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101Unbent — Unbend Un*bend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Unbent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Unbending}.] [1st pref. un + bend.] 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. [1913 Webster] 2. A remit from a strain or from… …
102unbend — verb (unbent; bending) Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to free from flexure ; make or allow to become straight < unbend a bow > 2. to cause (as the mind) to relax 3. a. to unfasten (as a sail) from a spar or stay b …
103USS Yorktown (CV-5) — The third USS|Yorktown|CV 5, lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers of World War II, was sunk at the Battle of Midway.Early career Yorktown was laid down on 21 May 1934 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock… …
104Fire ship — A fire ship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire and steered (or, where possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create panic… …
105USS Sea Devil (SS-400) — For other vessels of this name, see Sea devil. USS Sea Devil (SS 400), a Balao class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea devil ( Manta birostria ), the largest of all rays, noted for power and endurance …
106CSS Selma (1856) — CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Selma was a coastwise packet built at Mobile, Alabama for the Mobile Mail Line in 1856. Little doubt now remains that she was originally named Florida . As… …
107USCGC Seneca (1908) — had an interesting and varied history. Fighting submarines in World War I, making the International Ice Patrol, capturing rum runners in the Prohibition era, saving lives from Greenland to Puerto Rico, from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Mexico,… …
108USS Mariner (SP-1136) — was a wooden hulled tugboat for the United States Navy in World War I. She had previously been the Jack T. Scully of the Neptune Line of New York before her acquisition by the Navy. She foundered and sank in a gale on 26 February 1918 while part… …
109cut the painter — to die Like a boat cast loose on the water and used of old seafarers. Cut adrift, of the same tendency, is probably obsolete. Cut your cable should logically imply suicide but it is used of natural death, usually in old age …
110unbend — v. a. 1. Straighten, make straight. 2. Relax, slacken, remit, recreate, take recreation, be diverted, be amused. 3. (Naut.) Unfasten, untie. 4. (Naut.) Cast loose, untie …
