  A carved board on each side of the stem, reaching from it to the figure, or to the brackets. The car...

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• waist-boards

  The berthing made to fit into a vessel's gangway on either side. ...

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• weather-boards

  Pieces of plank placed in the ports of a ship when laid up in ordinary; they are in an inclined posi...

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• Black wash

  ·noun ·Alt. of <<Blackwash>>. ...

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• By-wash

  ·noun The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water. ...

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• Wash drawing

  ·add. ·- In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from ...

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• Wash sale

  ·add. ·- A sale made in washing. ·see <<Washing>>, ·noun, 3, above. ...

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• Wash stand

  ·add. ·- In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may b...

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• Wash-off

  ·adj Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; — said of colors not fixed by steaming ...

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• Wish-wash

  ·noun Any weak, thin drink. ...

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• Wood-wash

  ·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen. ...

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• pan-wash

  See pan ...

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• sheep-wash

  (used as verb) to wash sheep. The word isalso used as a noun, in its ordinary English senses of (1)...

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• a-wash

  Reefs even with the surface. The anchor just rising to the water's edge, in heaving up. ...

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• by-wash

  The outlet of water from a dam or discharge channel. ...

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• wash-strake

  See wash-board ...

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• wash-board

  , or wash-strake. A movable upper strake which is attached by stud-pins on the gunwales of boats t...

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• wash-water

  A ford. ...

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• long and short boards

  See tack and half-tack. ...

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• top-gallant quarter-boards

  , or top-gallant bulwarks. See quarter-boards. ...

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• wash of an oar

  See blade of an oar ...

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• heave and a-wash

  An encouraging call when the ring of the anchor rises to the surface, and the stock stirs the water....

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