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A smooth bore gun that is used to launch a rubber-tipped projectile with a light line attached. It is used for passing a line to another ship, or ashore, at greater distances than a line may be thrown by hand.
Junior officer living or lounge space. Historically, the midshipmen and junior lieutenants actually lived on the gun deck, usually behind a partition in an area which was known as the gunroom.
The opening in the side of the ship or in a turret through which the gun fires or protrudes.
 Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man, wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, “Hark, did you not hear a gun? But now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.â€
Gunman (Hammett is responsible for this use; see note Catamite “1. (p) A male oral sodomist, or passive pederast. 2. A brat. 3. (By extension) An informer; a weasel; an unscrupulous person.†(Underworld) Note Yiddish “ganzl†= gosling
Bending over the barrel of a gun for punitive beating with a cane or cat.
Gunman with a hint toward being a reckless loose cannon or young homosexual (insult)
Torpedo, part of trainman's equipment; it is placed on the track as a signal to the engineer. Also the injector on the locomotive that forces water from tank to boiler. To gun means to control air-brake system from rear of train
When in port, and with the crew restricted to the ship for any extended period of time, wives and ladies of easy virtue often were allowed to live aboard along with the crew. Infrequently, but not uncommonly, children were born aboard, and a convenient place for this was between guns on the gun deck.
An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun and receive a thrashing.
Literally, having cargo loaded as high as the ship's rail. Also used to refer to someone that is very drunk. Also used as "loaded to the gunnels" eg. "Bloggins returned to the ship and he was loaded to the gunnels."
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In the alley is American slang for serve as a side dish.
ur out. see ya!
Intoxicated
Zummut is Dorset slang for something.
n pron. “drafts” two-player board game where each player gets sixteen pieces and takes the opponent’s by jumping over them diagonally. I mean the pieces jump diagonally, not the players. Though it’s an interesting point as to whether two people could really jump over one another diagonally, given that the vector is relative to the positions of them both. In the U.S. the game is known as “checkers.”
Highway.
If Stupid Were a Crime
Shiralee is Australian slang for tramp's bundle of personal belongings.
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Wild camomile.
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A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale).
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A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
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The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
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An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.
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Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
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Act of firing a gun; a shot.
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The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
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The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
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The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
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Alt. of Gunsmith ing
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The art or business of a gunsmith.
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