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BOAT |
Small ship |
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SWEETS |
Desserts and small Scottish tea aboard ship |
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YAWL |
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. |
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CASTLE |
A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back. |
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ARMAMENT |
All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their
equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification. |
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MURDERER |
A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks
of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. |
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BULL'S-EYE |
A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof,
floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light. |
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DECK |
The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or
compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships
have two or three decks. |
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GREAT |
Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous;
expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship,
farm, plain, distance, length. |
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LOOPHOLE |
A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in
the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may
be discharged at an enemy. |
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SCUTTLE |
A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large
enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like
hole in the side or bottom of a ship. |
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TORPEDO |
A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive
charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance,
or made self-propell... |
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CARRONADE |
A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to
throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of
breaking or smashing... |