Chimney-breast

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• Chimney-piece

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• Chimney Alley

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• Breast-deep

  ·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...

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• Breast-high

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• Broken breast

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• breast fleet

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• breast, to

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• breast-backstays

  They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...

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• breast-beams

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• breast-fast

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• breast-gaskets

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• breast-hooks

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• breast-rail

  The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...

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• breast-rope

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• breast-work

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• wolf in the breast

  An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...

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