Stream clock

Related Words

• Clock

  ·noun The striking of a clock. II. Clock ·noun A watch, ·esp. one that strikes. III. Clock ·vt To ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• clock

  a dor or beetle. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Stream

  ·noun A beam or ray of light. II. Stream ·vt To <<Unfurl>>. III. Stream ·vi To pour out, or emit, ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• stream

  Anglo-Saxon for flowing water, meaning especially the middle or most rapid part of a tide or current...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cable-stream, stream-cable

  A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Vase clock

  ·add. ·- A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, ·esp. one in which there is n...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Water clock

  ·- An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of w...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• clock-bird

  n. another name for the LaughingJachass. See Jackass. ...

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

• clock, settlers'

  n. i.q. clock-bird, (q.v.) ...

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

• hawkesbury clock

  See settler's clock ...

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

• settler's clock

  (also Hawkesbury Clock) n. another name for the bird called the Laughing-Jackass. See Jackass. 18...

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

• astronomical clock

  A capital bit of horology, the pendulum of which is usually compensated to sidereal time, for astron...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• clock-calm

  When not a breath of wind ruffles the water. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• clock-stars

  A name for the nautical stars, which, from their positions having been very exactly ascertained, are...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Stream gold

  ·add. ·- Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Stream line

  ·add. ·- The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Stream wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• gulf-stream

  Is especially referable to that of Mexico, the waters of which flow in a warm stream at various velo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sea-stream

  In polar parlance, is when a collection of bay-ice is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stream-anchor

  A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stream-cable

  A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stream-ice

  A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of c...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stream-lake

  One which communicates with, the sea by means of a river. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Stream of Egypt

  (Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-Arish, called also "the river of Egypt," R.V., "brook of Egypt" (Num. 34:5...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Stream Of Egypt

  occurs once in the Old Testament- (Isaiah 27:12) [RIVER OF EGYPT] RIVER OF EGYPT - 3664 ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• stream the buoy, to

  To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Clock and Wheatsheaf Alley, Court

  South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (Boyle, 1799). Former names : "Clockers Alley" (O....

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.