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Cutting
·adj Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. II. Cutting ·adj Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting ...

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Cutting
The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut. 14:1; 1 Kings 18...

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cutting
The adjusting of a cask or spar, or turning it round. ...

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Screw
·noun A small packet of tobacco. II. Screw ·noun An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a ...

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screw
A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a lock. To stand on the screw signifies that a door is ...

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screw
1) One who squeezes all he can out of those with whom he has any dealings; an extortioner; miser. Co...

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cutting-grass
n. Cladium psittacorum,Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae. It grows very long narrowblades whose thin rigid e...

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back-cutting
When the water-level is such that the excavation of a canal, or other channel, does not furnish eart...

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cutting down
Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...

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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry. ...

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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...

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cutting in
Making the special directions for taking the blubber off a whale, which is flinched by taking off ci...

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cutting rigging
This includes the act of measuring it. ...

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Bed screw
·- A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. II. Bed screw ·- A lo...

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Binding screw
·add. ·- A set screw used to bind parts together, ·esp. one for making a connection in an electrical...

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Breech screw
·- A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bo...

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Hindleys screw
·- A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which t...

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Screw-driver
·noun A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters...

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Temper screw
·add. ·- A set screw used for adjusting. II. Temper screw ·add. ·- A screw link, to which is attach...

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Tractor screw
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Tractor propeller. ...

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Water screw
·- A screw propeller. ...

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screw jaws
A wry-mouthed man or woman. ...

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archimedes' screw
An ingenious spiral pump for draining docks or raising water to any proposed height, the invention o...

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auxiliary screw
A vessel in which the screw is used as an auxiliary force. Such a vessel is usually fully masted for...

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barrel-screw
A powerful machine, consisting of two large poppets, or male screws, moved by levers in their heads,...

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hand-screw
A handy kind of single jack-screw. ...

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jack-screw
A small machine used to cant or lift weighty substances, and in stowing cotton or other elastic good...

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screw-dock
See gridiron. ...

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screw-propeller
A valuable substitute for the cumbersome paddle-wheels as a motive-power for steam-vessels: the Arch...

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screw-well
A hollow trunk over the screw of a steamer, for allowing the propeller to be disconnected and lifted...

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tangent-screw
A screw acting tangentially to a circle, by means of which a slow motion may be given to the vernier...

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twin-screw
A steamer fitted with two propellers and independent engines, to enable her to turn rapidly on her o...

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up screw!
The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail. ...

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cutting a feather
It is common when a ship has too broad a bow to say, "She will not cut a feather," meaning that she ...

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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...

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cutting his painter
Making off suddenly or clandestinely, or "departed this life." ...

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screw-gammoning for the bowsprit
A chain or plate fastened by a screw, to secure a vessel's bowsprit to the stem-head, allowing for t...

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