Blowing

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• blowing

  verbal n. boasting. 1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 387: «A fine art m...

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• dry-blowing

  n. a Western Australian term ingold-mining. 1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5: «When wate...

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• blowing hard

  Said of the wind when it is strong and steady. ...

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• blowing weather

  A nautical term for a continuance of strong gales. (See gale.) ...

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• blowing the grampus

  Throwing water over a sleeper on watch. ...

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• grampus, blowing the

  Sluicing a person with water, especially practised on him who skulks or sleeps on his watch. ...

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• blowing great guns and small arms

  Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...

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