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Found 1 hit - Term: under bare poles, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bare \bare\ b^ar, a. oe. bar, bare, as. baer; akin to d.
    g. baar, ohg. par, icel. berr, sw.  dan. bar, oslav.
   bosu^ barefoot, lith. basas; cf. skr. bh=as to shine.
   root85.
   1913 webster
   1. without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual
      covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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   2. with head uncovered; bareheaded.
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            when once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
                                                  --herbert.
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   3. without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or
      actions; open to view; exposed.
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            bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear 
                                                  --milton.
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   4. plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
      "uttering bare truth." --shak.
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   5. destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily
      furnished; -- used with of rarely with in before the
      thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
      "a bare treasury." --dryden.
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   6. threadbare; much worn.
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            it appears by their bare liveries that they live by
            your bare words.                      --shak.
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   7. mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare
      majority. "the bare necessaries of life." --addison.
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            nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. --south.
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   under bare poles naut., having no sail set.
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Results 1 - 2 of 2 found about under bare poles:

Bare >> B Words
Bare, definition of term: Bare
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Celestial Poles >> C Words
Celestial Poles, definition of term: Celestial Poles
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