JUNK
\d͡ʒˈʌŋk], \dʒˈʌŋk], \dʒ_ˈʌ_ŋ_k]\
Definitions of JUNK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
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Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
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Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
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A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
By Oddity Software
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A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
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Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
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Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
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A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
By Noah Webster.
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Short pieces of old cable, rope, etc., used for making mats, oakum, etc.; hard salt ship beef; a Chinese flat-bottomed vessel with a square bow and high stern, having the mast in one piece; old metal, paper, glass, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A Chinese vessel, having three masts.
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Pieces of old cordage, used for making mats, etc., and when picked to pieces forming oakum for the seams of ships: salt meat supplied to vessels for long voyages, so called because it becomes as hard as old rope.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Latin] Pieces of old cable or old cordage ; - a thick piece ; a chunk ; - hard and dry salted beef – the name given by sailors to the mess beef ; - a flat – bottomed Chinese vessel, with three masts, and a short bowsprit running from the starboard bow.