Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Said of a ship when its position is such that it is moored midway between cross-tide and up and down stream.
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He blessed them in detail — the great glaciers, the naked rocks, the piled moraines and tumbled shale; dry upland, hidden salt-lake, age-old timber and fruitful water-shot valley one after the other, as a dying man blesses his folk; and Kim marvelled at his passion.
Kim 2003
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He blessed them in detail -- the great glaciers, the naked rocks, the piled moraines and tumbled shale; dry upland, hidden salt-lake, age-old timber and fruitful water-shot valley one after the other, as a dying man blesses his folk; and Kim marvelled at his passion.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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