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Flambeau

together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick burning substance anciently perhaps wax in modern times pitch or the like hence any torch

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A torch made of tow and pitch or the like

VerbarSaucisson

A long and slender pipe or bag made of cloth well pitched or of leather filled with powder and used to communicate fire to mines caissons bomb chests etc

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Poonga oil

A kind of oil used in India for lamps and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree Pongamia glabra

Quoit

A flattened ring shaped piece of iron to be pitched at a fixed object in play hence any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose as a

Roller coaster

in which open cars coast by gravity over a long winding track in a closed circuit with steep pitches and ascents and in some cases loops in which the cars are briefly upside down typically the cars

Free fight

is one where both sides mean to fight from the start, go out to fight and there is pitched battle. The question of who attacks and who defends in such event is wholly immaterial, Abdul Hamid v.

Sea legs

at sea that is ability to stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea

Seasickness

The peculiar sickness characterized by nausea and prostration which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel

Bothagium, or Boothag

Bothagium, or Boothag, customary dues paid to the lord of a manor or soil, for the pitching or standing of booths in fairs or markets, Paroch. Antiq. 680.

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