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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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monkey. 1. The name of a small coastal trading vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, single masted with a square sail and, occasionally, a
topsail set above it. They ranged up to about 40–50 tons
burthen.
2. A name also given to a small wooden cask, wider at the bottom than at the top, in which
grog was carried to the seamen's messes in British Navy ships after issue from the grog-tub, and which it was common practice to
bleed en route. The name lingered on as a description of the metal mess kettles in which grog was later carried.
3. The name given to a form of marine steam reciprocating engine where two engines, either single cylinder or
compound, were used together in tandem on the same
propeller shaft. They were installed on opposite sides of the crankshaft so that when one engine pulled, the other pushed.
See also
steam propulsion.
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From monkey to man?
Magazine article from: New African; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...white man the white monkey? Last August, BBC2...Uhlenbroek was about monkeys. She had spent perhaps...include the white monkeys of the Amazon Forest...endangered of all monkey species were excluded...humans? The African monkeys are exhibited in...not a single white monkey of the ...
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Monkeys on the move as a decorating motif
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/24/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...decorative use of the monkey, says Wayne Adler, owner of the monkey-laden William Wayne Store in Manhattan. "Monkeys have been a very strong...French "singe," monkey. It was the French...first popularized monkeys as a decorative element...
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Monkeys on Their Backs; For Many Japanese, Primates' Appeal Wears Off as Crops Are Carried Away
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Kagoshima home two months ago. "For a second, we looked at each other. Then I screamed, 'Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!' " The population of macaque monkeys has been swelling in this country since World War II, when Japan began a dramatic shift...
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Monkeys take over the paper
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 2/10/2004; ; 657 words
; ...filing papers. * National monkey coverage. "Monkeys under scrutiny" Tensions...place they meet." * Monkeys in Money "Monkey impact dwindling" For the...pocketbooks with them." * Monkeys in Life "Monkey takes over humor column...
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MONKEYS' BUSINESS IS HELPING.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 8/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...picks it up and says, ''Monkeys.'' Monkey financial secretary Bill...first signed up with the Monkeys in 1942. Merle is not the eldest Monkey - that would be Ben Barkley...says. ''He was a live monkey when the Monkeys were incorporated. He...
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Monkeys on a hot tin roof
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...tail. That's your monkey, displaced by development...new circumstances. The monkeys are aping our behaviour...tail does not stop the monkey from thinking it is a...beautiful creature. "The monkeys are watching us," says...Sakiman who has seen the monkey admiring itself in the...
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Monkeys' Movements Guide Research into Paralysis at Duke University.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...the electrodes in monkeys' brains. When a monkey's brain sent...exactly as the monkey's arm during...At first, the monkeys did not play the...almost as if the monkeys assimilated a third...augmenting the monkey's ability to...
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Monkey business: Producer dreams of film starring Angels mascot.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...took one look at the Anaheim Angels Rally Monkey phenomenon and saw a film star. It was...register for a trademark for the Rally Monkey, the team's unofficial and unlicensed...ideas, Cano, 53, watched the Rally Monkey become a full-blown phenomenon after...
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Monkeys demand equitable exchanges.(Unfair Trade)
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/20/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...species, Brosnan trained brown capuchin monkeys to use rocks as tokens of exchange. She gave a monkey a token and then held out her hand...basic rocks-for-food economy, monkeys exchanged their tokens for food in...
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MONKEYS CAUSING HAVOC IN JAPAN.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 12/12/2002; 700+ words
; ...Kagoshima home two months ago. "For a second, we looked at each other. Then I screamed, 'Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!' " The population of macaque monkeys has been swelling in this country since World War II, when Japan began a dramatic shift...
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monkey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...they are to the New World monkeys; the two monkey groups probably evolved separately...monkeys, include the sacred monkeys of India. The snub-nosed monkey of China and the proboscis monkey of Borneo are langurlike monkeys with peculiar snouts. The...
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Monkeys
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the term New World monkey includes the marmoset...Cebidae. New World monkeys often have a prehensile...mangabeys. Most monkeys are forest dwellers...The only European monkey is the Babary...latitudes than any other monkey. New World monkeys are found from southern...
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Spider Monkeys
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...six species of spider monkeys: 1. Central American spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi...all species of spider monkey, the monkeys ” underparts...territories. Whenever spider monkey territories overlap, the monkeys somehow readjust them...
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Rhesus monkeys
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...ago, the rhesus monkey population in...million. Rhesus monkeys are used extensively...export of rhesus monkeys, increased conservation...India. The rhesus monkey population in...faced langur monkey to scare away the rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys...
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New World Monkeys
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...monkeys ( Alouatta ), spider monkeys ( Ateles ), the woolly spider monkey ( Brachyteles arachnoides ), and woolly monkeys ( Lagothrix ). Cebid monkeys...during the day. The cebid monkeys vary in size from the squirrel monkey ( Saimiri sciureus ) with...
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