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Word Meanings - CAT-HARPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

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  • TOWARD; TOWARDS
    1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • TOWARDS
    See TOWARD
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • TOWARDNESS
    Quality or state of being toward.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • SHORTCAKE
    An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
  • SHORTLY
    1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
  • SWEEPAGE
    The crop of hay got in a meadow.
  • SHORT-JOINTED
    Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
  • SHORT-DATED
    Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
  • SHORT-WAISTED
    Having a short waist.
  • SWEEPING
    Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
  • SWEEP-SAW
    A bow-saw.
  • SWEEPY
    Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
  • BRACELET
    1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. 2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.
  • TOWARDLY
    See DRYDEN
  • SHORTENING
    That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • YARDSTICK
    A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • ENSWEEP
    To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
  • COUNTER BRACE
    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
  • PEASWEEP
    The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
  • VAMBRACE
    The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
  • VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
    Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)

 

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