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• cutting his painter

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• water his hole

  A saying used when the cable is up and down, to encourage the men to heave heartily, and raise the s...

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• the cut of his jib

  The form of his profile, the cast of his countenance; as, "I knew him by the cut of his jib." A naut...

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• brought to his bearings

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• lying on his oars

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• unrove his life-line

  Departed this life. ...

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• hard at his a-se

  Close after him. ...

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• sorrow shall be his sops

  He shall repent this. Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians in Ireland. ...

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• too big for his breeches

  is said of a man who is above his business; arrogant; haughty. Gentlemen, I was one of the first to...

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• happy man be his dole!

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• bearings, to bring to his

  Used in conversation for "to bring to reason." To bring an unruly subject to his senses, to know he ...

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• every man to his station

  See station. ...

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• Jacob and his Twelve Sons Inn

  East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677). The site is now occupie...

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• staggering bob, with his yellow pumps

  A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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• england expects every man will do his duty

  This is introduced into a naval vocabulary, not as wanting explanation, but that in recording the mo...

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