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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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Staff
·noun The round of a ladder.
II. Staff ·noun An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
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staff
'To have the staff in one's own hand,' is to keep possession of one's own property, and, consequentl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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staff
A light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoist and display the colours; as, the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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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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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-snake
n.
or Little Whip-Snake.See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-stick
n.
variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub.
1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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-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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whip-saw
The largest of that class of useful instruments, being that generally used at the saw-pit.
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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...
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Rock staff
·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
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bauk-staff
a quarter-staff. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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gib-staff
1) a hook-stick, pronounced [GHIB]. York.
2) a quarter-staff. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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grain-staff
a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S.
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almacantars staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun's amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 d...
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back-staff
A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...
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cross-staff
See fore-staff.
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david's-staff
A kind of quadrant formerly used in navigation.
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dwang-staff
This is otherwise the wrain-staff (which see).
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flag-staff
In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...
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fore-staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...
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futtock-staff
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...
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jack-staff
A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted.
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jacob's staff
, or cross-staff.
A mathematical instrument to take altitudes, consisting of a brass circle, divid...
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rule-staff
A lath about 4 inches in breadth, used for curves in ship-building.
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staff-captain
A designation conferred in 1863 upon masters of the fleet.
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staff-commanders
A designation conferred in 1863 on masters of fifteen years' seniority.
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staff-officer
On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff.
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wrain-staff
A stout billet of tough wood, tapered at its ends, so as to go into the ring of the wrain-bolt, to m...
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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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Ragged Staff Alley
In Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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regimental staff-officers
The surgeon, adjutant, paymaster, assistant-surgeon, and quarter-master of each regiment.
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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The Bear and Ragged Staff
A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bear and Ragged Staff Alley
East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720).
The si...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, West Smithfield
See Bear Inn.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.