·adj Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
II. Flemish ·noun The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
See Flemings' Church Yard. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A losing, or bad account. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
To coil down a rope concentrically in the direction of the sun, or coil of a watch-spring, beginning...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A deficit in accounts. ...
A kind of eye-splice, in which the ends are scraped down, tapered, passed oppositely, marled, and se...
A method of coiling a rope that runs freely when let go; differing from the French, and was used for...
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...