Ten-strike

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• Strike

  ·vi To steal money. II. Strike ·noun A puddler's stirrer. III. Strike ·noun A bushel; four pecks. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• strike

  Twenty shillings. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• strike

  A combination among workmen to obtain an advance in wages. This, as well as the verb to strike, is n...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• strike

  four pecks, or a bushel ; a strike of corn. N. ...

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

• Ten

  ·adj One more than nine; twice five. II. Ten ·noun A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X....

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• strike, to

  A ship strikes when she in any way touches the bottom. Also, to lower anything, as the ensign or top...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• strike down!

  The order to lower casks, &c., into the hold. ...

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• Ten-o'clock

  ·noun A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. ·see under <<Star>>. ...

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• Ten-pounder

  ·noun A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used ...

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• ten toes

  See bayard of ten toes. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ten-pounder

  A name given to a bony mullet-shaped fish of the West Indies. ...

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• Ten Commandments

  The popular name in this, as in so many instances,is not that of Scripture. There we have the "TEN W...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• strike soundings, to

  To gain bottom, or the first soundings, by the deep-sea lead, on coming in from sea. ...

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• Ten Bell Court

  South out of Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Site now covered by Hol...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• one in ten

  A parson: an allusion to his tithes. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• the upper ten thousand

  and contracted, THE UPPER TEN. The aristocracy; the upper circles of our large cities. A phrase inve...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Plagues, The Ten

  The occasion on which the plagues were sent is described in Exod 3-12. • The plague of blood.When M...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• lead, to strike the

  See above. Used figurativelyfor to succeed. 1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 74: «We coul...

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

• bayard of ten toes

  To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ten in the hundred

  An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose