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Port
·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
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port
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Half
·adj Part; side; behalf.
II. Half ·vt To halve. [Obs.] ·see <<Halve>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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Port-royalist
·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...
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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...
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Two-port
·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...
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bridle-port
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
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cinque-port
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances.
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closed port
One interdicted.
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convenient port
A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...
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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery.
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helm-port
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...
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light-port
A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...
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port arms!
The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...
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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
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port-charges
, or harbour-dues.
Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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port-flange
In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...
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port-glaive
A sword-bearer.
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port-last
, or portoise.
Synonymous with gunwale.
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port-men
A name in old times for the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports; the burgesses of Ipswich are also so ca...
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port-mote
A court held in haven towns or ports.
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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...
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port-pendants
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...
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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
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port-reeve
A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times.
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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended.
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port-sale
A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour.
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port-sashes
Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins.
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port-shackles
The rings to the ports.
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port-sills
In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...
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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
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raft-port
A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...
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sally-port
An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...
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sea-port
A haven near the sea, not situated up a river.
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Half blood
·noun A person so related to another.
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Half nelson
·add. ·- A hold in which one arm is thrust under the corresponding arm of the opponent, generally be...
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Half tone
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of Half-tone.
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Half-blooded
·adj Degenerate; mean.
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Half-boot
·noun A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. ·see <<Cocker>>, and Congress boot, under <<C...
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Half-bound
·noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
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Half-bred
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-breed
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-brother
·noun A brother by one parent, but not by both.
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Half-caste
·noun One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Als...
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Half-clammed
·adj Half-filled.
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Half-cracked
·adj Half-demented; half-witted.
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Half-deck
·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>.
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Half-decked
·adj Partially decked.
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Half-faced
·adj Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
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Half-fish
·noun A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
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Half-hatched
·adj Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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Half-heard
·adj Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
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Half-hearted
·adj Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
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Half-hourly
·adj Done or happening at intervals of half an <<Hour>>.
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Half-learned
·adj Imperfectly learned.
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Half-length
·adj Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-mast
·noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mou...
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Half-moon
·noun The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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Half-pike
·noun A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a s...
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Half-ray
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Half-read
·adj Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
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Half-sighted
·adj Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
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Half-sister
·noun A sister by one parent only.
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Half-strained
·adj Half-bred; imperfect.
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Half-sword
·noun Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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Half-timbered
·adj Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry;
— said of buildings.
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Half-tone
·add. ·noun A half step.
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Half-tounue
·noun A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
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Half-wit
·noun A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
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Half-witted
·adj Weak in intellect; silly.
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Half-yearly
·adj Two in a year; semiannual.
— ·adv Twice in a year; semiannually.
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half cock
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half-beams
Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...
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half-cock
To go off at half-cock is an unexpected discharge of a fire-arm; hurried conduct without due prepara...
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half-davit
Otherwise fish-davit (which see).
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half-deck
A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...
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half-flood
See flood.
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half-galley
See galley.
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half-hitch
Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...
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half-man
A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man.
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half-mast
The lowering a flag in respect for the death of an officer.
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half-moon
An old form of outwork somewhat similar to the ravelin, originally placed before the salients of bas...
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half-pike
An iron spike fixed on a short ashen staff, used to repel the assault of boarders, and hence frequen...
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half-point
A subdivision of the compass card, equal to 5° 37′ of the circle.
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half-ports
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
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half-sea
The old term for mid-channel.
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half-speed!
An order in steam navigation to reduce the speed. (See full speed!)
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half-timbers
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
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half-top
The mode of making ships' tops in two pieces, which are afterwards secured as a whole by what are te...
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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native.
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Port-Jackson Fig
n. See fig-tree.
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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder.
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Port-Jackson Thrush
n.
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Port-Macquarie Pine
See pine.
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port egmont fowls
See egmont
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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...
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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech.
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Half seas over
·- Half drunk.
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Half Moon Alley
1) Out of Jewin Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
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Half Moon Court
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Half Moon Passage
1) West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 157, to Bartholomew close, eastern end in Aldersgate Ward, ...
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Half Moon Street
West out of Bishopsgate Street Without. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-O.S. 1880).
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Half Moon, Aldersgate
A tenement so called in parish of St. Bartholomew Smithfield, adjoining shops in parish of St. Botol...
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Half Moon, Cheapside
Messuage so called in Westchepe in parish of Blessed Mary Colechurch, 23 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 4...
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Half Paved Court
East out of Dorset Street to Bridewell Precinct, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 188...
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half seas over
Almost drunk.
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half seas over
Intoxicated; drunk. A sailor's expression.
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half-breadth plan
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan.
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half-drowned land
Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see).
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half-minute glass
See glass.
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half seas over
Nearly intoxicated. This term was used by Swift.
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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.)
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half-topsails, under
Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon.
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half-turn ahead!
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!)
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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.)
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three half-hitches are more than a king's yacht wants
An exclamatory remark to a green hand, meaning that two are enough.
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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour
An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...
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captain of the port
The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...
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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly.
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put into port, to
To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather.
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riding a port-last
With lower yards on the gunwales.
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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
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Half Moon Alley, Bethlem
South out of Bethlem to Petty France. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
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Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
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Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside
See Half Moon Alley.
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Half Moon, Bishopsgate Without
Described in a Release of 1543 as "le Signe de le hulfe Mone" belonging to St. Michael's Church, Cor...
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Half Moon, East Smithfield
Messuage called the Half Moon, in East Smithfield, in parish of St. Botolph Without Aldgate (Strype,...
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tack and half-tack
Working to windward, or along shore, by long and short boards, or legs, alternately.
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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
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Port of London Authority's Warehouses
At the northern boundary of Portsoken Ward and extending into Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directo...
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any port in a storm
signifies contentment with whatever may betide.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Alley
North out of Half Moon Alley, Little Moorfields (Dodsley, 1761-Lockie, 1816). In Cripplegate Ward Wi...
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Street
South out of Half Moon Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-O.S. 1848-51).
Site now oc...
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Half Moon Alley, Court, Bishopsgate
See Flying Horse Yard.
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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly.
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half-breadth of the rising
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...
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half-laughs and purser's grins
Hypocritical and satirical sneers.
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minute and half-minute glasses
See glass.
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Ball Alley, Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
Out of Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Boyle, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
Not nam...
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Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...
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Half Moon Court, Aldgate High Street
South out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of the ward. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M...
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White Horse and Half Moon Stables
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746).
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