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ock, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye. Totten.

ich is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.

verse. [Obs.] Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9.

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

urses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. -- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or…

A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

y. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.

mp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

ping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.

in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins.

A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

g them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

t the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- Fly book, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies. Kingsley. -- Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. --…

A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech. Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.