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Painter

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The rope which binds a ship’s boat to the ship. (Latin, panthĕra; French, pantière, a drag-net; panteur, a stretcher.)

Iʹll cut your painter for you. Iʹll send you to the right about in double quick time. If the painter is cut, of course the boat drifts away.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Paduasoy or Padësoy
Pæan
Pæan
Pagan
Pagan Works of Art
Page
Page (Mr. and Mrs.)
Pagoda
Paint
Paint the Lion (To)
Painter
Painter of the Graces
Painter of Nature
Painters and Artists
Painting
Pair Off
Paishdadian Dynasty
Paix
Pal (A)
Palaee
Paladin