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WORK

Volume 2 · 94 words · 1810 Edition

in the manege. To work a horse, is to exercise him at pace, trot, or gallop, and ride him at the manege. To work a horse upon volts, or head and haunches in or between two heels, is to passage him, or make him go sidewise upon parallel lines.

To WORK, in sea language, is to direct the movements of a ship, by adapting the sails to the force and direction of the wind. See SEAMANSHIP.

Carpenters, Clock, Crown, Field, Fire, Fret, Grotesque, Horn, Mosaic. See the several articles, together with FORTIFICATION and PYROTECHNY.