Wind signal

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• Signal

  ·noun A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign. II. Signal ·vt To communicate by signals; as...

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• Wind

  ·noun Power of respiration; breath. II. Wind ·noun The <<Dotterel>>. III. Wind ·noun Air impregnat...

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• wind

  To raise the wind; to procure mony. ...

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• wind

  an alley or narrow street. Scotch. ...

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• wind

  [precisely the Anglo-Saxon word]. A stream or current of air which may be felt. The horizon being di...

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• Block signal

  ·add. ·- One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block s...

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• Frost signal

  ·add. ·- A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather ...

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• Weather signal

  ·add. ·- Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weath...

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• private signal

  Understood by captains having the key, but totally incomprehensible to other persons. ...

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• signal-man

  The yeoman of the signals; a first-class petty officer in the navy. ...

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• signal-officer

  In a repeating frigate, a signal-midshipman; in a flag-ship, a flag-lieutenant. ...

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• storm-signal

  The hoisting of a danger-flag. Also, Fitzroy's drum and cone, which show the direction of the expect...

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• warning-signal

  Hoisted to warn vessels not to pass a bar. Also, to warrant higher pay to watermen plying between Po...

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• Broken wind

  ·- The <<Heaves>>. ...

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• Down-wind

  ·add. ·adv With the wind. ...

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• Thick wind

  ·- A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the sign...

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• Up-wind

  ·add. ·adv Against the wind. ...

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• Volcanic wind

  ·add. ·- A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection current...

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• Wind-break

  ·noun A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. II. Wind-break ·vt To br...

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• Wind-broken

  ·adj Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air c...

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• Wind-fertilized

  ·adj Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind. ...

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• Wind-plant

  ·noun A <<Windflower>>. ...

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• Wind-rode

  ·adj Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; — said of a vesse...

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• Wind-shaken

  ·add. ·adj Shaken by the wind;. II. Wind-shaken ·add. ·adj affected by wind shake, or anemosis (whi...

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• Wind-sucker

  ·noun A horse given to wind-sucking. II. Wind-sucker ·noun The <<Kestrel>>. ...

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• Wind-sucking

  ·noun A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; — usually associated with cr...

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• Wind-up

  ·add. ·noun Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end. ...

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• East wind

  The wind coming from the east (Job 27:21; Isa. 27:8, etc.). Blight caused by this wind, "thin ears" ...

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• wind-mill

  The fundament. She has no fortune but her mills; i.e. she has nothing but her **** and a*se. ...

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• hot wind

  n. an Australian meteorologicalphenomenon. See quotations, especially 1879, A. R. Wallace.The phras...

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• to wind up

  To close up; to give the quietus to an antagonist in a debate; to effectually demolish. John Bell, ...

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• wind-berry

  a bilberry or whortleberry. N. ...

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• wind-row

  to wind-row, to rake the mown grass into rows, called wind-rows. Norf. and Suff. ...

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• wind-gauge

  See anemometer ...

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• beating wind

  That which requires the ship to make her way by tacks; a baffling or contrary wind. ...

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• bottom-wind

  A phenomenon that occurs on the lakes in the north of England, especially Derwent Water, which is of...

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• east wind

  This, in the British seas, is generally attended with a hazy atmosphere, and is so ungenial as to co...

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• eddy-wind

  That which is beat back, or returns, from a sail, bluff hill, or anything which impedes its passage;...

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• fall-wind

  A sudden gust. ...

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• foul wind

  That which prevents a ship from laying her course. ...

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• gall-wind

  See wind-gall. ...

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• head-wind

  A breeze blowing from the direction of the ship's intended course. Thus, if a ship is bound N.E. a N...

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• helm-wind

  A singular meteorological phenomenon which occurs in the north of England. Besides special places in...

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• high wind

  See heavy gale. ...

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• leading-wind

  Wind abeam or quartering; more particularly a free or fair wind, and is used in contradistinction to...

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• north wind

  This wind in the British seas is dry and cold, and generally ushers in fair weather and clear skies....

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• quarter-wind

  Blowing upon a vessel's quarter, abaft the main-shrouds. ...

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• soldier's wind

  One which serves either way; allowing a passage to be made without much nautical ability. ...

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• south-wind

  A mild wind in the British seas with frequent fogs; it generally brings rain or damp weather. ...

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• traverse-wind

  A wind which sets right in to any harbour, and prevents the departure of vessels. ...

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• west wind

  This and its collateral, the S.W., prevail nearly three-fourths of the year in the British seas, and...

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• wild-wind

  An old term for whirlwind. ...

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• wind-bands

  Long clouds supposed to indicate bad weather. ...

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• wind-bound

  Detained at an anchorage by contrary winds. ...

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• wind-fall

  A violent gust of wind rushing from coast-ranges and mountains to the sea. Also, some piece of good ...

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• wind-gage

  See anemometer. ...

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• wind-gall

  A luminous halo on the edge of a distant cloud, where there is rain, usually seen in the wind's eye,...

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• wind-rode

  A ship is wind-rode when the wind overcomes an opposite tidal force, and she rides head to wind. ...

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• wind-sail

  A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...

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• wind-taut

  A vessel at anchor, heeling over to the force of the wind. ...

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• wind-tight

  A cask or vessel to contain water is said to be wind-tight and water-tight. ...

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• young wind

  The commencement of the land or sea breeze. ...

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• signal of distress

  When a ship is in imminent danger, she hoists her national flag upside down, and, if she is armed, f...

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• Wind Mill Alley

  West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677). Site now occupied by offices and business...

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• breath of wind

  All but a dead calm. ...

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• by the wind

  Is when a ship sails as nearly to the direction of the wind as possible. (See full and by.) In gener...

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• capful of wind

  A light flaw, which suddenly careens a vessel and passes off. ...

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• fret of wind

  A squally flaw. ...

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• gale of wind

  Implies what on shore is called a storm, more particularly termed a hard gale or strong gale; number...

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• haul her wind

  Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind. ♦ Haul your wind, or haul to the wind, signif...

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• haul my wind

  An expression when an individual is going upon a new line of action. To avoid a quarrel or difficult...

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• head to wind

  The situation of a ship or boat when her head is pointed directly to windward. The term is particula...

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• in the wind

  The state of a vessel when thrown with her head into the wind, but not quite all in the wind (see al...

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• on a wind

  Synonymous with on a bowline. ...

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• shift of wind

  Implies that it varies, or has changed in its direction. ...

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• slant of wind

  An air of which advantage may be taken. ...

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• slope of wind

  A breeze favouring a long tack near to the required course, and which may be expected to veer to fai...

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• under the wind

  So situated to leeward of something as not to feel the wind. ...

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• wind away, to

  To steer through narrow channels. ...

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• betwixt wind and water

  About the line of load immersion of the ship's hull; or that part of the vessel which is at the surf...

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• close the wind, to

  To haul to it. ♦ Close upon a tack or bowline, or close by a wind, is when the wind is on either b...

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• cloth in the wind

  Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy. ...

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• dead upon a wind

  Braced sharp up and bowlines hauled. ...

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• down wind, down sea

  A proverbial expression among seamen between the tropics, where the sea is soon raised by the wind, ...

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• eye of the wind

  The direction to windward from whence it blows. (See wind's-eye.) ...

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• gain the wind, to

  To arrive on the weather-side of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward. ...

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• raise the wind, to

  To make an exertion; to cast about for funds. ...

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• sheet in the wind

  Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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• wind and water line

  That part of a ship lying at the surface of the water which is alternately wet and dry by the motion...

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• wind a boat, to

  To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.) ...

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• wind a ship or boat, to

  To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.) ...

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• wind in the teeth

  Dead against a ship. ...

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• hold a good wind, to

  To have weatherly qualities. ...

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• pick up a wind, to

  Traverses made by oceanic voyagers; to run from one trade or prevalent wind to another, with as litt...

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• shake in the wind, to

  To bring a vessel's head so near the wind, when close-hauled, as to shiver the sails. ...

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• three sheets in the wind

  Unsteady from drink. ...

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• whistle for the wind, to

  A superstitious practice among old seamen, who are equally scrupulous to avoid whistling during a he...

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• set of the wind and current

  See direction of the wind and current ...

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• direction or set of the wind and current

  These are opposite terms; the direction of the winds and waves being named from the point of the com...

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• shaking a cloth in the wind

  In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated. ...

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• which way does the wind lie?

  What is the matter? ...

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• eating the wind out of a vessel

  Applies to very keen seamanship, by which the vessel, from a close study of her capabilities, steals...

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• st of the of the wind and current

  See direction of the wind and current ...

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• busy as the devil in a gale of wind

  Fidgety restlessness, or double diligence in a bad cause; the imp being supposed to be mischievous i...

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