Thorough-brace

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• Thorough

  ·adv <<Through>>. II. Thorough ·prep <<Through>>. III. Thorough ·adv <<Thoroughly>>. IV. Thorough...

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• brace

  bracē, ēs (acc. -em), f., a Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn , acc. to Hard. blé bl...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Brace

  ·noun The mouth of a shaft. II. Brace ·noun Harness; warlike preparation. III. Brace ·noun Armor f...

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• brace

  The Brace tavern; a room in the S.E. corner of the King's Bench, where, for the convenience of priso...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• brace

  The braces are ropes belonging to all the yards of a ship; two to each yard, rove through blocks tha...

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• Thorough bass

  ·- The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; — s...

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• Thorough-lighted

  ·adj Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. ...

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• thorough churchman

  A person who goes in at one door of a church, and out at the other, without stopping. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thorough cough

  Coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same time. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thorough stitch

  To go thorough stitch; to stick at nothing; over shoes, over boots. ...

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• thorough-foots

  See thorough-puts ...

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• thorough-puts

  , or thorough-foots , are kinks or tangles in a rope; or parts of a tackle not leading fair by rea...

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• Counter brace

  ·- The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. ...

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• brace aback

  To brace the yards in, so as to lay the sails aback. ♦ To brace about, to turn the yards round for...

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• brace pendants

  Are lengths of rope, or now more generally chain, into which the yard-arm brace-blocks are spliced. ...

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• garde-brace

  Anglo-Norman for armour for the arm. ...

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• heel-brace

  A piece of iron-work applicable to the lower part of a rudder, in case of casualty to the lower pint...

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• main-brace

  A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind. ...

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• thorough go nimble

  A looseness, a violent purging. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• boom-brace pendant

  A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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• brace of shakes

  A moment: taken from the flapping of a sail. I will be with you before it shakes thrice. ...

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• counter-brace, to

  Is bracing the head-yards one way, and the after-yards another. The counter-brace is the lee-brace o...

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• thorough-good-natured wench

  One who being asked to sit down, will lie down. ...

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• splice the main brace

  In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...

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• brace up and haul aft!

  The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...

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• stretch along a brace, to

  To lay it along the decks in readiness for the men to lay hold of; called manning it. ...

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