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Buckle
·noun To join in marriage. II. Buckle ·noun A contorted expression, as of the face. III. Buckle ·v...

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buckle
A mast buckles when it suffers by compression, so that the fibre takes a sinuous form, and the grain...

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Turn
·noun Monthly courses; menses. II. Turn ·noun A pit sunk in some part of a drift. III. Turn ·vi To...

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Buckle Court
Out of Houndsditch. In Bishopsgate Street Without (Strype, ed 1720, I. ii. 109). No further referen...

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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...

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horse-buckle
The great whelk. ...

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Ampere turn
·add. ·- A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one am...

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Re-turn
·vt & ·vi To turn again. ...

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Sea turn
·- A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. ...

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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded. II. Turn-out ·noun The aggregate number of persons who have ...

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Turn-outs
·pl of Turn-out. ...

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Turn-sick
·adj <<Giddy>>. II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....

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to turn in
To go to bed. Originally a seaman's phrase, but now common on land. ...

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land-turn
A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries. ...

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pike-turn
See chevaux de frise. ...

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sea-turn
A tack into the offing. ...

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turn ahead!
A self-explanatory order to the engineer, in regulating the movement of a steamer. ...

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Buckle, Henry Thomas
(1821-1862) Historical writer, s. of a wealthy shipowner in London, was b. at Lee in Kent. Though n...

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half-turn ahead!
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!) ...

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turn in, to
To go to bed. ♦ To turn out. To get up. ...

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turn the glass
The order in throwing the log when the stray line is payed out. ...

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buckle-a-doing-it
set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKLE-TO. ...

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catch a turn there
Belay quickly. ...

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turn, to catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast. ...

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turn, to take or catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast. ...

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turn a turtle, to
To take the animal by seizing a flipper, and throwing him on his back, which renders him quite helpl...

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turn in the hawse
Two crosses in a cable. ...

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turn of the tide
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary. ...

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turn out the guard!
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...

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turn over men, to
To discharge them out of one ship into another. ...

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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...

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round-turn in the hawse
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...

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turn in a heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it. ...

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turn the hands up, to
To summon the entire crew on deck. ...

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bring up with a round turn
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...

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turn in a dead-eye or heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it. ...

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