Ahead

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• ahead

  Originally a sea-term. Farther onward than another.--Johnson. This word has now become very common...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ahead

  A term especially referable to any object farther onward, or immediately before the ship, or in the ...

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• go ahead

  To proceed; to go forward. A seaman's phrase which has got I was tired out and wanted a day to rest...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• go ahead!

  or go on! The order to the engineer in a steamer. ...

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• heaving ahead

  Is the act of advancing or drawing a ship forwards by heaving on a cable or rope made fast to some f...

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• turn ahead!

  A self-explanatory order to the engineer, in regulating the movement of a steamer. ...

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• forge ahead, to

  To shoot ahead, as in coming to an anchor a motion or moving forwards. A vessel forges ahead when ho...

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• half-turn ahead!

  An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!) ...

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