What is the meaning of FOOTBOARD YARD-MASTER. Phrases containing FOOTBOARD YARD-MASTER
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The step on the rear and front ends of switch or freight engines. Many casualties were caused in the "good old days" by switchmen missing these steps on dark slippery nights
Bladder of lard is London Cockney rhyming slang for a playing card, Great War bingo card. Bladder of lard is London Cockney rhyming slang for New Scotland Yard.
100 dollars; a total of 100 dollars. "Yo, I dropped 3 yards on that phone bill!"Â
Yard is slang for the penis.Yard is American slang for one thousand.Yard is American slang for one hundred dollars.Yard is Jamaican slang for Jamaica.
Home. e.g "I'm tired - I'm going yard."
System of tracks for making up trains or storing cars. (Boomer's version: "System of rust surrounded y fence and inhabited by a dumb bunch of natives who will not let a train in or out.") Also called garden and ield. Yard geese are yard switchmen. Y.M. is yardmaster. Yard goat is switching engine
Bread and lard is London Cockney rhyming slang for hard.
hard work, training.
Yard on is Black American slang for to be unfaithful.
Conductor who acts as yardmaster in a small yard
to talk "haven' a yarn"
Six months hard was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a bingo card.
The yard is British slang for Scotland Yard.
Straw yard was old slang for a night shelter for the homeless.
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n.
See Yawd.
superl.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
n.
See Footboard (a).
v. t.
To harden; to make hard.
v. i.
A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
n.
A yard or place for tilting.
superl.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
superl.
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
n.
See 1st & 2d Yard.
v. t.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
v. t.
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
a. & adv.
Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
n.
To smear with lard or fat.
n.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
n.
A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
superl.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
n.
An indicator card. See under Indicator.
adv.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
superl.
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
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