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Go
·noun A glass of spirits.
II. Go ·noun Act; working; operation.
III. Go ·p.p. <<Gone>>.
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the go
The mode; the fashion. 'This is all the go.'
What! Ben, my old hero, is this your renown?
Is thi...
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go!
A word sometimes given when all is ready for the launch of a vessel from the stocks.
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Out
·vt To come out with; to make known.
II. Out ·vi To come or go out; to get out or away; to become p...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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Go-between
·noun An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer;
— usually in a disparaging sense.
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Go-by
·noun A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to g...
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Go-devil
·add. ·noun A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, ·etc.
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High-go
·noun A spree; a revel.
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go, the
The dash. The mode. He is quite the go, he is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are synonim...
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go between
A pimp or bawd.
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go shop
The Queen's Head in Duke's court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where ...
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go-ashore
n.
an iron pot or cauldron, withthree iron feet, and two ears, from which it was suspended bya wire...
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the go by
To give one the go by is to deceive him; to leave him in the lurch.--Craven Glossary.
TO GO BY
To ...
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to go for
To be in favor of. Thus, 'I go for peace with Mexico,' means I am in favor of peace with Mexico, or,...
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go ahead
To proceed; to go forward. A seaman's phrase which has got
I was tired out and wanted a day to rest...
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go-cab
a vulgar oath. N.
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go ahead!
or go on!
The order to the engineer in a steamer.
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go ashores
The seamen's best dress.
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go by
stratagem
♦ To give her the go by, is to escape by deceiving.
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go down
The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.
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go slow
The order to the engineer to cut off steam without stopping the play of the engine.
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sentry go!
The order to the new sentry to proceed to the relief of the previous one.
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weather-go
The end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery weather.
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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Cut-out
·noun A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
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Diner-out
·noun One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
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Knock-out
·add. ·noun Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.
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Out-Herod
·vt To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
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Out-patient
·noun A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
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Printing out
·add. ·- A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action ...
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Punt-out
·add. ·noun A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one...
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Stopping-out
·noun A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently ...
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Straight-out
·adj Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
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Top out
·add. ·- To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top``ping-out...
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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded.
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Worn-out
·adj Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
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Wung-out
·adj Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
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hang out
The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live.
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cut out
v.
1) To separate cattle from therest of the herd in the open.
1873. Marcus Clarke, `Holiday Peak,...
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duffer out
v.
A mine is said to duffer out,when it has ceased to be productive.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advan...
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dug-out
n.
a name imported into New Zealandfrom America, but the common name for an ordinary Maori canoe.
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out-station
n. a sheep or cattle stationaway from the Head-station (q.v.).
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peg-out
v. tr.
to mark out a gold-claim underthe Mining Act, or a Free-Selection (q.v.) under theLand Act, ...
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pinch-out
v.
to thin out and disappear (ofgold-bearing). This use is given in the `Standard,' butwithout quot...
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to back out
To retreat from a difficulty, to refuse to fulfil a promise or engagement. A metaphor borrowed from ...
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to blurt out
To speak inadvertently, and without reflection.
They blush if they blurt out, are well aware
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to chalk out
To mark or trace out as with chalk.--Johnson. To chalk out a plan or proceeding, is to devise or lay...
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to clear out
To take oneself off; to depart, decamp. A vulgar expression.
This thing of man-worship I am a stran...
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to cut out
To supersede one in the affections of another. A familiar expression in common use: "Miss A was enga...
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to fizzle out
To be quenched, extinguished; to prove a failure. A favorite expression in Ohio.
The factious and r...
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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...
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to flunk out
To retire through fear; to back out.
Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you flunk out out bef...
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to let out
To begin a story or narrative. A Western expression.
Tom squared himself for a yarn, wet his lips w...
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to put out
To remove; to be off. A Western expression. To put is used in the same sense.
As my wife's father h...
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to shell out
means to hand over money.
Witness the testimony of Major Noah and others in New York, who prove tha...
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to snake out
To drag out; to haul out, as a snake from its hole. A farmer in clearing land, attaches a chain to a...
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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camp out
To encamp out of doors for the night.
The surveying party did not always retire to the hut at night...
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dragged out
Fatigued; exhausted; worn out with labor.
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dug-out
The name in the Western States for a canoe or boat, hewn or dug out of a large log. They are common ...
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fagged out
Fatigued; worn out.
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tuckered out
Tired out; fatigued. Used in New York and New England.
I guess the Queen don't do her eating very a...
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barring-out
The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the mas...
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dorz'd out
spoken of corn, beaten out by the agitation of the wind. N.
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out-catch
to overtake. North.
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out-cumbling
a stranger. Lane.
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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camp-out
See camp, to
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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry.
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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...
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falling out
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring.
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heaving out
The act of loosing or unfurling a sail; particularly applied to the staysails; or in the tops, footi...
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levelled out
Any line continued out from a given point, or intersection of an angle, in a horizontal direction.
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lie out!
The order to the men aloft to distribute themselves on the yards for loosing, reefing, or furling sa...
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look-out
Watchful attention; there is always a look-out kept from the forecastle, foretopsail-yard, or above,...
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out-board
The outside of the ship: the reverse of in-board.
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out-boats
The order to hoist out the boats.
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out-haul
, or out-hauler
A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...
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out-holling
Clearing tide-ports, canals, and channels of mud.
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out-licker
A corruption of out-rigger (which see).
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out-lier
A word which has been often used for out-rigger, but applies to outlying rocks, visible above water....
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out-oars
The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat.
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out-pensioners
Those entitled to pensions from Greenwich Hospital, but not admitted to "the house."
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out-ports
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
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out-rigger
A strong beam, of which there are several, passed through the ports of a ship, and firmly lashed at ...
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paying out
The act of slackening a cable or rope, so as to let it run freely. When a man talks grandiloquently,...
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rigging out
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar.
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selling out
An officer in the army wishing to retire from the service, may do so by disposing of his commission....
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splitting out
To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...
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stretch out!
In rowing, is the order to pull strong; to bend forward to the utmost.
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Merry-go-round
·noun Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; ·esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
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thorough go nimble
A looseness, a violent purging.
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whither-go-ye
A wife: wives being sometimes apt to question their husbands whither they are going.
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bung, to go
v.
to fail, to become bankrupt.This phrase of English school-boy slang, meaning to go off withan ex...
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple.
President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...
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to go to pot
To be destroyed, wasted, or ruined.--Johnson. Webster. Though much used, it is considered a low phra...
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as good's go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
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go-by-ground
a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person.
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go ashore, to
To land on leave.
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happy-go-lucky
A reckless indifference as to danger.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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touch-and-go
Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...
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Knock-out drops
·add. ·- Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, ·etc.
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Out-of-door
·adj Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. ·se...
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to cut out of
To cheat, deprive of.
Having been cut out of my speech in Congress, by the "previous question."--Cr...
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out of fix
Disarranged; in a state of disorder.
The week was the longest one ever was. It seemed to me that th...
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out of sorts
Out of order; disordered. Dr. Millingen, in his remarks on persons of phlegmatic temperament, says:
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blown itself out
Said of a falling gale of wind.
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bright look-out
A vigilant one.
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cut out, to
To attack and carry a vessel by a boat force; one of the most dashing and desperate services practis...
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fag-out, to
to wear out the end of a rope or end of canvas.
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fall out, to
To increase in breadth. Among soldiers and small-arm men, to quit the ranks of a company.
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heave out there!
The order to hasten men from their hammocks.
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heaving keel out
The utmost effect to be produced by careening, viz. to raise the keel out of the water in order to r...
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hove keel out
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
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in and out
A term sometimes used for the scantling of timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bol...
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line out stuff
To mark timber for dressing to shape.
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out-and-outer
An old phrase signifying thorough excellence; a man up to his duty, and able to perform it in style....
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out-earing cleat
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle.
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out-flank, to
By a longer front, to overlap the enemy's opposite line, and thus gain a chance to turn his flank.
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out of commission
A ship where officers and men are paid off, and pennant hauled down.
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out of trim
A ship not properly balanced for fast sailing, which may be by a defect in the rigging or in the sto...
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out of winding
Said of a plank or piece of timber which has a fair and even surface without any twists: the opposit...
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out or down
An exclamation of the boatswain, &c., in ordering men out of their hammocks, i.e. turn out, or your ...
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out-sail, to
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch.
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reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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ream or reem out, to
To enlarge the bore of a cannon with a special tool, so that it may take a larger projectile.
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serving out slops
Distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.
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step out, to
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c.
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out at heels, or out at elbows
In declining circumstances.
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dot and go one
To waddle: generally applied to persons who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the sea...
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go by the ground
A little short person, man or woman.
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to go the big figure
To do things on a large scale.
Why, our senators go the big figure on fried oysters and whisky punc...
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to go the whole figure
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object.
Go the whole figure for religious libe...
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to go the whole hog
A Western vulgarism, meaning to be out and out in favor of anything. A softened form of the phrase i...
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to go through the mill
A metaphor alluding to grain which has been through the mill. A Western editor observed that the mai...
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as good as go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
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joy go with thee!
a favourable wish ; sometimes used ironically. Derb.
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let go and haul!
or afore haul!
The order to haul the head-yards round by the braces when the ship casts on the oth...
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let go under foot
See under foot.
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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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fitting out a ship
The act of providing a ship with sufficient masts, sails, yards, ammunition, artillery, cordage, anc...
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haul out to leeward!
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed.
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look out for squalls
Beware; cautionary.
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sharp look-out before!
The hail for the forecastle look-out men to be extremely vigilant.
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trice up lie out!
The order to lift the studding-sail boom-ends while the top-men move out on the yards, preparatory t...
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turn out the guard!
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...
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let go by the run
, or let go by the run.
Cast off at once.
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lying out on a yard
To go out towards the yard-arms.
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laying or lying out on a yard
To go out towards the yard-arms.
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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to
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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to
To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...
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run out a warp, to
To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...
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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...
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eating the wind out of a vessel
Applies to very keen seamanship, by which the vessel, from a close study of her capabilities, steals...
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throwing a steam-engine out of gear
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever.
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running out, and running in, the lower deck guns
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...
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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry.
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the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.
Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
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