bighted

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We learn from the officers who took the sick and wounded alongside of the Kearsarge that her midship section was completely protected by chain bighted from her rail to the water's edge, which was broken and indented in many places by our shot, but did not penetrate her, so that we were in fact fighting an ironclad!

Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama", 1900
Therefore, the emerging church's disdain for Bush (as well as "American Christianity") and cultural awareness has made for an effective evangelistic force on the otherwise bighted cultural landscape of Europe.

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