Rush-bearing

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• Rush

  ·noun A perfect recitation. II. Rush ·noun The merest trifle; a straw. III. Rush ·noun The act of ...

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• Rush

  The papyrus (Job 8:11). (See Bulrush.) The expression "branch and rush" in Isa. 9:14; 19:15 means "u...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• rush

  I. v. 1) Of cattle: to charge a man.Contraction for to rush-at. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sk...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Bearing

  ·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. II. Bearing ·noun Purport; meaning; intended ...

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• bearing

  An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discov...

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• Club-rush

  ·noun A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. ·see <<Bulr...

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• flowering rush

  n. name given to the rush or reed, Xyris operculata, Lab., N.O. Xyrideae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rush-broom

  n. Australian name for theindigenous shrub Viminaria denudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae. The flowers a...

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• Bearing cloth

  ·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. ...

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• Bearing rein

  ·- A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; — called in th...

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Roller bearing

  ·add. ·- A bearing containing friction rollers. ...

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• gold-bearing

  verbal adj. auriferous. 1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13: «A new line of gold-bearing quartz...

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• bearing binnacle

  A small binnacle with a single compass, usually placed before the other. In line-of-battle ships it ...

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• bearing backstays aft

  To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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• line of bearing

  A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...

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