[privateer] Teazer was an American privateer schooner in the War of 1812 that the British captured and destroyed in January 1813. She is best known as the predecessor of the ill-fated schooner Young Teazer. A small schooner based out of New York, Teazer was one of the first American privateers to put to sea in the war. On her first voyage s...
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• (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
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Tea'zer noun [ Corrupted from French
tiser to feed a fire.] The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
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HMS Teazer was a British Troubridge Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1943. HMS Teazer was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and was armed with four 4.7 inch guns; four 2 pdr pom-pom guns; four 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in two quadruple arrangem...
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A rope used as a punitive device.
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