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Thimble
·noun Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
II. Thimble ·noun A fixed or movable ring, tube, or l...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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thimble
A watch. The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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thimble
An iron ring with a concave outer surface to contain snugly in the cavity a rope, which is spliced a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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thimble berry
The Black Raspberry, so called by many.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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thimble weed
(Lat. Rudbeckia.) A tall plant six or eight feet high, resembling the sunflower. It is one of the he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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thimble-eyes
Are thimble-shaped apertures in iron-plates where sheaves are not required; frequently used instead ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Lady's bedstraw
·- The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo)...
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Lady's bower
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
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Lady's cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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Lady's comb
·- An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely res...
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Lady's cushion
·- An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
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Lady's finger
·- The kidney vetch.
II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster.
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Lady's garters
·- Ribbon grass.
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Lady's hair
·- A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
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Lady's laces
·- A slender climbing plant; dodder.
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Lady's mantle
·- A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), ·esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with ro...
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Lady's seal
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis).
II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
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Lady's slipper
·- Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less ...
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Lady's smock
·- A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
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Lady's thumb
·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
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Lady's traces
·- ·Alt. of Ladies' tresses.
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Lady's Yard
Out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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dog-bitch-thimble
An excellent contrivance by which the topsail-sheet-block is prevented making the half cant or turn ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Lady's looking-glass
·- ·see Venus's looking-glass, under <<Venus>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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My Lady's Yard
See Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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knight of the thimble
A taylor or stay-maker.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose