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)