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Sided
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Side>>.
II. Sided ·adj Having (such or so many) sides;
— used in composition; a...
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sided
The dimensions or size of timber, the contrary way to which the mould side is placed; one side sided...
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Iron
·noun Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
II. Iron ·noun Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.
III. Iron ·n...
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Iron
Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai befo...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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iron
Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison win...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Iron
is mentioned with brass as the earliest of known metals. (Genesis 4:22) The natural wealth in iron o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Bank-sided
·adj Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship;
— opposed to wall-sided.
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Many-sided
·adj Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versat...
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One-sided
·adj Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.
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Slab-sided
·adj Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.
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Three-sided
·adj Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, pedunc...
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Two-sided
·adj <<Symmetrical>>.
II. Two-sided ·adj Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.
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Wall-sided
·adj Having sides nearly perpendicular;
— said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those ha...
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lop-sided
Uneven, having one side larger or heavier than the other: boys' paper kites are often said to be lop...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crank-sided
See crank
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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lop-sided
Uneven; one side larger than the other.
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wall-sided
The sides of a ship continuing nearly perpendicular down to the surface of the water, like a wall. I...
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warm-sided
Mounting heavy metal, whether a ship or a fort.
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Bar iron
·- ·see under <<Iron>>.
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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Brand iron
·- A branding iron.
II. Brand iron ·- A trivet to set a pot on.
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Branding iron
·- An iron to brand with.
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Bridle iron
·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...
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Cast iron
·- Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace;
— used for making castings, and...
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Cast-iron
·adj Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
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Cramp iron
·- ·see <<Cramp>>, ·noun, 2.
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Grozing iron
·- A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.
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Harping iron
·- A <<Harpoon>>.
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Iron works
·- ·see under Iron, ·adj.
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Iron-cased
·adj Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
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Iron-fisted
·adj Closefisted; stingy; mean.
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Iron-gray
·noun An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color.
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Iron-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master.
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Iron-sick
·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded;
— said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten ...
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Lofting iron
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Lofter>>.
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Making-iron
·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...
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Spiegel iron
·- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per c...
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T iron
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Tee iron
·- ·see T iron, under <<T>>.
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Tue-iron
·noun ·see <<Tuyere>>.
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Iron Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Within and Castle ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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split iron
The nick-name for a smith.
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toasting iron
A sword.
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iron hand
a term of Victorian politics. It was a new Standing Order introducing what has since been called the...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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shooting iron
A common Western term for a rifle, or fowling piece.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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talking-iron
A comical name for a gun or rifle; called also a shooting-iron.
I hops out of bed, feels for my tru...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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waffle-iron
(Dutch wafelyzen.) A wafer-iron; a utensil for baking waffles.
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chinsing-iron
A caulker's tool for chinsing seams with.
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horsing-iron
An iron fixed in a withy handle, sometimes only lashed to a stick or tree-nail, and used with a beet...
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iron-bound
A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...
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iron-clad, cased, coated
, or plated vessel.
One covered entirely, or in special parts, with iron plates intended to resist...
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iron garters
A cant word for bilboes, or fetters.
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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iron-sick
The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...
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iron-sides
Formerly a sobriquet for favourite veteran men-of-war, but latterly applied to iron and iron-clad sh...
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iron wedges
Tapered iron wedges on the well-known mechanical principle, for splitting out blocks and for other s...
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iron-work
A general name for all pieces of iron, of whatever figure or size, which are used in the constructio...
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making iron
One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...
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meaking iron
The tool used by caulkers to run old oakum out of the seams before inserting new.
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pig-iron
(See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead.
"A nodding b...
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point iron
A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line.
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rasing-iron
A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh.
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reeming-iron
The larger iron used by caulkers in opening the seams.
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ripping-iron
A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bot...
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tee-iron
An instrument for drawing the lower box in the barrel of a pump. T-shaped clamp, knee, or other piec...
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traveller-iron
To a cutter's fore-sail, boom-mainsail, or spanker-boom; generally termed traveller horse. (See hors...
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seven-sided animal
A one-eyed man or woman, each having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back side, an o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Falkirk Iron Warehouse
On the south side of Thames Street in O.S. 1880. In Vintry Ward.
It occupied part of the site of Sh...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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iron-bound blocks
Those which are fitted with iron strops.
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iron-plated ships
See armour-clad.
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Mr. Hood's Iron Wharf
See Iron Wharf.
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