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• ways

  for way, distance, space. A very common vulgarism. It's only a little ways down to the village.--Ma...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ways

  Balks laid down for rolling weights along. ♦ Launching-ways. Two parallel platforms of solid timbe...

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• By-ways

  Only in Judg. 5:6 and Ps. 125:5; literally "winding or twisted roads." The margin has "crooked ways....

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bulge-ways

  Otherwise bilge-ways (which see). ...

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• ground-ways

  The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...

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• ladder-ways

  The hatchways, scuttles or other openings in the decks, wherein the ladders are placed. ...

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• launching-ways

  In ship-building, the bed of timber placed on the incline under the bottom of a ship; otherwise call...

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• loover-ways

  Battens or boards placed at a certain angle, so as to admit air, but not wet; a kind of Venetian-bli...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• water-ways

  Certain deck-planks which are wrought next to the timbers; they serve to connect the sides of a ship...

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• ways and means

  The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.