·pl of Turn-out.
A gentleman of three outs. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun Monthly courses; menses. II. Turn ·noun A pit sunk in some part of a drift. III. Turn ·vi To...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·- A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one am...
·vt & ·vi To turn again. ...
·- A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. ...
·noun A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp. II. Turn-buck...
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded. II. Turn-out ·noun The aggregate number of persons who have ...
·adj <<Giddy>>. II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....
To go to bed. Originally a seaman's phrase, but now common on land. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See chevaux de frise. ...
A tack into the offing. ...
A self-explanatory order to the engineer, in regulating the movement of a steamer. ...
That is, without money, without wit, and without manners: some add another out, i.e. without credit....
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!) ...
To go to bed. ♦ To turn out. To get up. ...
The order in throwing the log when the stray line is payed out. ...
Belay quickly. ...
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast. ...
To take the animal by seizing a flipper, and throwing him on his back, which renders him quite helpl...
Two crosses in a cable. ...
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary. ...
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...
To discharge them out of one ship into another. ...
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it. ...
To summon the entire crew on deck. ...
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...