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Money under the mast
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Until the late nineteenth century, it was common practice for shipbuilders to place a coin under the heel of the mainmast before it was stepped for the first time. this was a symbolic payment to the spirits of the deep to buy their protection. the practice is believed to parallel the ancient greek custom of placing a coin in the mouth or hand of a corpse for payment of the fee charged by charon the ferryman for carrying the deceased across the river styx to elysium.
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Nineteenth, английский
Protection, английский
- Охрана; защита см. coverage
- Охрана; защита
- 1. the act of keeping a person or thing safe from harm 2. something which protects children are vaccinated as a protection against disease. protection of children act 1999 protection of children act 1999 /pr? tek??n ?v t??ldr?n kt/
- Protección
- Предохранение
- Formerly, a certificate giving exemption from impressment.
- Защита; средства защиты
- Защита; защитные меры о ~
- Process of setting equipment or anchors for safety.
- A tab within the exchange administration center (eac) that contains anti-virus/anti spam, and data loss protection.
- The process of protecting data from loss or corruption by centrally creating and maintaining replicas and shadow copies of the data. dpm is designed to provide short-term disk-based backup, to support rapid and reliable recovery of data.
- In a specialised sense, used for the rules governing the protection given to a train which stops in an unusual location or becomes derailed, to stop another train hitting it.
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Monkey cask, английский
A small container in which grog was formerly carried.
Money for old rope, английский
Old worn-out line had many shipboard uses and this phrase—meaning to get something for nothing—has nautical origins. after being picked apart, the yarn made oakum for plugging the seams of a wooden vessel; or could be used like cotton wool to make earplugs when exercising the guns; or be stashed near the heads for use as toilet paper. beyond these, old rope was useless to sailors, but some of them discovered that the surplus could be sold for cash to manufacturers of rag-paper.
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