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Space
·noun A short time; a while.
II. Space ·noun Walk; track; path; course.
III. Space ·noun Place, ha...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bar
·noun A drilling or tamping rod.
II. Bar ·noun A vein or dike crossing a lode.
III. Bar ·noun A ga...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bar
Used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the sh...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bar
for bear. The common pronunciation in certain parts of the Southern and Western States.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Anchor space
·add. ·- In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3/, lying along a cushion and bisec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Crookes space
·add. ·- The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Space key
·add. ·- A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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water-space
The intervening part between the flues of a steamer's boiler.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bar iron
·- ·see under <<Iron>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Detector bar
·add. ·- A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Puddle-bar
·noun An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea-bar
·noun A <<Tern>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sway bar
·add. ·- Either of the two bars used in coupling the front and rear sleds of a logging sled; also, t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bar-jesus
Son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Papho...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bar-jona
Son of Jonah, the patronymic of Peter (Matt. 16:17; John 1:42), because his father's name was Jonas....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Spital Bar
A vacant place called the "Spytele Barre" opposite the Hospital of St. Mary Bishopsgate, 1374 (Cal. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Temple Bar
At the western end of Fleet Street on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (O.S.1848-50).
A gate...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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steel bar
A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crow-bar
A bar of iron sharpened at one end, used as a lever. In England it is called a crow; though crow-bar...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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mosquito bar
A net or curtain, which, in the Southern States and in the West Indies, is placed over the bed to pr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bar-guest
a ghost, all in white, with large saucer eyes, commonly appearing near gates or stiles, there called...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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toll-bar
a turnpike. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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parallel-bar
In the marine steam-engine, forms a connection with the pump-rods and studs along the centre line of...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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rack-bar
A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly toge...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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berth and space
In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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to bar the bubble
To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: thi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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capstan-bar pins
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Old Temple, Bar of
See Holborn Bars.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bar of a harbour
See bar of a port
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour
An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bar of the New Temple
See Temple Bar.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bar of the Old Temple
See Holborn Bars.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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radius-bar of parallel motion
An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine.
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The Sailor's Word-Book