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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...

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Watch
·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...

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watch
The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...

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Tackle
·noun To supply with tackle. II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem. II...

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tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mi...

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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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watch and watch
The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...

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Anchor watch
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...

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Watch meeting
·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. ...

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Watch House
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...

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dumb watch
A venereal bubo in the groin. ...

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afternoon-watch
The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M. ...

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anchor-watch
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...

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comparison watch
The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer. ...

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dog-watch
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...

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first watch
The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight. ...

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hack-watch
, or job-watch (which see). ...

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harbour-watch
A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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job-watch
, or hack-watch , for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...

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larboard-watch
The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...

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middle-watch
The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...

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morning watch
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M. ...

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quarter-watch
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...

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watch-bill
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...

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watch-glasses
The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations the...

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watch-setting
In the army, retreat, or the time for mounting the night-guards. ...

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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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winding-tackle
A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block, and one double or triple movable block. It ...

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Old Watch House, Bishopsgate
On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard. "Ye olde Watch Hous...

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Watch House, Barbican
At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746). Removed i...

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Watch House, Bishopsgate
See Old Watch House. ...

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Watch House, Minories
Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...

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call the watch
This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...

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keeping a watch
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...

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muster the watch
A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M. ...

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setting the watch
The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...

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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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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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midshipman's watch and chain
A sheep's heart and pluck. ...

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watch, chain, and seals
A sheep's head And pluck. ...

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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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mate of a watch
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...

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officer of the watch
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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up-and-down tackle
A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...

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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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feeding-part of a tackle
That running through the sheaves, in opposition to the standing part. ...

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running part of a tackle
Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...

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standing part of a tackle or rope
The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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