Can buoy

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• Can

  ·vt To preserve by putting in sealed cans. II. Can ·noun A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liqui...

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• can

  A tin vessel used by sailors to drink out of. ...

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• Buoy

  ·vi To <<Float>>; to rise like a buoy. II. Buoy ·vt To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking...

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• buoy

  A sort of close cask, or block of wood, fastened by a rope to the anchor, to show its situation afte...

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• Can hook

  ·- A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by...

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• Water can

  ·- Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; — so called from the shape of the se...

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• billy-can

  n. a variation of the above, moreused by townsmen than bushmen. 1892. `The Australasian,' April 9, ...

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• can-bodies

  The old term for anchor-buoys, now can-buoys. ...

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• can-buoys

  Are in the form of a cone, and therefore would countenance the term cone-buoys. They are floated ove...

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• can-hooks

  They are used to sling a cask by the chimes, or ends of its staves, and are formed by reeving the tw...

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• bell-buoy

  A large can-buoy on which is placed, in wicker-work, a bell, which is sounded by the heaving and set...

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• buoy-rope

  The rope which attaches the buoy to the anchor, which should always be of sufficient strength to lif...

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• cone-buoy

  See can-buoys. ...

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• nun-buoy

  A buoy made of staves, somewhat in the form of a double cone; large in the middle, and tapering rapi...

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• buoy-rope knot

  Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...

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• tapping a buoy

  Clearing it of the water which has entered it by leakage, and would otherwise prevent its watching. ...

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• stream the buoy, to

  To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...

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• any how you can fix it

  At any rate whatever. ...

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• veer a buoy in a ship's wake, to

  To slack out a rope to which a buoy has been attached, and let it go astern, for the purpose of brin...

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