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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a scuttle cut through the knee of the head of a ship, through which the gammoning was passed.
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Knee-ded Words
In honor (?) of John
aknee, anomalogonatous, anticnemion, bainberg, bandy-jig, besagne, bight, bott, knee, breast-knee, cartilage, cnemapophysis and 155 more...
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
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chained_bear See gammoning the bowsprit. Oct 12, 2008