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A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies. They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke.…

e one part of nature. Sir M. Hale. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view And narrower scrutiny. Milton.

The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.

strong silk it produces and for the great disparity in the sizes of the sexes. -- Silk thrower, Silk throwster, one who twists or spins silk, and prepares it for weaving. Brande & C. -- Silk tree (Bot.), an Asiatic leguminous tree (Albizzia Julibrissin) with finely bipinnate leaves, and large flat pods; -- so called…

(Naut.), that part of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.stern wheeler.

canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar.

A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.

The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.

One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. Sir T. More.

One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the effect being t…

One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.

A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.

think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors. -- Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine. -- Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure. -- Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines. -- Wine of opium (Pharm.),…