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1. ap(p)areil n.

Additional spellings: appareil
59 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Furnishings, trappings, accoutrements (as of a household, a room, an altar, etc.); a piece of such; magnificence or extravagance; (b) naut. equipment belonging to a boat; rigging; also, the crew…

2. bonet n.

21 quotations in 2 senses
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A kind of cap or bonnet worn by men and women; bonet cap.

3. brail n.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Naut. One of the ropes fastened to the edge of a sail for haling up its bunt in furling; brail rop; brail puli, the pulley through which such a rope runs; (b) the belly or rump of an animal; brail

4. calfatēr n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Workman who calks ships.

5. calfat-ern n.

Additional spellings: calfatern
1 quotation in 1 sense
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Naut. A calking iron.

6. calfating ger.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Calking (of a ship).

7. ches-treu n.

Additional spellings: chestreu
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. One of two small pieces of timber, perforated to receive the tack of a sail [see quot. 1625 below and quot. 1769 in OD under chesstree].

8. colẹ̄r n.

61 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An ornamental border at the neck of a garment, a collar; coler hem, the hem at the neck of a garment or its collar; (b) a cape or wrap worn over the shoulders.

9. dring n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Some kind of sling arrangement needed for the yards.

10. fōr(e-stai n.

Additional spellings: fore-stai
4 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A rope used for bracing the foremast.

11. kivil n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A pin for fastening something; a tile pin; -- also coll.; (b) naut. a pin or wedge for fastening parts of a ship's rigging.

12. lī̆st(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: liste
74 quotations in 5 senses
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Border, edge, rim; hem; band, stripe.

13. lọ̄f n.(4)

28 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. (a) A spar holding out and down the windward tack of a square sail while going into the wind; wenden (turnen) lof, to change course; also fig.; lof shete, a line attached to the lof [cp. quot…

14. pautener n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A framework of timber used to support the mast of a ship.

15. plat adj.

24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Flat, even, smooth, having low relief; level, not inclined or sloped; plat sword, a sword turned so as to strike with the flat; as plat a cake, flat as a pancake; plat fet, smooth, well-formed…

16. pulī n.

34 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A mechanical device consisting of a wheel or sheave fixed to a revolving axle or carried freely on a stationary one, round which a rope is wound, used for pulling or raising a weight; -- also…

17. raile n.

23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A rail; a horizontal bar; raile tre, a curtain rod; (b) a rail used as or as part of a fence or barrier, or in building; a barrier, an embankment; a railing on a stairway [quot.: 1453-5]; (c) naut

18. seisen v.

138 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To take possession; take possession of (a country, city, land, goods, etc.); seize (sth.) by force; capture (sth.); also fig.; also, take legal possession of (sth.), confiscate; seisen on, usurp…

19. seisī̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: seisine
51 quotations in 3 senses
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Law: (a) Seizin, possession in freehold, freq. indicated or established by actual or physical possession; also, the right to something [quot.: c1436, 2nd]; also, the ceremony at which seizin is…

20. spūchǒur n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A wooden vessel for carrying or bailing water, a bailer.