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Bearing
·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
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bearing
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discov...
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Cloth
·noun The dress; raiment. [Obs.] ·see <<Clothes>>.
II. Cloth ·noun The distinctive dress of any pro...
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Bearing rein
·- A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up;
— called in th...
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Bearing ring
·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...
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Roller bearing
·add. ·- A bearing containing friction rollers.
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Rush-bearing
·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...
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gold-bearing
verbal adj.
auriferous.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13:
«A new line of gold-bearing quartz...
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bearing binnacle
A small binnacle with a single compass, usually placed before the other. In line-of-battle ships it ...
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Carborundum cloth
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Carborundum paper.
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Cheese cloth
·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
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Goring cloth
·noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
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Gunny cloth
·- A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus C...
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Henrietta cloth
·add. ·- A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.
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Lady's cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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Match-cloth
·noun A coarse cloth.
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Thibet cloth
·- A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
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Top-cloth
·noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect ...
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Cloth Fair
East out of West Smithfield at No. 59 to Kiughorn Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Withou...
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Cloth Street
South out of
First mention: O.S. 188-51.
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Cloth Yard
Out of Dunning's Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in th...
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cloth market
He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed.
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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buntline-cloth
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope ...
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goring-cloth
See goring
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table-cloth
A fleecy-looking cloud which sometimes covers the "table" or flat top of Table Mountain, at the Cape...
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bearing backstays aft
To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...
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line of bearing
A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Cloth Workers' Court
North out of White Friers, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
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devil's table-cloth
See table-cloth.
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The Back Alley, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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Back Streate, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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King Street, Cloth Fair
See Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair.
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Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair
South out of Cloth Fair, at No. 63, to Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without.
Renamed 1885....
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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