winter-quarters

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• quarters

  The several stations where the officers and crew of a ship of war are posted in time of action. (See...

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• Winter

  ·noun The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. II. Winter ·vi To keep, feed or manage, dur...

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• Lamb's-quarters

  ·noun A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenop...

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• close-quarters

  , or close-fights Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merc...

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• disposed quarters

  The distribution when the camp is marked about a place besieged. ...

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• head-quarters

  The place where the general, or commanding officer, takes up his quarters. Also, the man-of-war, or ...

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• Winter-beaten

  ·adj Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. ...

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• Winter-ground

  ·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...

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• Winter-proud

  ·adj Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. ...

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• Winter-rig

  ·vt To fallow or till in winter. ...

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• Winter, William

  (b. 1836) American critic, etc. Shakespeare's England, Grey Days and Gold, Old Shrines and Ivy Brow...

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• winter cricket

  A taylor. ...

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• jacky winter

  n. the vernacular name in NewSouth Wales of the Brown Flycatcher, Microeca fascinans,a common littl...

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• winter cherry

  n. See balloon vine. ...

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• winter country

  in New Zealand (South Island),land so far unaffected by snow that stock is wintered on it. ...

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• winter-hedge

  a wooden frame (called also a CLOTHES-HORSE) for dry ing linen by the fire. York. ...

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• winter-fish

  This term generally alludes to cured cod and ling. ...

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• winter-solstice

  See capricornus. ...

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• beat to quarters

  The order for the drummer to summon every one to his respective station. ...

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• "Winter, John Strange"

  see Stannard, Mrs. Arthur. ...

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• quarters of the yards

  The space comprehended between the slings, or middle and half-way out on the yard-arms. ...

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