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Rear Admiral is British slang for a male homosexual. Rear admiral is American slang for proctologist.
The yellow button in an F/A18 cockpit that jettisons all the external stores in an emergency. If you hit it, you’ll be “ringing the admiral's doorbell†to explain why.
The rank of admiral indicates the commander-in-chief of the navy, a senior officer in command of a fleet or squadron, or of a command ashore. In ascending order of seniority, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, Admiral and Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy).
A boat at the disposal of an admiral for his or her use as transportation between a larger vessel and the shore or within a harbour.
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The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
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A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
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A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
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The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
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In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
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A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
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One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.
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The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
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of Admiralty
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The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
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An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
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An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.
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The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
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One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
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Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
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A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
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The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
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