Queen truss

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• Truss

  ·noun A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. II. Truss ·noun To bind or pack close; to make int...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• truss

  The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and are bowsed taut when...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Queen

  ·noun The wife of a king. II. Queen ·vi To act the part of a queen. III. Queen ·noun A playing car...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Queen

  No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings o...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Queen

  This title is properly applied to the queen-mother, since in an Oriental household it is not the wif...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• truss-hoops

  Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, b...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• truss-parrel

  That part of a rope-truss which goes round the yard. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• truss-pendant

  That part of a rope-truss into which the truss-tackle blocks are seized. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• truss-pieces

  The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• truss-tackle

  A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Queen olive

  ·add. ·- Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Queen-post

  ·noun One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. ·see King-...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Elizabeth, Queen

  (1533-1603) Was one of the scholar-women of her time, being versed in Latin, Greek, French, and Ita...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Queen Square

  West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 159a, to Bartholomew Close. In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Queen Street

  South out of Cheapside at No.69, across Cannon Street to Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Vi...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• queen dick

  To the tune of the life and death of Queen Dick. That happened in the reign of Queen Dick; i.e., nev...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queen street

  A mart governed by his wife, is said to live in Queen street, or at the sign of the Queen's Head. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• truss up, to

  To brail up a sail suddenly; to toss up a bunt. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Queen of heaven

  (Jer. 7:18; 44:17, 25), the moon, worshipped by the Assyrians as the receptive power in nature. ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Little Queen Street

  See Paved Alley, Leadenhall, and Queen's Colledge Passage Square. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• New Queen Street

  See Queen Street, Cheapside. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Queen Street Place

  South out of Upper Thames Street, at No.68, to Southwark Bridge. In Vintry Ward (P.O. Directory). F...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Queen Victoria Street.-

  West from the Mansion House to Blackfriars Bridge (P.O. Directory). In Cheap, Cordwainer, Bread Stre...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Queen Of Heaven

  (Jeremiah 7:18; 45:17,18,19,25) is the moon Ashtaroth or Astarte to whom worshiped as Hebrew women o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Statue of Queen Anne

  Facing the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the Church-yard (O.S. 1880). Architect, F. Bird. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Weld Court, Queen Street

  See Well Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• queen anne's free gift

  A sum of money formerly granted to surgeons annually, in addition to their monthly twopences from ea...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Queen Street, Royal Mint Street

  South out of Royal Mint Street to Little Tower Hill (W. Stow, 1722-O.S. 1894-6). Removed for the co...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.