soldering pot (so dering pot)

A small portable furnace used in soldering, especially for uniting the ends of telegraph-wires. It is A disorder affecting pigs, called in France "rouget," and in Ireland " red soldier ," from the red patches that appear on the skin in fatal cases. This affection depends on a bacillus. Lancet , 1890, II. 217. Single soldiert. See single 1. - Soldier of fortune, one who is ready to serve as a soldier wherever profit, honor, soldier pleasure, or other advantage is most to be had. --Soldiers and sailors, soldier-beetles. - Soldier's wind ( naut. ), a fair wind for going and returning. - To come the old soldier over one, to impose upon one. [Colloq.] I should think he was coming the old soldier over me, and keeping up his game. But no-he can scarce have the impudence to think of that. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, xviii. soldier (sōl'jèr), v. i. [ soldiering . Few nobles come.. Barras. is one. The reckle shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Fighter. Carlyle, French Rev., III. i. 7. 2. To bully; hector. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -3. To make a pretense or show of working, so as to be kept upon the pay-roll; shirk; feign sickne ; malinger. See soger, 2. [Colloq.] The two long lines of men attached to the ropes on the left shore stretch out ahead of us so far that it needs an opera-gla to discover whether the leaders are pulling or only soldiering . C. D. Warner, Winter on the Nile, p. 248. 4. To make temporary use of (another man's horse). Thus, a man wanting a mount catches the first horse he can, rides it to his destination, and then lets it go. [Slang, Australia.]