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Boulders
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
- Stones worn and rounded by the attrition of the waves of the sea: the word, on the authority of hunter, was considered a technical term in the fourteenth century, as appears in a warrant of john of gaunt for the repair of pontefract castle—“de peres, appeles buldres, a n`re dit chastel come nous semblerez resonables pur la defense de meisme.”
- Rock fragments greater than 200mm in size.
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Fourteenth, английский
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Bouleponges, английский
A drink to which many of the deaths of europeans in india were ascribed; but in bernier`s “travels,” in the train of aurungzebe, in 1664, we are informed that “bouleponge is a beverage made of arrack, sugar, lemon-juice, and a little muscadine.” probably a corruption of bowls of punch. (see punch.)
Bouilli, английский
Termed by seamen bully-beef; disliked because all the substance is boiled away to enrich the cook`s grease-tub, and the meat is useless as food; rejected even by dogs. in one ship of war it produced mutiny; vide adams` account of the bounty
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