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Horse about
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Slang for to play the clown, fool around, or indulge in horseplay.
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About, английский
- Across the wind in relation to the bow. when a sailboat tacks into the wind to bring it from one side to the other, she is said to go about.
- Около, приблизительно
- To go about is to change the course of a ship by tacking. ready about, or boutship, is the order to prepare for tacking.[6
- Circularly; the situation of a ship after she has gone round, and trimmed sails on the opposite tack.—ready about! and about-ship! are orders to the ship`s company to prepare for tacking by being at their stations.
- Usually preceded by “come.” [1] to turn onto a new course or tack. [2] to move across the wind in relation to the bow. above-board: fair, open, and without concealment. there are two possible nautical derivations: [1] early trading ships would hide illegal cargo below the ship’s deck. legal goods could be placed in plain view, that is above the boards of the deck. [2] when hoping to get close to a potential victim without arousing suspicion, the majority of a heavily-armed pirate crew would crouch behind the bulwark while a few unarmed ruffians remained on deck pretending to be friendly merchant mariners. the forthright appearance of the ones who were, literally, above the boards may have given the term its onshore meaning.
- Около; вокруг
- A settings screen containing information relating to the phone, such as phone manufacturer, available storage, os version, etc.
- An item on the help menu that opens the about dialog box, which includes the copyright, licensing, and license terms for the product.
- The link group that includes links to the about hotmail webpage, the what’s new webpage, and so on.
About, английский
About, английский
About, английский
About (forma abreviada abt.), английский
About a given axis, английский
Тело, вращающееся относительно заданной оси ~ of ballast балластный слой, балластная призма ~ of shield опорное кольцо (проходческого щита)
About axis, английский
Вокруг оси
About box, английский
Информационное окно; блок уточнений above-market prices цены выше рыночных
About by rapidly rotating the, английский
Hquid flow in a spinning element. also centrifuge.
About menu item, английский
About microsoft office communicator, английский
An item on the help menu that opens the about dialog box, which includes the copyright, licensing, and license terms for communicator. abr (n)
About to die, английский
Aboutement, французский
Aboutement en dents - de - loup, французский
Aboutsledge, английский
Кувалда, ручной кузнечный молот
Horse, английский
- A large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing
- 1. attachment of sheets to deck of vessel (main-sheet horse).
- A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending about two or three feet under the yard, for the sailors to tread on while they are loosing, reefing, or furling the sails, rigging out the studding-sail booms, &c. in order to keep the horse more parallel to the yard, it is usually attached thereto at proper distances, by certain ropes called stirrups, which have an eye spliced into their lower ends, through which the horse passes. (see stirrups and foot-ropes.) also, a rope formerly fast to the fore-mast fore-shrouds, with a dead-eye to receive the spritsail-sheet-pendant, and keep the spritsail-sheets clear of the flukes of the anchor. also, the breast-rope which is made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman. also, applied to any pendant and thimble through which running-rigging was led, now commonly called a lizard. also, a thick rope, extending in a perpendicular direction near the fore or after side of a mast, for the purpose of hoisting some yard, or extending a sail thereon; when before the mast, it is used for the square-sail, whose yard is attached to the horse by means of a traveller or bull`s-eye, which slides up and down. when it is abaft the mast, it is intended for the trysail of a snow; but is seldom used in this position, except in those sloops of war which occasionally assume the appearance of snows to deceive the enemy. also, the name of the sawyer`s frame or trestle. also, the round iron bar formerly fixed to the main-rail at the head with stanchions; a fir rail is now used, and the head berthed up. also, in cutters or schooners, one horse is a stout iron bar, with a large thimble, which spans the vessel from side to side close to the deck before the fore-mast. to this the forestaysail-sheet is hauled, and traverses. the other horse is a similar bar abaft, on which the main-boom sheet traverses. also, cross-pieces on the tops of standards, on which the booms or spare-spars or boats are lashed between the fore and main masts. horses are also termed jack-stays, on which sails are hauled out, as gaff-sails. horse is a term of derision where an officer assumes the grandioso, demanding honour where honour is not his due. also, a strict disciplinarian, in nautical parlance. also, tough salt beef—salt horse.—flemish horse is the horse which has an iron thimble in one end, which goes over the iron point of the yard-arm before the studding-sail boom-iron is put on; in the other, a lashing eye, which is secured near the head earing of the top-sail. it is intended for the men at the earing in reefing, or when setting the top-gallant-studding-sails.
- [1] a foot-rope for topmen to stand on while working aloft (furling, reefing, etc.). [2] a rope to keep spritsail sheets clear of the anchor flukes. [3] a rope made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman. [4] a metal rail across the stern of a small sailing vessel to which the sheet of the nearest foreand- aft sail (mainsail in a cutter, schooner or brigantine; mizzen in a ketch) is hooked, enabling the sheet to traverse when tacking. [5] part of the caulking operation which involved forcing oakum between the planks with a caulking iron and mallet, preparatory to paying the seam. [6] to ride uneasily at anchor (see hawse). [7] a period of unpaid work (see dead horse). [8] slang for salted or corned meat (see salt horse).
- To move or raise a heavy piece of machinery or timber by using a pinchbar as a lever. also called pinch.
- A mass of country rock embedded in a vein or other type of mineral deposit.
- An equine usually over 14.2 hands in height.
Horse block, английский
A block or platform, often set near a door, on which one steps when mounting or dismounting from a horse.
Horse block. upright 1. a vertical piece of timber or stone. 2. a vertical structural member. upset 1. to shorten and thicken by hammering, as a bar of heated metal struck on the end. 2. in the region of a weld, a localized increase in volume resulting fr, английский
Horse breaker, английский
Horse chestnut, английский
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Horse marine, английский
[1] today, a person out of his or her proper or natural place. [2] formerly, a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman serving on shipboard, a rare creature at the best of times. a music hall jingle that was very popular in united states vaudeville in the late 19th century was: i’m captain jinks of the horse marines i feed my horse on corn and beans and often live beyond the means of a captain in the army. horse-up: to harden the oakum in a vessel’s seams.
Hornpipe, английский
[1] a single-reed wooden pipe of celtic homeward-bound 154
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