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BRINGING-TO

Volume 3 · 76 words · 1797 Edition

is generally used to detain a ship in any particular station, in order to wait the approach of some other that may be advancing towards her; or to retard her course occasionally near any port in the course of a voyage.

BRINGING-IN A HORSE, in the manege, the same as to say, keep down the nose of a horse that boars and tosses his nose in the wind: this is done by means of a branch.