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Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

• Weather-fend
  To defend from the weather; to shelter.
• ROLLINGPIN
  A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
• Pitcherfuls
  of Pitcherful
• WEATHERFEND
  To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.
• Roughen
  To make rough.
• Roughsetter
  A mason who builds rough stonework.
• Standel
  A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.
• Vessel
  A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
• Weatherglass
  An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
• ROLLYPOLY
  A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a.
• Pitcherful
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• WEATHERMAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction
• Rough-footed
  Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove.
• Roughshod
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
• Stander
  One who stands.
• Vesselfuls
  of Vesselful
• Weatherliness
  The quality of being weatherly.
• Ability
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

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