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The Sailor's Word Book

 

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G . .B. The initials for Grand Cross of the most honourable and Military Order of the Bath.
GAB . A notch on the eccentric rod of a steam-engine for fitting a pin in the gab-lever to break the connection with the slide-valves. (_See_ GABBE.)
GABARRE . Originally a river lighter; now a French store-ship.
GABART, OR GABBERT . A flat vessel with a long hatchway, used in canals and rivers.
GABBE . An old but vulgar term for the mouth.--_Gift of the gab_, or _glib-gabbet_, facility and recklessness of assertion.
GABBOK . A voracious dog-fish which infests the herring fisheries in St. George's Channel.
GABELLE [Fr.] . An excise tribute.
GABERDINE . An old name for a loose felt cloak or mantle.
GABERT . A Scotch lighter. (_See_ GABART.)
GABIONADE . A parapet of gabions hastily thrown up.
 
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Negritos : n. pl. A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
 
The Sailor's Word Book by William Henry Smyth edited by Edward Belcher, published originally in 1867 by Blackie & Son
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