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torpedo
torpēdo, ĭnis, f. [torpeo], stiffness, numbness, inflexibility, sluggishness, torpidity. I Lit. (ra...

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torpedo
torpēdō inis, f torpeo, sluggishness, numbness , S., Ta.— The torpedo, cramp-fish, electric ray . ...

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Torpedo
·add. ·noun An automobile with a torpedo body. II. Torpedo ·vt to destroy by, or subject to the act...

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torpedo
n. a fish, well known elsewhere, andalso called elsewhere, the Numb-fish and Crampfish. For the Aus...

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torpedo
A cartilaginous fish allied to the rays, furnished with electrical organs, by means of which it is a...

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Stern
·noun The black tern. II. Stern ·vt The hinder part of anything. III. Stern ·vt Fig.: The post of ...

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stern
The after-part of a ship, ending in the taffarel above and the counters below. ♦ By the stern. The...

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Torpedo body
·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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Torpedo boom
·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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Torpedo catcher
·add. ·- A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. ...

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Torpedo shell
·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...

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Torpedo station
·add. ·- A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repair...

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Torpedo tube
·add. ·- A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a sm...

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Whitehead torpedo
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Whitehead>>. ...

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Pink stern
·- ·see <<Chebacco>>, and 1st Pink. ...

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Stern-wheel
·adj Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer. ...

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Stern-wheeler
·noun A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. ...

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Tunnel stern
·add. ·- A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed i...

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pink-stern
(French, pinque.) A vessel with a narrow stern; hence all vessels so formed are called pink-sterned....

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chase-stern
The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...

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false stern
An additional stern fixed on the main one, to increase the length and improve the appearance of a ve...

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lute-stern
Synonymous with pink-stern. ...

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round stern
The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...

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segmental stern
See round stern. ...

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stern-all
A term amongst whalers, meaning to pull the boat stern foremost, to back off after having entered an...

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stern-board
This term is familiarly known to seamen as tacking by misadventure in stays; or purposely, as a seam...

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stern-chasers
The guns which fire directly aft. ...

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stern-davits
Pieces of iron or timber projecting from the stern, with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, for ...

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stern-fast
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...

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stern-frame
That strong and ornamental union based on the stern-post, transom, and fashion-pieces. ...

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stern-knee
Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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stern-ladder
Made of ropes with wooden steps, for getting in and out of the boats astern. ...

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stern-ports
The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...

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stern-post
The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder. In steam-ships, where a...

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stern-sheets
That part of a boat between the stern and the aftmost thwart, furnished with seats for passengers. ...

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stern-son
A knee-piece of oak-timber, worked on the after dead-wood; the fore-end is scarphed into the kelson,...

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stern-walk
The old galleries formerly used to line-of-battle ships. ...

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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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Torpedo-boat destroyer
·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...

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by the stern
When the ship draws more water abaft than forward. (See by the head.) ...

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false stern-post
A piece bolted to the after-edge of the main stern-post to improve steerage, and protect it should t...

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inner stern-post
See inner post ...

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long stern-timbers
See stern-timbers. ...

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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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rails of the stern
(See stern-rails.) ...

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