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Depth – Decoys

Depth

amidships

Depth

stem

Derby

I mile.

Dublin

1 miles.

Durham

I mile 300 yards.

Dig

To plunge the blade unnecessarily deep and thereby to miss the beginning and cut the finish owing to the extra labour employed in attending to the blade.

Doggett's Coat and Badge

The bequest of an actor, Thomas Doggett, in the time of George I. of a badge and livery to be rowed for by young watermen out of their time within the year past, every summer, in commemoration of the accession of the House of Hanover.

Definition

i. 42

Dry-Fly School

i. 47

Dab

ii. 66

Dace

ii. 67

Decoys

ii. 75, 75

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