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Blood and sand is slang for menstruation.
Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for brandy. Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for shandy.
crack and methamphetamine
Intimate, familiar, closely united as a hand and its glove.
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Sand and canvas is nautical slang for clean thoroughly.
saddle with the front end looking like an "A," and no swells.
Hand and fist is London Cockney rhyming slang for very drunk, intoxicated (pissed).
Fork and knife is London Cockney rhyming slang for life.Fork and knife was old London Cockney rhyming slang for wife.
A sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it. Such sails are referred to as "fore-and-aft rigged."
Knife and fork is London Cockney rhyming slang for pork.
A signal indicating that the correct spots have been applied and gunnery rounds are falling on target. The gun should now commence rapid fire.
Short for "forward". Toward the front end of the ship.
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v. t.
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
v.
The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
v. t.
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
n.
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
adv.
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
n.
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
adv.
Formerly; previously; afore.
n.
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
v. t.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
v. t.
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
v. t.
To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
adv.
With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
pl.
of Fore tooth
n.
The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
n.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
n.
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
prep.
Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
v.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
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