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Square |
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Yards are squared when they are horizontal and at right angles
with the keel, squaring by the lifts makes them horizontal and by the braces, makes them at
right angles with the vessel`s line, also the proper term for the length of yards, a vessel |
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Arm |
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Yard-Arm, the extremity of a yard, also the lower part of an anchor, crossing the
shank and terminating in the flukes |
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Flotsam |
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Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat
after a ship has sunk, floating refuse or debris |
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Worm |
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Worm and parcel with the lay, turn and serve the other way, organic standing rigging was wormed, parcelled,
and served in areas under great stress or potential friction: bobstays, stay and shroud eyes, pendants,
sometimes the entire forward shroud |
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Planking |
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wood boards that cover the frames outside
the hull |
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Quartering sea |
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Winds and waves on a boat`s quarter |
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Apparent
wind |
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Wind felt on a vessel underway |
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Chain-locker |
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Where the chain cable are kept |
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Boatswain`s locker |
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Where
tools and small stuff for working upon rigging are kept,Log A line with a piece of board, called the log-chip,
attached to it, wound upon a reel, and used for ascertaining the ship`s rate of sailing |
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Backwinded |
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when the wind hits the leeward side of the sails |
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Flare |
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When the vessel`s sides go out from the
perpendicular, in opposition to falling-home or tumbling-in |
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Foul hawse |
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When the two
cables are crossed or twisted, outside the stem |
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Crutch |
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When the sail is not set, a
knee or piece of knee-timber, placed inside of a vessel, to secure the heels of the cant-timbers abaft, also
the chock upon which the spanker-boom rests |
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Cambered |
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When the floor
of a vessel is higher at the middle than towards the stem and stern |
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A-peek |
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When the cable is hove taut so as to bring the
vessel nearly over her anchor, the yards are a-peek when they are topped up by contrary lifts |
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Foul
anchor |
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When the cable has a turn round the anchor |
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Bilged |
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When the bilge is
broken in |
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Stowed in bulk |
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When goods are
stowed loose, instead of being stowed in casks or bags, see Break bulk |
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All in the wind |
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When all the sails are shaking |
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All-aback |
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When all the sails are aback |
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To break
shear |
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When a vessel, at anchor, in tending, is forced the wrong way by the wind or current, so
that she does not lie so well for keeping herself clear of her anchor |
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Pay-off |
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When a vessel`s head falls off from the wind, to pay, to cover
over with tar or pitch |
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Open hawse |
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When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables |
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Bound - wind-bound |
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When a vessel is
kept in port by a head wind |
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Flowing sheet |
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When a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews
eased off |
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Stern-board |
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When a vessel goes stern foremost |
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Send |
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When a ship`s head or stern pitches suddenly and violently into the trough of the
sea |
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Flat-aback |
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When a sail is blown with it`s after
surface against the mast |
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Even keel |
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When a boat is floating on its designed
waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel |
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Founder |
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When a
vessel fills with water and sinks |
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An-end |
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When
a mast is perpendicular to the deck |
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Landlubber |
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What you are if you`re not a seaman |
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Leeway |
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What a vessel loses by
drifting to leeward, when sailing close-hauled with all sail set, a vessel should make no leeway, if the
topgallant sails are furled, it is customary to allow one point, under close-reefed topsails, two
points when under |
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Quay |
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Wharf
used to discharge cargo |
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Weigh - to haul up |
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Weigh the anchor |
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Box-hauling |
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Wearing a vessel by
backing the head sails |
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Chapelling |
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Wearing a ship round,
when taken aback, without bracing the head yards |
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Bilge water |
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Water which settles in the
bilge |
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Spoondrift |
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Water swept from the tops of the waves by the violence of the wind in a
tempest, and driven along before it, covering the surface of the sea |
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Net tonnage |
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Vessels measurement of cargo carrying
capacity |
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Underway |
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Vessel in motion,
when not moored, at anchor, or aground |
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Underway |
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Vessel in motion,
when not moored, at anchor, or aground |
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Vhf |
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very high frequency radio |
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Bright work |
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Varnished woodwork |
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V-berth |
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usually the forward berth of the boat, located in the bow |
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Raddle |
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Used to decribe material used to make flat
gaskets for securing boats when hoisted on to the davits |
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Bobstays |
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Used to confine the bowsprit down to the stem or cutwater |
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Port |
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Used instead of larboard, to port the helm, is to put it to the larboard |
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Square knot |
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Used for tying two ropes
together |
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Stanchions |
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Upright posts of wood or iron, placed so as to support the beams of a
vessel, also upright pieces of timber, placed at intervals along the sides of a vessel, to support the bulwarks
and rail, and reaching down to the bends, by the side of the timb |
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Aloft |
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Up above, up
the mast or in the rigging |
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Coaking |
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Uniting
pieces of spar by means of tabular projections, formed by cutting away the solid of one piece into a hollow, so
as to make a projection in the other, in such a manner that they may correctly fit, the butts preventing the
pieces from dr |
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Fathom |
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Unit of water depth equivalent to 6 feet |
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Ledges |
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Underwater rock ridges and mountains that rise near the surface of the sea |
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Bank |
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Underwater plateau
that rises up from the ocean floor, creating shallow water where fish feed |
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Trestle-trees |
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Two strong pieces of timber, placed horizontally and fore-and-aft on
opposite sides of a mast-head, to support the cross-trees and top, and for the fid of the mast above to rest
upon |
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Shears |
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Two or more spars, raised at angles and lashed together near their upper ends,
used for taking in masts |
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Elbow |
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Two crosses in a hawse |
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Chain shot |
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Two cannon balls connected together with either
chaian or an iron bar, was used to destroy the rigging other other ships, Chain shot was first used in the 30
Years War, it was introduced by Gustavus Adolfus to be shot at a low, flat trajectory for |
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Chafing gear |
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Tubing or cloth wrapping used to protect a line from chafing on a rough surface |
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Jib |
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Triangular foresail in front of the foremast, flying jib sets outside of
the jib and the jib-o`-jib outside of that |
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Horse |
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Traveler-Metal or rope traveler to sheet a
sail |
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Abaft |
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Towards the stern of a
vessel |
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Aft |
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Toward the stern of the boat |
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Aft |
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Toward the rear, or transom,
of a ship |
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Abaft |
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Toward the rear (stern) of the boat |
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Forward |
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Toward the bow or
stem |
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Forward |
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Toward the bow of the boat |
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Windward |
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Toward the
direction from which the wind is coming, opposite of leeward |
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Outboard |
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Toward or beyond the boats sides, a
detachable engine mounted on a boats stern |
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Aground |
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Touching the bottom |
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Aground |
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Touching or fast to the bottom of any body of water on
or onto the shore |
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Serve |
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To wind small stuff, as rope-yarns,
spunyarn, round a rope, to keep it from chafing, it is wound and hove round taut by a serving-board or
mallet |
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Marl |
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To wind or
twist a small line or rope round another |
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Woold |
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To wind a piece of rope round a spar, or other thing |
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Tend |
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To watch a vessel at anchor at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and some sail if
necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cables |
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Feather to feather an oar in rowing |
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To turn the blade horizontally with the top
aft as it comes out of the water |
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Capsize |
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To turn over |
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To brace a yard |
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To turn it about horizontally |
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Pitchpole |
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To turn end over end in very rough seas |
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Slue |
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To turn anything round or over |
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Gimblet |
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To turn an anchor round by its stock, to turn anything round on its
end |
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Ware - wear |
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To turn a vessel round, so that, from having the wind on one side,
you bring it upon the other, carrying her stern round by the wind, in tacking, the same result is produced by
carrying a vessel`s head round by the wind |
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Heel |
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To tip to one side |
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Tide |
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To tide up or down a river or harbor, is to work up or down with a fair tide and head wind or calm, coming
to anchor when the tide turns |
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Chinse |
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To thrust oakum into seams with a small iron |
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Jettison |
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To throw overboard |
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Toss |
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To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in
the boat, with its blade forward |
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Jettison |
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to throw
overboard |
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Point |
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To take the end of a rope and work it over with knittles, see
Reef-Points |
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Weather-bitt |
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To take an additional turn with a cable round the
windlass-end |
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Stay |
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To tack a vessel, or put her about, so that the wind, from being
on one side, is brought upon the other, round the vessel`s head, see Tack, Wear, to stay a mast, is to incline
it forward or aft, or to one side or the other, by the stays and backst |
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Yaw |
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To swing off course, as
when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea |
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Hold
water |
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To stop the progress of a boat by keeping the oar-blades in the water |
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Thrum |
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To stick short strands of yarn through a mat or piece of
canvass, to make a rough surface |
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Navigate |
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To steer or manage a
ship, to sail or voyage over water |
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Luff up |
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To steer
the boat more into the wind, thereby causing the sails to flap or luff |
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Start |
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To start
a cask, is to open it |
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Off-and-on |
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To stand on different tacks towards and from the land |
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Hail |
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To speak or call to
another vessel, or to men in a different part of a ship |
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Ease |
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To slacken or relieve tension on a line |
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To come up a rope or tackle |
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To slack it off |
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Forereach |
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To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays |
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To draw a jib |
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To shift it over the stay to
leeward, when it is aback |
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Spill |
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To shake the wind out of a sail by bracing it so that
the wind may strike its leech and shiver it |
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Shiver |
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To shake the wind out of a sail by
bracing it so that the wind strikes upon the leech |
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Set |
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To set up rigging, is to
tauten it by tackles, the seizings are then put on afresh |
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Sling |
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To set a cask, spar, gun, or other
article, in ropes, so as to put on a tackle and hoist or lower it |
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Rack |
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To seize two ropes together, with
cross-turns, also a fair-leader for running rigging |
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Moor |
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To secure by two
anchors |
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Drive |
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To scud before a gale, or to drift in a
current |
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To weather |
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To sail to windward of some ship, bank, or
head-land |
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To lay aboard |
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To sail alongside an
enemy vessel with the intention of boarding |
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Sag |
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To sag to leeward, is to drift off bodily to leeward |
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Spoon |
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To run befor a gale
(scud) |
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Chafe |
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To rub the surface of a rope or spar |
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Furl |
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To roll a sail up snugly on
a yard or boom, and secure it |
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Right |
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To right the
helm, is to put it amidships |
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Freshen |
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To relieve a rope, by moving its place, as to
freshen the nip of a stay is to shift it, so as to prevent its chafing through, to freshen ballast is to alter
its position |
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Dub |
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To reduce the end of a
timber |
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Reef |
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To reduce the
sail area |
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Reef |
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To reduce a sail by taking in upon its head, if a square sail, and its foot, if
a fore-and-aft sail, a reef is all of the sail that is comprehended between the head of the sail and the first
reef-band, or between two reef-bands |
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Fish |
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To raise the flukes of an anchor upon the gunwale, also to strengthen
a spar when sprung or weakened, by putting in or fastening on another piece |
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Trip |
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To raise an anchor clear of the bottom |
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Mouse |
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To put turns of rope yarn or spunyarn round the end
of a hook and its standing part, when it is hooked to anything, so as to prevent it slipping out |
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To bear up |
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To put the helm up, keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to
leeward |
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Heave-to |
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To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, see Lie-to |
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Tack |
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To put a
ship about, so that from having the wind on one side, you bring it round on the other by the way of her head,
the opposite of wearing |
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Rattle down rigging |
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To put
ratlines upon rigging, it is still called rattling down, though they are now rattled up beginning at the
lowest |
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Bowse |
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To pull upon a tackle |
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To shore |
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To prop up |
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Splice |
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To permanently join two ropes by tucking their strands alternately
over and under each other |
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Cast |
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To pay a vessel`s head off, in getting under way, on the tack she is to sail upon |
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Reeve |
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To pass the end
of a rope through a block, or any aperture |
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Frap |
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To pass ropes round a sail to keep it from blowing
loose, also to draw ropes round a vessel which is weakened, to keep her together |
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Render |
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To pass a rope through a place, a rope is said to render or not, according as it goes freely through any
place |
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Keel-haul |
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To pass a person backwards and forwards under a ship`s keel, for certain
offences |
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Snake |
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To pass
small stuff across a seizing, with marling hitches at the outer turns |
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Stow |
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To pack or store away, especially to pack in an orderly, compact
manner |
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Capsize |
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To overturn |
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Overhaul |
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To overhaul a tackle, is to let go the fall and pull on
the leading parts so as to separate the blocks, to overhaul a rope is generally to pull a part through a block
so as to make slack, to overhaul rigging is to examine it |
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Light |
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To move or lift anything along as to Light out to windward! That
is, haul the sail over to windward, the light sails are all above the topsails, also the studdingsails and
flying jib |
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Warp |
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To move a vessel from one place to another
by means of a rope made fast to some fixed object, or to a kedge, a warp is a rope used for warping, if the
warp is bent to a kedge, which is let go, and the vessel is hove ahead by the capstan or windlas |
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Mend |
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To mend service, is to add more to it |
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To bend a sail |
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To make it fast to the yard |
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To bend a cable |
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To make it fast to the anchor |
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To bear-a-hand |
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To make haste |
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Secure |
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To make fast |
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Bend |
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To make fast |
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Secure |
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To make fast |
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Strike |
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To lower a sail or colors |
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To break ground |
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To lift the anchor from the bottom |
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To heel |
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To lie over on one side |
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Ride at anchor |
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To lie at anchor, also to bend or bear down by main strength and
weight as, to ride down the main tack |
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By the run |
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To let go by the run, is to let go altogether, instead of slacking off |
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Slip |
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To let a cable go and stand out
to sea |
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Cast off |
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To let
go |
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To brace up |
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To lay the yard fore fore-and-aft |
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To
brace in |
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To lay it nearer square |
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Coil |
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To lay a rope down in circular turns, a coil is a quantity of rope laid up in that manner |
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Coil |
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To lay a line down in circular
turns |
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Water-boards - weather-boards |
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To keep out the waves or spray of the sea |
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To steer small |
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To keep a vessel on course with only small movements of the
steering gear |
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Splice |
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To join two ropes together by interweaving their strands |
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Scarf |
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To join two pieces of timber at their
ends by shaving them down and placing them over-lapping |
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Marry |
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To join ropes together by a worming over
both |
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Becalm |
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To intercept the wind, a vessel or highland to windward is said to
becalm another, so one sail becalms another |
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To sculll |
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To impel a boat by one oar at the stern |
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House |
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To house a mast, is to lower it almost half its length, and
secure it by lashing its heel to the mast below |
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Parbuckle |
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To hoist or lower a spar or cask by
single ropes passed round it |
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Unmoor |
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To heave up one anchor so that the vessel may ride at a single anchor,
see Moor |
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Heave short |
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To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her
anchor |
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Careen |
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To heave a vessel down upon her side by purchases upon the
masts, to lie over, when sailing on the wind |
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To clew up |
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To haul up the clew of a
sail |
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Round up |
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To haul up on a tackle |
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Trice |
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To haul up by means of a
rope |
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Round in |
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To haul in on a rope,
especially a weather-brace |
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Hand |
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To hand a sail is to furl it |
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Jibe |
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To go from one tack to the other when running with the wind coming over the stern |
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Heave in stays |
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To go about in tacking |
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Sound |
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To get
the depth of water by a lead and line, an iron-sounding rod, marked with a scale of feet and inches, sounds the
pumps |
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Forge |
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To forge ahead, to shoot ahead, as in
coming to anchor, after the sails are furled, see Forereach |
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Caulk |
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To fill wooden vessel seams with oakum and cotton
using caulking irons and hammer |
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Swamp |
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To fill with water, but not settle to the bottom |
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Pay out |
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To feed line over the side of the boat, hand over
hand |
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Broach-to |
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To fall off so much, when going free, as to bring the wind
round on the other quarter and take the sails aback |
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Miss-stays |
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To fail of going about from one tack to
another |
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Pay out |
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To ease out a line, or let it run
in a controlled manner |
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Douse |
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To drop a sail quickly |
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Scud |
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To drive before a gale, with no sail, or only enough to keep
the vessel ahead of the sea, also low, thin clouds that fly swiftly before the wind |
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Work up |
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To draw the yarns from
old rigging and make them into spunyarn, foxes, sennit, also, a phrase for keeping a crew constantly at work
upon needless matters, and in all weathers, and beyond their usual hours, for punishment |
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Tow |
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To draw a vessel along by means of a rope |
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Fother, or fodder |
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To draw a sail, filled with oakum, under a
vessel`s bottom, in order to stop a leak |
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Sweep |
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To drag the bottom for an anchor, also large oars used in small vessels to force
them ahead |
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To scuttle |
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To cut or
bore holes in a vessel to make her sink |
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Steer |
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To control the direction of a vessel via
the steering gear |
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Fleet |
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To come up a tackle and draw the blocks apart, for another
pull, after they have been hauled two-blocks |
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Lay |
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To come or to go as, Lay aloft! Lay forward! Lay aft!
Also the direction which the strands of a rope are twisted as from left to right, or from right to
left |
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French-fake |
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To coil a rope with each fake outside of the other, beginning in
the middle, if there are to be riding fakes, they begin outside and go in and so on, this is called a Flemish
coil |
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Cock-bill |
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To cock-bill a yard or anchor, see A-Cock-Bill |
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Greave |
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To clean a
ship`s bottom by burning |
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Snub |
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To check a rope suddenly |
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Unbend |
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To cast off or untie, see Bend |
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Portage |
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To carry
goods or boat between two navigatible points |
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Swift |
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To bring two shrouds or stays close together by ropes |
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Club-haul |
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To bring a vessel`s head round on the other tack, by letting go the lee anchor and cutting or slipping the
cable |
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Heave to |
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To bring a vessel up in a position where it will maintain little or no
headway, usually with the bow into the wind or nearly so |
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Carry-away |
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To break a spar or part a rope |
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Part |
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To break a rope |
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Tacks aboard |
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To brace the yards around for
sailing close hauled |
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To counter-brace yards |
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To brace the head-yards one way and the
after-yards another |
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To brace to |
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To brace the head yards a little aback, in tacking or wearing |
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Box |
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To box the compass, is to repeat the thirty-two points of the
compass in order |
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Wring |
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To bend or strain a mast by setting the rigging up too taut |
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To break bulk |
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To begin to unload |
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Bale |
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To bale a boat, is
to throw water out of her, A fitting on the end of a spar, to which a line may be led |
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Bagpipe |
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To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it
aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging |
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Back |
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To back an anchor, is to carry
out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain |
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To bear down upon a vessel |
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To approach her from the
windward |
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Kedge |
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To
use an anchor to move a boat by hauling on the anchor rode, a basic anchor type |
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Ease sheet |
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To
let the sheet out slowly loosen a line while maintaining control |
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Seize |
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To
fasten ropes together by turns of small stuff |
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Spring |
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To
crack or split a mast, to spring a leak, is to begin to leak, to spring a luff, is to force a vessel close to
the wind, in sailing |
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Jettison |
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To
cast overboard or off, Informal to discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome |
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Hawse-pieces |
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Timbers through which the hawse-holes are
cut |
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Long-timbers |
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Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from the deadwood to the
head of the second futtock |
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Cant-timbers |
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Timbers at the two ends of a vessel, raised obliquely from the keel,
lower Half cants (reads cints) Those parts of frames situated forward and abaft the square frames, or the floor
timbers which cross the keel |
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Kevel-heads |
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Timber-heads, used as kevels |
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Taut |
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Tight |
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Floor timbers |
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Those timbers of a vessel, which are
placed across the keel |
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Futtock-timbers |
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Those timbers between the floor and naval timbers, and the
top-timbers, there are two - the lower, which is over the floor, and the middle, which is over the naval
timber, the naval timber is sometimes called the ground futtock |
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Jetsam |
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Those things that sink in the water -
they don`t float like flotsam |
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Hounds |
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Those projections at the masthead serving as shoulders for the top or
trestle-trees to rest upon |
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Drifts |
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Those pieces in
the sheer-draught where the rails are cut off |
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Dead-rising, or rising-line |
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Those parts of a vessel`s floor, throughout her
whole length, where the floor-timber is terminated upon the lower futtock |
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Hood-ends, or hooding-ends, or whooden-ends |
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Those ends of the planks, which
fit into the rabbets of the stem or sternpost |
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Battens |
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Thin strips of wood put around the hatches, to keep
the tarpaulin down, also put upon rigging to keep it from chafing, a large batten widened at the end, and put
upon rigging, is called a Scotchman |
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Planks |
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Thick, strong boards, used for covering the sides and decks of
vessels |
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Clamps |
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Thick planks on the inside of
vessels, to support the ends of beams, in addition, crooked plates of iron fore-locked upon the trunnions of
cannon, any plate of iron made to turn, open, and shut to confine a spar or boom, as, a studdingsail boom, o |
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Longitudinals |
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These run fore and aft from bulkhead to
bulkhead, except in the shelter and upper decks, where some are broken by hatch interference, they give
strength and rigidity to the framework and shell, they are connected and welded at the flange of the ch |
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Traverses |
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These are the ribs or frames of the ship, and when placed in position, give the principal shape or
contour, Transverses are not all the same distance apart amidships |
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Royal yard |
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The yard from which the royal is set, the fourth from the deck |
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Head |
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The work at the prow of a vessel, if it is a carved
figure, it is called a figure-head if simple carved work, bending over and out, a billet-head and if bending
in, like the head of a violin, a fiddle-head, also the upper end of a mast, called a m |
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Frames |
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the wooden ribs
that form the shape of the hull |
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Bulwarks |
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The wood work round a vessel, above
her deck, consisting of boards fastened to stanchions and timber-heads |
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Beam |
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The widest part of the boat |
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The bearings of a vessel |
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The widest part of her below the plank-shear, that part of her hull, which is on the waterline when she is at
anchor, and in her proper trim |
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Broadside |
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The whole side of a
vessel |
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Bulk |
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The whole cargo when stowed |
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All hands |
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The whole
crew |
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Helm |
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The wheel or tiller controlling the rudder |
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Sheave |
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The wheel in a block upon which the rope
works |
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Displacement |
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The weight of water displaced by a floating vessel |
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Displacement |
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The weight of the water displaced by the vessel |
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Head-ledges |
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The wartship pieces that frame the hatchways |
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Bulkhead |
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The vertical
partitions that divide the hull into separate compartments are called bulkheads, some are watertight, these
watertight bulkheads are so arranged that in case of accident at sea, water would be confined to one
compartment only, the |
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Gunwale (gunnel) |
Barandilla |
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The upper railing of a boat`s side |
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Union |
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The upper inner corner of an ensign, the rest
of the flag is called the fly, the union of the US ensign is a blue field with white stars, and the fly is
composed of alternate white and red stripes |
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Gunwale |
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The upper edge of a boats
sides |
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Rung-heads |
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The upper
ends of the floor-timbers |
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Drum-head |
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The top of the capstan |
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Trick |
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The time allotted to a man to stand at the helm |
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Midships |
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The timbers at the broadest part of the
vessel, see Amid-Ships |
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Stem |
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The timber at the very front of the bow |
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Keel |
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The timber at the very bottom of the hull fore and
aft to which frames are attached, it may be composed of several pieces scarfed and bolted together, see False
Keel |
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Topgallantsail |
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The third sail above the deck |
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Topgallant mast |
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The third mast above the
deck |
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Displacement hull
speed |
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The theoretical speed that a boat can travel without planing, this speed is 1,34 times the
length of a boat at its waterline |
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Foul |
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The term for the opposite of clear |
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Small stuff |
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The term
for spunyarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, such as ratline-stuff |
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Mainmast |
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The tallest mast of the ship, on a schooner the mast furthest
aft |
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Cat |
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The tackle used to hoist the anchor up to the cat-head |
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Train-tackle |
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The tackle used for running guns in and out |
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Fish-tackle |
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The tackle used for fishing an anchor |
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Tack |
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The tack of a fore-and-aft sail is the rope that keeps down the
lower forward clew and of a studdingsail, the lower outer clew, the tack of the lower studdingsail is called
the outhaul, also that part of a sail in which the tack is attached |
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Break |
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The sudden rise or fall of the deck when not flush |
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Service |
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The stuff so wound round |
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Chafing-gear |
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The stuff put upon the rigging and spars to prevent their chafing |
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Bends |
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The strongest part of a vessel`s side, to which the beams, knees, and
foot-hooks are bolted, the part between the water`s edge and the bulwarks |
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Board |
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The stretch a vessel makes upon one tack, when she is
beating |
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Stream |
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The stream anchor is one used for warping and sometimes as a lighter anchor to
moor by, with a hawser, it is smaller than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, to stream a buoy, is to drop
it into the water |
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Limber-streak |
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The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson |
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Transom |
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The stern cross-section of a square-sterned boat, any
transverse beams secured to the sternpost |
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Shakes |
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The staves of
hogsheads taken apart |
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Rating |
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The status of a seaman in officers it is their
rank |
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Hogged |
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The state of a vessel when, by any strain, she is made to droop at each
end, bringing her center up |
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Broken-backed |
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The state of a vessel when she is so loosened as to droop at each
end |
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Water
boune |
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The state of a ship, with regard to the water surrounding her bottom, when there is barely
a sufficient depth of it to float her off from the ground, particularly when she had for some
time rested thereon |
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Water logged |
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The state of a ship when, by receiving a great quantity of
water into her hold, by leaking, she has become heavy and inactive upon the sea, so as to yield without
resistance to the efforts of every wave rushing over her decks, as in this dangerous |
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Standing |
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The standing part of a rope is that part which is fast, in opposition
to the part that is hauled upon or the main part, in opposition to the end, the standing part of a tackle is
that part which is made fast to the blocks and between that and the |
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Companion-way |
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The staircase to the cabin |
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Bowline-bridle |
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The span on the
leech of the sail to which the bowline is toggled |
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Hold |
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the space for cargo below the deck of the ship |
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Cuntline |
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The space between the bilges of two casks
stowed side by side, where one cask is set upon the cuntline between two others, they are stowed bilge and
cuntline |
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Between-decks |
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The space between any two decks of a ship |
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Yardarm and yardarm |
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The situation of two vessels, lying alongside one another, so near
that their yardarms cross or touch |
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A-cock-bill |
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The situation of the yards when they are topped up at an
angle with the deck, the situation of an anchor when it hangs to the cathead by the ring only |
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A-lee |
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The situation of the helm when it is put in the opposite direction from that in, which the wind
blows |
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A-weather |
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The situation of the helm when it is put in the direction from which the
wind blows |
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Hawse |
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The situation of the cables
before a vessel`s stem, when moored, also the distance upon the water a little in advance of the stem as, a vessel sails athwart the hawse, or anchors in the hawse of another |
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A-trip |
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The situation of the anchor when it is raised clear of the ground,
the same as a-weigh |
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Tide-rode |
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The situation of a vessel, at anchor, when she
swings by the force of the tide, in opposition to wind-rode |
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On beam
ends |
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The situation of a vessel when turned over so that her beams are inclined toward the
vertical |
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A-hull |
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The situation of a vessel when she lies with all her sails furled and her helm lashed a-lee |
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In stays - hore in stays |
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The situation of a vessel when she is staying, or going
about from one tack to the other |
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Even-keel |
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The situation of a vessel when she is so
trimmed that she sits evenly upon the water, neither end being down more than the other |
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Parliament-heel |
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The situation of a vessel when she is careened |
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High
and dry |
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The situation of a vessel when she is aground, above watermark |
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Girt |
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The situation of a vessel when her cables are too taut |
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Neaped - beneaped |
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The situation of a vessel
when she is aground at the height of the spring tides |
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Union-down |
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The situation of a flag when it is
hoisted upside down, bringing the union down instead of up, used as a signal of distress |
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Goose-winged |
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The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee clew are hauled up,
and the weather clew down |
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