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Speeks [with Shipwrights]
Speeks [with Shipwrights] great
and long iron-nails with flat heads, of different lengths, and some ragged, so
that they cannot be drawn out again, used in many parts of a ship for fastening
planks, &c.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Snow *
To Spitch-Cock an Eel