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Pinky |
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"New England fishing and trading vessel usually 50" to 70" generally schooner rigged with or without a
foresail, built with pointed stern same shape as the bow |
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Housing - house-line |
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(Pronounced
houze-lin), A small cord made of three small yarns, and used for seizings |
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Tackle |
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(Pronounced
tay-cle), a purchase, formed by a rope rove through one or more blocks |
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Bowline |
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(Pronounced bo-lin), A rope leading forward
from the leech of a square sail, to keep the leech well out when sailing close-hauled, A vessel is said to be
on a bowline, or on a taut bowline, when she is close-hauled |
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Boatswain |
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(Pronounced bo-s`n), A
warrant officer in the navy, who has charge of the rigging, and calls the crew to duty |
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Buntine |
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(Pronounced buntin) Thin
woolen stuff of which a ship`s colors are made |
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Coxswain |
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(Pronounced cox`n), The person who steers a boat and has charge of her |
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Cross-jack |
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(Pronounced croj-jack), The sail cross-jack yard, this is the lower crossed yard on the mizzen
mast |
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Deep-sea-lead |
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(Pronounced dipsey), The lead used in
sounding at great depths |
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Gybe |
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(Pronounced jibe), to shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail |
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Leeward |
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(Pronounced lu-ard), the lee side, in a direction opposite to that from which the wind blows, which is called windward, the
opposite of lee is weather, and of leeward is windward |
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Marline |
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(Pronounced mar-lin), small two-stranded
stuff, used for marling, a finer kind of spunyarn |
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Mall -
maul |
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(Pronounced mawl), A heavy iron hammer used in driving bolts, see Top-Maul |
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Ratlines |
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(Pronounced rat-lins), lines running across the shrouds, horizontally, like
the rounds of a ladder, and used to step upon in going aloft |
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Rope
cutter |
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1:A tool used to cut rope, 2:A device attached to the prop shaft which cuts through
ropes, plastic bags, nets, and other materials that may get tangled in the prop |
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Channel |
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1:That part of a body of water deep enough for navigation through an area otherwise not suitable, It is
usually marked by a single or double line of buoys and sometimes by range markers 2:The deepest part of a
stream, bay, or strait, through which |
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Barkentine |
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3
Masted with Square rigged on fore mast only |
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Bark |
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3 Masted with Square rigged on fore and main mast |
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Jack-block |
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A
block used in sending topgallant masts up and down |
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Shoe-block |
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A
block with two sheaves, one above the other, the one horizontal and the other perpendicular |
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Chain boat |
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A
boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc |
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An eye-splice |
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A
certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope into a loop |
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Truck |
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A
circular piece of wood, placed at the head of the highest mast on a ship, it has small holes or sheaves in it
for signal halyards to be rove through, also the wheel of a gun-carriage |
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Tackle |
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A
combination of blocks and line used to increase mechanical advantage |
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Hold |
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A
compartment below deck in a large vessel, used solely for carrying cargo |
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Boot stripe |
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A
different color strip of paint at the waterline |
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Spencer |
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A
fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff and no boom, and hoisting from a small mast called a spencer-mast, just
abaft the fore and main masts |
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Gallows |
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A
frame used to rest the boom when the sail is down |
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Partners |
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A
frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump |
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Bowline |
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A
knot use to form an eye or loop at the end of a rope |
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Hawser |
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A
large rope used for various purposes, as warping, for a spring |
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Barber hauler |
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A
line attached to the jib or jib sheet, used to adjust the angle of sheeting by pulling the sheet towards the
centre line of the boat |
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Pillar of the hold |
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A
main stanchion with notches for descent and ascent |
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Lead |
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A
piece of lead in the shape of a cone or pyramid, with a small hole at the base, and a line attached to the
upper end, used for sounding, see Hand-Lead, Deep-Sea-Lead |
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Luff-tackle |
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A
purchase composed of a double and single block |
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Fag |
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A
rope is fagged when the end is untwisted |
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Vang |
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A
rope leading from the peak of the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail to the rail on each side, and used for steadying
the gaff |
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Scrimshaw |
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A
sailors carving or etching on bones, teeth, tusks or shells |
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Rounding |
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A
service of rope, hove round a spar or larger rope |
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Anchorage |
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A
sheltered place or area where a boat can anchor |
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Scull |
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A
short oar |
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Moon-sail |
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A
small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail |
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Figure eight knot |
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A
stopper knot for the end of the rope |
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Hurricane |
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A
strong tropical revolving storm of force 12(65 mph) or higher in the Northern Hemisphere, hurricanes revolve in
a clockwise direction |
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Planing hull |
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A
type of hull shaped to glide easily across the water at high speed |
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Rudder |
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A
vertical plate or board for steering a boat |
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Bitt |
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A
vertically posted above deck used to secure line, the cables are fastened to them, if there is no windlass,
there are also bitts to secure the windlass, and on each side of the heel of the bowsprit |
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Free |
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A
vessel is going free, when she has a fair wind and her yards braced in, a vessel is said to be free, when the
water has been pumped out of her |
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Bar |
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A bank or shoal at the entrance of a harbor |
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Tiller |
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A bar of wood or iron, put into the head of the rudder, by which
the rudder is moved |
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Tiller |
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A bar or handle for turning a
boats rudder or an outboard motor |
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Stock |
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A beam of wood, or a bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank of an anchor, at right
angles with the arms, an iron stock usually goes with a key, and unships |
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Anchor ball |
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A black ball visible in all
direction display in the forward part of a vessel at anchor |
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Quarter-block |
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A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve
through |
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Thick-and-thin block |
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A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes
used for quarter-blocks |
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Ninepin block |
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A block in the form of a
ninepin, used for a fair-leader in the rail |
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Heart |
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A block of
wood in the shape of a heart, for stays to reeve through |
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Hawse-block |
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A block of wood fitted into a hawse-hole at sea |
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Fid |
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A block of wood or iron, placed through the hole
in the heel of a mast, and resting on the trestletrees of the mast below, this supports the mast, also a wooden
pin, tapered, used in splicing large ropes, in opening eyes |
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Step |
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A block of wood secured to the keel, into which the heel of the mast is placed,
to step a mast is to put it in its step |
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Pillow |
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A block, which supports the inner
end of the bowsprit |
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Bluff |
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A bluff-bowed or bluff-headed vessel is one, which
is full and square forward |
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Lee-board |
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A board fitted to
the lee side of flat-bottomed boats, to prevent their drifting to leeward |
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Bank |
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A boat is double banked, when men seated on the same thwart pull two oars, one opposite the
other |
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Monohull |
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A boat with one hull |
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Trimaran |
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A boat with three hulls |
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Beam |
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a boat`s
widest point, usually near the middle of the boat |
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Pinnace |
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A boat, in size between the launch and a cutter |
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Screw |
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A boats propeller |
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Bow spring line |
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A bow
pivot line used in docking (and undocking), or to prevent the boat from moving forward or astern while made
fast to a pier |
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Steeve |
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A bowsprit steeves more
or less, according as it is raised more or less from the horizontal, the steeve is the angle it makes with the
horizon, also, a long, heavy spar, with a place to fit a block at one end, and used in stowing certain kinds of |
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Binnacle |
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A box near the helm, containing the
compass |
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Plat |
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A braid of foxes, see Fox |
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Sennit - sinnit |
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A braid, formed by plaiting rope-yarns or spunyarn together, straw,
plaited in the same way for hats, is called sennit |
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Mooring buoy |
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A buoy secured to a permanent
anchor sunk deeply into the bottom |
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Cuddy |
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A cabin in the fore part of a boat |
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Dead reckoning |
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A calculation of determining position by
using course speed last known position |
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Sheathing |
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A casing or covering on a vessel`s
bottom |
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Scuttlebutt |
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A cask with
a hole cut in its bilge, and kept on deck to hold water for daily use |
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Locker |
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A chest or box, to stow anything away
in |
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Deadeye |
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A circular block of wood, with three holes through it, for the
lanyards of rigging to reeve through, without sheaves, and with a groove round it for an iron
strap |
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Manger |
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A coaming just within the hawsehole |
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Quilting |
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A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven
together |
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Ground tackle |
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A collective
term for the anchor and anchor gear and everything used in securing a vessel at anchor |
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Jack |
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A common term for the jack-cross-trees, see Union |
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Cabin |
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A compartment
for passengers or crew |
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Tell tale |
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A compass hanging
from the beams of the cabin, which may know the heading of a vessel at any time, also an instrument connected
with the barrel of the wheel, and traversing so that the officer may see the position of the tiller |
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Spunyarn |
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A cord formed by
twisting together two or three rope-yarns |
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Rack-block |
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A course of blocks made from
one piece of wood, for fair-leaders |
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Hood |
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A covering for a companion hatch,
skylight, etc |
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Awning |
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A covering of canvass over a
vessel`s deck, or over a boat, to keep off sun or rain |
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Roach |
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A curve in the foot of a square sail, by which the clews are
brought below the middle of the foot, the roach of a fore-and-aft sail is in its forward leech |
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Fender |
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A cushion placed between boats,
or between a boat and a pier, to prevent damage |
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Poop |
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A deck raised over the after
part of the spar deck, a vessel is pooped when the sea breaks over her stern |
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Winch |
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A device used to increase hauling power when raising or trimming sails |
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Buoy |
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A distinctively marked object that floats in the water as a navigational
marker |
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Watch |
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A division of time on board ship, there are seven watches in a day, reckoning
from 12 M round through the 24 hours, five of them being of four hours each, and the two others, called dog
watches, of two hours each, viz, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8 |
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Knot |
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A division on the log line, answering to a
nautical mile of distance, a speed of one nautical mile per hour, the intertwining the parts of one or more
ropes, to crown a knot, is to pass the strands over and under each other above the knot, etymolo |
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Breast line |
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A docking line
going at a right angle from the boat to the dock |
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Stern line |
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A docking line leading away from
the stern |
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Bow line |
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A docking line leading from the bow |
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Leading-wind |
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A fair wind, more
particularly applied to a wind abeam or quartering |
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Boat |
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A fairly indefinite term - A waterborne vehicle smaller than a ship, a small
craft carried aboard a ship |
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The eyes of a vessel |
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A familiar phrase for the forward part |
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Stop |
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A fastening of small stuff, also small projections on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast, at the
upper parts of the hounds |
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Ribs |
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A figurative term for a vessel`s
timbers |
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Rudder |
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A fin or blade attached under the hullãs sstern used for steering |
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Zulu |
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A fishing vessel from the north-east of scotland |
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Chock |
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A fitting through which anchor or
mooring lines are led, usually U-shaped to reduce chafe |
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Cleat |
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A fitting, usually with two
horn-shaped ends, to which lines are made fast, the classic cleat is almost anvil-shaped |
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Day beacon |
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A fixed navigation aid structure used in shallow waters upon
which is placed one or more daymarks |
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Forelock |
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A flat piece of iron, driven through the end of
a bolt, to prevent its drawing |
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Hog |
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A flat rough broom, used for scrubbing the bottom
of a vessel |
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Buoy |
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A floating navigation aid, a floating cask, or piece of wood, attached by a rope to an anchor, to
show its position, also floated over a shoal, or other dangerous place as a beacon, to stream a buoy, is to
drop it into the water before letting go |
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Trysail |
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A fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, and hoisting on a small mast
abaft the lower mast, called a trysail-mast, this name is generally confined to the sail so carried at the
mainmast of a full-rigged brig, those carried at the foremast an |
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Yankee |
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A foresail flying above and forward of thee jib, usually seen on bowsprit
vessels |
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Bow-grace |
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A frame of old ropes or junk placed round the bows and sides of a vessel,
to prevent the ice from injuring her |
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Gaff |
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A free-swinging spar
attached to the top of a fore-and-aft sail |
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Timber |
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A general term for all large pieces of wood used
in shipbuilding, also more particularly, long pieces of wood in a curved form, bending outward, and running
from the keel up, on each side, forming the ribs of a vessel, the keel, stem, sternposts a |
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Gear |
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A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment |
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Score |
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A groove in a block or
dead-eye |
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Legend |
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A group
of symbols and definitions on a chart or map |
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Clinch |
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A half-hitch stopped to its own part |
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Anchor |
Ancla |
Anker |
Anker |
A heavy metal device, fastened to a chain or line, to hold a vessel in position, partly because of its weight, but mainly because the designed shape digs into the bottom |
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Pink-stern |
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A high, narrow stern |
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Scuttle |
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A hole cut in a
vessel`s deck, as a hatchway, also a hole cut in any part of a vessel |
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Hawse hole |
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A hole in the hull for mooring
lines to run through |
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Eyelet-hole |
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A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to
go through |
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Leak |
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A hole or breach in a vessel, at which the water comes in |
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Fishhook |
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A hook with a pennant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked |
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Dorade |
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A horn type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out |
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Caboose |
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A house on deck, where the cooking is
done, Commonly called the Galley |
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V-bottom |
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A hull with the bottom section in the shape
of a V |
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Log - logbook |
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A journal kept by the chief officer, in which the situation of the vessel, winds, weather, courses,
distances, and everything of importance that occurs, is noted down |
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Snow |
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A kind of brig, formerly
used |
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Duck |
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A kind of cloth, lighter and finer than canvass, used for small
sails |
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Flemish-eye |
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A kind of eye-splice |
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Cat`s-paw |
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A kind of hitch made in a rope, a light current of air seen on the
surface of the water during a calm |
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Sheep-shank |
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A kind of hitch or bend, used to shorten a rope temporarily |
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Marling-hitch |
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A kind of hitch used in
marling |
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Carrick-bend |
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A kind of knot |
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A bend |
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A knot by which one rope is made fast to
another |
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Clove hitch |
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A knot for temporarily fastening a line to a spar or piling |
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Figure eight knot |
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A knot in the form of a
figure eight, placed in the end of a line to prevent the line from passing through a grommet or a
block |
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Mousing |
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A knot or puddening, made of yarns, and placed on the outside of a rope |
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Wall |
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A knot put
on the end of a rope |
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Bowline knot |
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A knot used to form a temporary loop in the end of a
line |
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Square knot |
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A knot used to join two lines of similar size,
also called a reef knot |
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Sheet bend |
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A knot used to join two ropes, functionally different from a square knot
in that it can be used between lines of different diameters |
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Hitch |
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A knot used to secure a rope
to another object or to another rope, or to form a loop or a noose in a rope |
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Cuckold`s neck |
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A knot, by which a rope is
secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope crossing each other, and seized together |
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Clove hitch |
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A knot, two half hitches
around a spar, post or rope |
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Scotchman |
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A large batten placed over the turnings-in of rigging, see
Batten |
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Barge |
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A large double-banked boat used by the commander of a vessel, in the
navy |
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Top-block |
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A large ironbound block, hooked into a bolt under the lower cap, and used for
the top-rope to reeve throug |
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Garland |
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A large rope, strap or grommet, lashed to a spar when hoisting it
inboard |
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Holy-stone |
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A large stone, used for cleaning a ship`s decks |
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Spinnaker |
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A large triangular sail carried forward of the main mast on modern sailing ships, used when running
before the wind, first introduced on the yatch Sphinx during the 1870`s and origionally called a
Spinxer |
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Surge |
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A large, swelling wave, to surge a rope or cable is to slack it up suddenly
where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan |
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Viol - voyal |
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A larger
messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan, also the block through which the messenger
passes |
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Ship |
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A larger vessel usually
used for ocean travel, according to Websters, a sailing vessel usually having a bowsprit and three masts each
composed of a lower mast, a top mast, and a topgallant mast, also a vessel that is able to carry a boat on
bo |
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Hypothermia |
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A life
threatening condition in which the bodys temperature are subnormal and the entire body cools |
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Royal |
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A light sail next above a topgallant
sail |
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Skysail |
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A light sail next above the royal |
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Gaff-topsail |
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A light sail set over a gaff, the
foot being spread by it |
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Beacon |
Baliza |
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A lighted or unlighted fixed aid to navigation attached directly to the earths surface Lights and daybeacons, both constitute beacons |
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Painter |
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A line attached to
the bow of a boat for use in towing or making fast |
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Spurling line |
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A line communicating between the
tiller and tell-tale |
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Tripline |
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A line fast to the crown of an anchor by means
of which it can be hauled out when dug too deeply or fouled, a similar line used on a sea anchor to bring it
aboard |
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Topping lift |
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A line or wire for lifting the
boom |
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Stay |
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A line or wire from
the mast to the bow or stern of a ship, for support of the mast (fore, back, running, and triadic
stays) |
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Shroud |
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A line or wire running from the top of the mast to the spreaders, then attaching to the side of the
vessel |
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Waterline |
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A line painted on a hull which shows the point to which a
boat sinks when it is properly trimmed |
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Fancy-line |
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A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul,
also a line used for cross-hauling the lee topping-lift |
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After leading |
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A line that lead
from its point of attachment toward the stern |
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Spring line |
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A line tied between two opposing
forces that has a neutralizing effect, at the dock with a bow line and stern line tied off, a spring line is
often added to limit the movements of a vessel even more |
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Tripping line |
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A line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down |
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Ramline |
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A line used in mast-making to get a straight middle line on a
spar |
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Top-lining |
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A lining on the after part of sails, to prevent them
from chafing against the top-rim |
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Tar |
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A liquid gum, taken from pine and fir trees, and used for
caulking, and to put upon yarns in rope-making, and upon standing rigging, to protect it from the
weather |
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Pier |
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A loading/landing platform extending at an angle
from the shore |
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Handspike |
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A long
wooden bar, used for heaving at the windlass |
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Swivel |
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A long link of iron, used in chain cables, made so as to
turn upon an axis and keep the turns out of a chain |
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Pendant - pennant |
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A long narrow
piece of bunting, carried at the masthead, broad pennant is a square piece, carried in the same way, in a
commodore`s vessel, a rope to which a purchase is hooked, a long strap fitted at one end to a yard or
masthead, with a hook |
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Sister block |
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A long piece of
wood with two sheaves in it, one above the other, with a score between them for a seizing, and a groove around
the block, lengthwise |
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Yard |
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A long piece of timber or spar, tapering slightly toward the ends, and hung by
the centre to a mast, to spread the square sails upon |
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Fiddle-block |
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A long shell having
one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper |
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Bowsprit |
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A long spar
attached to the Jibboom in the bow, used to secure headsails |
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Oar |
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A long wooden instrument with a flat blade at one end, used for propelling
boats |
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Luff-upon-luff |
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A luff tackle applied to the
fall of another |
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Camel |
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A machine used for
lifting vessels over a shoal or bar |
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Drag |
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A machine with a bag net, used for dragging on the bottom for anything
lost |
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Made |
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A made
mast or block is one composed of different pieces, a ship`s lower mast is a made spar, her topmast is a whole
spar |
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Jetty |
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A man made structure projecting from the shore, breakwater protecting a
harbor entrance |
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Wharf |
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A manmade structure bonding the edge of a dock and built
along or at an angle to the shoreline, used for loading, unloading, or tying up vessels |
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Grafting |
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A manner of covering a rope by weaving together
yarns |
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Chart |
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A map for use by navigators |
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Chart |
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A map of part
of the sea, showing currents, depths, islands, coasts, etc |
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Abandonment |
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A marine insurance term
indicating that the cost of repairs to a vessel is more than the cost of the vessel and cargo |
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Head |
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A marine toilet, also the upper corner of a triangular sail |
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Lubbers line |
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A mark or permanent line
on a compass indicating the direction forward, parallel to the keel when properly installed |
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Knot |
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A measure of speed
equal to one nautical mile (6076 feet) per hour, A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to
enclose or bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to an object, or to tie the ends of
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Nautical mile |
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A measurement used
by sailors that equals 6,080 feet (a land mile is 5,280 feet) |
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Bilge pump |
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A mechanical, electrical, or manually operated pump used to remove
water from the bilge |
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Pintle |
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A metal bolt,
used for hanging a rudder |
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Dowelling |
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A method of coaking, by
letting pieces into the solid, or uniting two pieces together by tenoning |
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Swab |
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A mop, formed of old rope, used for cleaning and drying
decks |
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Mortice |
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A morticed block is one made out of a whole block of wood with a hole cut
in it for the sheave in distinction from a made block |
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Sky-scraper |
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A name given
to a skysail when it is triangular |
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Pommelion |
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A name given by seamen to the cascable or hindmost knob on the breech
of a cannon, the pomelions were used to keep damp out of cannons during non-fighting periods and keep rust
(and/or salt) from building up inside the barrel, this was probably 99 |
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Mare liberum |
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A navigable body of
water, such as sea, that is open to navigation by vessels of all nations |
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Mare clausum |
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A navigable body of water, such as sea, that is under
the jurisdication of one nation and closed to all others |
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Maiden voyage |
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A new boat`s first
trip |
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Strand |
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A number of rope-yarns twisted together, three, four or
nine strands twisted together form a rope, a rope is stranded when one of its strands is parted or broken by
chafing or by a strain, a vessel is stranded when she is driven on shore |
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Crow-foot |
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A number of small lines rove through the uvrou to suspend an awning
by |
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Nippers |
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A number of yarns marled together, used to secure a cable to the messenger |
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Yeoman |
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A officer under the boatswain employed in a vessel of war
to take charge of a storeroom as, boatswain`s yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of
rigging |
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Bridge
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A partition between the cockpit and the cabin |
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Hitch |
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A peculiar manner of fastening ropes |
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Deck |
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A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of a ship serving as a
floor |
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Eye splice |
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A permanent loop spliced in the end of a
line |
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Quarter-master |
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A petty officer in a man-of-war, who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, and watches for
signals |
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Inner-post |
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A piece brought on at the fore
side of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms
upon |
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Strap |
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A piece of
rope spliced rounds a block to keep its parts well together, some blocks have iron straps, in which case they
are called iron bound |
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Drabler |
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A piece of canvass laced to the
bonnet of a sail, to give it more drop |
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Glut |
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A piece of canvass sewed into the center
of a sail near the head, it has an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go
through |
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Tarpaulin |
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A piece of canvass, covered with tar, used for covering hatches, boats,
etc, also the name commonly given to a sailor`s hat when made of tarred or painted cloth |
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Hammock |
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A piece of canvass, hung at each end, in which seamen sleep |
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Sail |
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A piece of cloth that
catches the wind and so powers a vessel, they are of two kinds: square sails, which hang from yards, their foot
lying across the line of the keel, as the courses, topsails and fore-and-aft sails, which set upon gaffs, or on
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Stemson |
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A piece of compass-timber, fixed on the after part of the apron inside, the
lower end is scarfed into the keelson, and receives the scarf of the stem, through which it is
bolted |
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Palm |
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A piece of leather fitted over
the hand, with an iron for the head of a needle to press against in sewing upon canvass, also the fluke of an
anchor |
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Fore-runner |
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A piece of rag,
terminating the stray-line of the log-line |
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Becket |
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A piece of rope placed so as to confines
a spar or another rope, a handle made of rope, in the form of a circle, (as the handle of a chest) Is called a
becket |
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Lizard |
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A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and
one or more iron thimbles spliced into it, it is used for various purposes, one with two legs, and a thimble to
each, is often made fast to the topsail for the buntlines to reeve through, a single one |
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Arming |
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A piece of tallow put in the cavity and over the
bottom of a lead-line |
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Dagger |
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A piece of timber
crossing all the puppets of the bilge-ways to keep them together |
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Forefoot |
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A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel,
upon which the lower end of the stem rests |
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Scrowl |
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A piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head,
in place of a figure-head |
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Cross-piece |
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A piece of timber connecting two bitts |
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Apron |
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A piece of timber fixed behind the
lower part of the stern, just above the fore end of the keel, a covering to the vent or lock of a
cannon |
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Helm-port-transom |
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A piece of timber placed across the lower counter,
inside, at the height of the helm-port, and bolted through every timber, for the security of that port |
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Stem |
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A piece of timber reaching from the forward end of
the keel, to which it is scarfed, up to the bowsprit, and to which the two sides of the vessel are
united |
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Eiking |
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A piece of wood
fitted to make good a deficiency in length |
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Yoke |
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A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat`s rudder, with a rope attached
to each end, by which the boat is steered |
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Shoe |
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A piece of wood used for the bill of
an anchor to rest upon, to save the vessel`s side, also for the heels of shears |
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Cleat |
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A piece of wood with two
horns used in different parts of a vessel to belay ropes to |
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Euvrou |
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A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot
to an awning are extended, see Uvrou |
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Plug |
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A piece of wood, fitted into a hole in a vessel or boat, so as to let in or keep out
water |
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Toggle |
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A pin placed through the bight or eye of a rope, block-strap, or bolt, to keep it in its place, or to put
the bight or eye of another rope upon, and thus to secure them both together |
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Spring line |
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A pivot line used in docking, undocking, or to prevent
the boat from moving forward or astern while made fast to a dock |
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Anchorage |
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A place suitable for
anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom |
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Lines drawing |
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A plan showing, in three
views, the moulded surface of the vessel |
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Top |
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A platform,
placed over the head of a lower mast, resting on the trestletrees, to spread the rigging, and for the
convenience of men aloft, to top up a yard or boom, is to raise up one end of it by hoisting on the
lift |
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Dead reckoning |
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A plot of courses steered and distances traveled through the
water |
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Beam reach |
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A point of sail where the boat is sailing at a right angle to the
apparent wind |
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Broad reach |
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A point of sailing where the
boat is moving away from the wind, but not directly downwind |
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Spar |
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A pole or a beam |
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Staff |
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A pole or mast, used to hoist flags
upon |
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Yellow admiral |
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a post captain is posted to rear admiral on retirement without
serving in that rank |
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Inner sternpost |
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A post on the inside, corresponding to the
sternpost |
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Beacon |
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A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to
warn vessels off, also as a signal-mark on land |
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Spring-stay |
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A preventer-stay, to assist the regular one, see
Stay |
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Stabber |
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A Pricker |
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Shore |
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A prop or stanchion, placed under a beam |
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Taffrail log |
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A propeller drawn through the water that
operates a meter on the boat registering the speed and distance sailed |
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Dock |
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A protected water area in which vessels are
moored, the term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf |
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Block |
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A pulley used
to gain mechanical advantage |
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Winch |
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A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with
a wheel or crank at the end, a small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spunyarn |
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Whip |
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A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block, to whip, is to hoist by a whip, also to secure the
end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine, Whip-upon-whip, one whip applied to the fall of
another |
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Gun-tackle purchase |
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A purchase made by two single
blocks |
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Garnet |
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A purchase on the main stay, for hoisting cargo |
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Jack-screw |
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A purchase, used for stowing cotton |
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Range of cable |
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A quantity of cable, more or less, placed in order for letting go the
anchor or paying out |
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Price |
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A quantity of spunyarn or rope laid close up
together |
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Puddening |
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A quantity of yarns, matting or oakum, used to prevent
chafing |
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Fife
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A rail around the mast with hole for belaying pins |
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Tier |
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A range of casks, also the
range of the fakes of a cable or hawser, the cable tier is the place in a hold or between decks where the
cables are stowed |
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Streak - strake |
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A range of planks running fore-and-aft on a vessel`s
side |
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Ebb tide |
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A receding
tide, a period or state of decline |
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Log |
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A record of
courses or operation, also a device to measure speed |
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Balance-reef |
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A reef in a spanker or fore-and-aft mainsail, which runs from the outer head-earing, diagonally, to the tack,
it is the closest reef, and makes the sail triangular, or nearly so |
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Pitch |
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A resin taken from pine, and used for filling up the seams
of a vessel |
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Grommet |
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A ring formed of rope, by laying round a single strand |
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Eye-bolt |
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A ring through
eye, it is called a ring-bolt, a long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel`s deck or
side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to |
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Painter |
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A rope
attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast |
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Guy |
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A rope
attaching to anything to steady it, and bear it one way and another in hoisting |
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Messenger |
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A rope
used for heaving in a cable by the capstan |
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Downhaul |
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A rope
used to haul down jibs, staysails, and studdingsails |
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Pazaree |
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A rope attached to the clew of the foresail and rove through a block on the
swinging boom, used for guying the clews out when before the wind |
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Earing |
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A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed |
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Slip-rope |
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A rope bent to the cable just outside the hawsehole, and brought in on the
weather quarter, for slipping |
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Fast |
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A rope by which a
vessel is secured to a wharf, there are bow or head, breast, quarter, and stern fasts |
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Brace |
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A rope by which a yard is turned about |
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Timenoguy |
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A rope carried taut between different parts
of the vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul, in working ship |
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Tye |
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A rope connected with a yard, to the other end of which a tackle is attached for
hoisting |
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Guess-warp -
guess-rope |
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A rope fastened to a vessel or wharf, and used to tow a boat by or to haul it out to
the swing-boom-end, when in port |
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Snotter |
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A rope going over a yard-arm, with an eye, used to bend a tripping-line to in
sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war |
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Jacobs ladder |
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A rope ladder with wooden steps |
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Gob-line
- gaub-line |
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A rope leading from the martingale inboard, the same as back-rope |
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Dolphin |
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A rope or strap round a mast to support the puddening, where the
lower yards rest in the slings, in addition a spar or buoy with a large ring in it, secured to an anchor, to
which vessels may bend their cables |
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Breast-rope |
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A rope passed round a man in
the chains, while sounding |
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Limber-rope |
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A rope rove fore-and-aft through the limbers, to clear them if
necessary |
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Girtline |
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A rope rove through a single block aloft, making a whip purchase, commonly used to hoist rigging by, in
fitting it |
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Triatic stay |
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A rope secured at each end to the heads of the fore and main masts, with
thimbles spliced into its bight, to hook the stay tackles to |
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Tail |
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A rope spliced
into the end of a block and used for making it fast to rigging or spars, such a block is called a tail-block, a
ship is said to tail up or down stream, when at anchor, according as her stern swings up or down with the tide
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Clew-garnet |
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A rope that hauls up the clew of a foresail or mainsail in a square-rigged
vessel |
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Clewline |
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A rope that hauls up the clew of a square sail,the clew-garnet is the
clewline of a course |
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