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Dirt
·noun Meanness; sordidness. II. Dirt ·noun In placer mining, earth, gravel, ·etc., before washing. ...

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dirt
n. In Australia, any alluvial deposit inwhich gold is found; properly Wash-dirt. The word isused in...

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Pay
·noun Satisfaction; content. II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...

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to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...

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pay
A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...

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thunder-dirt
n. In New Zealand, a gelatinouscovering of a fungus ( Ileodictyon cibarium) formerlyeaten by the Mao...

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to cut dirt
To run; to go fast. A vulgar expression, probably derived from the quick motion of a horse or carria...

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dirt-gabard
A large ballast-lighter. ...

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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. ...

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Pay Cerps
·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...

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Pay rock
·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

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Pay streak
·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...

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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...

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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...

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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...

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full pay
The stipend allowed when on actual service. ...

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growing pay
That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. ...

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pay, to
[from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...

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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope. ♦ Pay down. Send che...

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retired pay
A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay. ...

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sea-pay
That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship. ...

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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head. ...

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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money. ...

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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to ...

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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...

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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...

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pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

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