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Whip
·vt The long pennant. ·see Pennant (a).
II. Whip ·vt To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
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whip
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A single rope rove through a single block to hoist in light articles. Where greater and steadie...
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Saw
·- imp. of ·see.
II. Saw ·vt Dictate; command; decree.
III. Saw ·Impf of <<See>>.
IV. Saw ·vt A s...
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saw
An old saw; an ancient proverbial saying.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Saw
Egyptian saws, so far as has yet been discovered, are single-handed. As is the case in modern Orient...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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whip upon whip
A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...
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Sea whip
·- A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Whip-shaped
·adj Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or s...
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whip jacks
The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stock-whip
n.
whip for driving cattle.See quotations.
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100:
«The s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-bird
n.
See coach-whip bird.
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whip-snake
n.
or Little Whip-Snake.See under snake.
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whip-stick
n.
variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub.
1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
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penny-whip
very small beer. Lane, a penny per quart.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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coach-whip
The pendant.
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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whip-staff
See whipII
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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whip-ray
A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...
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Bow-saw
·noun A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.
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Crown-saw
·noun A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotat...
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Quarter-saw
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boar...
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Saw palmetto
·- ·see under <<Palmetto>>.
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Saw-set
·noun An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a k...
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Saw-toothed
·adj Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
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Saw-whet
·noun A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes...
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Saw-wort
·noun Any plant of the composite genus Serratula;
— so named from the serrated leaves of most of th...
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Saw-wrest
·noun ·see Saw-set.
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Sweep-saw
·noun A bow-saw.
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Tenant saw
·- ·see Tenon saw, under <<Tenon>>.
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Saw Court
In Fore Street, Cripplegate (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
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saw-fish
n.
a species of Ray, Pristiszysron, Bleek, the Australasian representative of the Pristidae family,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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saw-whet
The popular name, in some of the Northern States, for the Little Owl, or Acadian Owl of Audubon. "It...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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compass-saw
A narrow saw, which, inserted in a hole bored by a centre-bit, follows out required curves.
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drag-saw
A cross-cut saw.
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hack-saw
Used for cutting off the heads of bolts; made of a scythe fresh serrated.
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hand-saw
The smallest of the saws used by shipwrights, and used by one hand.
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hock-saw
A fermented drink along the coasts of China, partaking more of the nature of beer than of spirit, an...
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ice-saw
A huge saw for cutting through ice; it is made of 2/8 to 3/8 inch plates of iron, and varies in leng...
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saw-bill
A name for the goosander, Mergus merganser.
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saw-bones
A sobriquet for the surgeon and his assistants.
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saw-fish
A species of shark (Pristis antiquorum) with the bones of the face produced into a long flat rostrum...
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see-saw
Reciprocating motion.
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Whip-poor-will
·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker;
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Whip-tom-kelly
·noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida;
— called also black-whisker...
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to whip the cock
A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whip-belly vengeance
or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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coach-whip bird
n.
Psophodes crepitans,V. and H. (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 15);Black-throate...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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little whip-snake
See snake
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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two-handed saw
A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose