Knee-deep

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• Knee

  ·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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• knee

  Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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• Deep

  ·superl Muddy; boggy; sandy; — said of roads. II. Deep ·adv To a great depth; with depth; far down...

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• Deep

  Used to denote (1) the grave or the abyss (Rom. 10:7; Luke 8:31); (2) the deepest part of the sea (P...

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• deep

  A word figuratively applied to the ocean. On the coast of Germany, to the northward of Friesland, it...

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• Knee jerk

  ·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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• Knee-crooking

  ·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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• Knee-high

  ·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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• Knock-knee

  ·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• red-knee

  n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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• dagger-knee

  A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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• gammon-knee

  A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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• heel-knee

  The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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• knee-timber

  That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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• stem-knee

  In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• Breast-deep

  ·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...

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• Deep-fet

  ·adj Deeply fetched or drawn. ...

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• Deep-laid

  ·adj Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans. ...

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• Deep-mouthed

  ·adj Having a loud and sonorous voice. ...

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• Deep-read

  ·adj Profoundly book- learned. ...

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• Deep-sea

  ·adj Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (·i.e., a line to take sou...

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• Deep-waisted

  ·adj Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the de...

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• Skin-deep

  ·adj Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. ...

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• Deep Ditch

  The western boundary of Bethlehem Hospital as set out in Simon Fitz Mary's Charter of Foundation-to ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• deep-one

  A thorough-paced rogue, a sly designing fellow: in opposition to a shallow or foolish one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spit-deep

  the depth of a spade only. Norf. and Suff. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• deep-waist

  That part of the open skids between the main and fore drifts in men-of-war. It also relates to the r...

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• hanging standard-knee

  A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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• deep yellow-wood

  n. Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...

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• deep-sea line

  Usually a strong and water-laid line. It is used with a lead of 28 lbs., and adapted to find bottom ...

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• knee of the head

  A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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