Nautical dictionary

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	Zulu time				GMT- Greenwich Meridian Time, also known as Universal Time
	Zulu				A fishing vessel from the north-east of scotland
	Zenith				In nautical astronomy a point imediately above an observer, coresspond to a straight line from the centre of the earth through the observer to the zenith
	Zebeck				A small three-masted Mediterranean vessel with lanteen and some square sails
	Yoke				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
	Yeoman				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
	Yellow jack				Term used for yellow fever, used for quarantine flag which is coloured yellow, a naval pensioner in Greenwich Hospital who is too fond of his liquor and wore a yellow colour coat to denote this
	Yellow admiral				a post captain is posted to rear admiral on retirement without serving in that rank
	Yawl boat				Smaller powered boat used to provide steerageway when not under sail
	Yawl				A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post
	Yawing				The motion of a ship when she deviates from to the right or left
	Yaw				To swing off course, as when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea
	Yaw				The motion of a vessel when she goes off from her course
	Yarn				See Rope-Yarn
	Yardarm and yardarm				The situation of two vessels, lying alongside one another, so near that their yardarms cross or touch
	Yardarm				The extremities of a yard
	Yard				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
	Yankee				A foresail flying above and forward of thee jib, usually seen on bowsprit vessels
	Yacht	Yate	Jacht	Yacht	A vessel of pleasure or state
	Xebec				See Zebec
	Wring-staves				Strong pieces of plank used with the wring-bolts
	Wring-bolts				Bolts that secure the planks to the timbers
	Wring				To bend or strain a mast by setting the rigging up too taut
	Worm				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
	Work up				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
	Woold				To wind a piece of rope round a spar, or other thing
	Withe - wythe				An iron instrument fitted on the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boom or mast is rigged out and secured
	Wingers				Casks stowed in the wings of a vessel
	Wing-and-wing				The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her foresail hauled over on one side and her mainsail on the other
	Wing				That part of the hold or between-decks which is next the side
	Windward				Toward the direction from which the wind is coming, opposite of leeward
	Windlass				The machine used in merchant vessels to weigh the anchor by
	Windjammer				A square-rigged commercial sailing ship used as an insulting term by steamboat sailors
	Windjammer				Large ship powered by wind and sails, used for pleasure cruising
	Wind-rode				The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current, see Tide-Rode
	Winch				A device used to increase hauling power when raising or trimming sails
	Winch				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
	Widow-maker				A term for the bowsprit (many sailors lost their lives falling off the bowsprit while tending sails)
	Whip				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
	Wheel				device used for steering a boat
	Wharf				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
	Weigh - to haul up				Weigh the anchor
	Weather-bitt				To take an additional turn with a cable round the windlass-end
	Weather roll				The roll, which a ship makes to windward
	Weather gage				A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her
	Weather beaten				Shattered by a storm, or disabled in battle
	Weather				Is known to be the particular state of the air with regard to the degree of the wind, to heat or cold, or to driness and moisture
	Weather				Is also used as an adjective, applied by mariners to every thing lying to windward of a particular situation, thus a ship is laid to have the weather-gage of another, when the is further to-windward, thus also when a ship under sail presents eithe
	Wear				See Ware
	Way				Movement of a vessel through the water, such as headway, sternway, or leeway
	Way				Of a ship, the course or progress which the makes on the water under sail, thus when she begins her motion, she is said to be under way and when that motion increases, she is said to have fresh way through the water, hence also she is said to have
	Waterways				Long pieces of timber, running fore and aft on both sides, connecting the deck with the vessel`s sides, the scuppers are made through them to let the water off
	Waterline				A line painted on a hull which shows the point to which a boat sinks when it is properly trimmed
	Water-boards - weather-boards				To keep out the waves or spray of the sea
	Water spout				An extraordinary and dangerous meteor, consisting of a large mass of water, collected into a sort of column by the force of a whirlwind, and moved with rapidity along the surface of the sea
	Water shot				See Mooring
	Water sail				A save-all, set under the swinging-boom
	Water logged				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
	Water line				The line made by the water`s edge when a ship has her full proportion of stores, and crew on board
	Water boune				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
	Watch-tackle				A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a hook, used for various purposes about decks
	Watch-and-watch				The arrangement by which the watches are alternated every other four hours, in distinction from keeping all hands during one or more watches
	Watch ho! Watch!				The cry of the man that heaves the deep-sea-lead
	Watch				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
	Wash-boards				Light pieces of board placed above the gunwale of a boat
	Warp				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
	Ware - wear				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
	Ward-room				The room in a vessel of war in which the commissioned officers live
	Walt				An obsolete or spurious term signifying crank
	Wall-sided				A vessel is wall-sided when her sides run up perpendicularly from the bends, in opposition to tumbling home or flaring out
	Wall				A knot put on the end of a rope
	Wales				Strong planks in a vessel`s sides, running her whole length fore and aft
	Wale-reared				An obselete phrase, implying wall-sided
	Wake				Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind when moving across the waters
	Wake				Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind it, when moving thru the water
	Waisters				Green hands, or broken-down seamen, placed in the waist of a man-of-war
	Waist				That part of the upper deck between the quarterdeck and forecastle
	Waft				Signal displayed from the stern of a ship for some particular purpose, by hoisting the ensign, furled up together into a long roll, to the head of its staff, it is particularly used to summon the boats off from the shore to the ship whereto they b
	Wad				Quantity of old rope-yarns, rolled firmly together into the form of a ball, and used to confine the shot or shell, together with its charge of powder, in the breech of a piece of artillery
	Viol - voyal				A larger messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan, also the block through which the messenger passes
	Vhf radio				A very high frequency electronic communications and direction finding system
	Vhf				very high frequency radio
	Veer				Said of the wind when it changes, also to slack a cable and let it run out, see Pay, to veer and haul, is to haul and slack alternately on a rope, as in warping, until the vessel or boat gets headway
	Vast (written `vast)				See Avast
	Variation				The angular difference between the magnetic meridian and the geographic meridian at a particular location
	Vang				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
	Vane				A small flag worn at each mast head to show wind direction
	V-bottom				A hull with the bottom section in the shape of a V
	V-berth				usually the forward berth of the boat, located in the bow
	Uvrou				See Euvrou
	Unship				See Ship
	Unmoor				To heave up one anchor so that the vessel may ride at a single anchor, see Moor
	Union-down				The situation of a flag when it is hoisted upside down, bringing the union down instead of up, used as a signal of distress
	Union jack				A small flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted at the bowsprit-cap
	Union				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
	Underway				Vessel in motion, when not moored, at anchor, or aground
	Underway				Vessel in motion, when not moored, at anchor, or aground
	Under the red				Jack Pirates
	Unbend				To cast off or untie, see Bend
	Tye				A rope connected with a yard, to the other end of which a tackle is attached for hoisting
	Turnbuckle				A threaded, adjustable rigging fitting, used for stays, lifelines, and sometimes other rigging
	Turn up!				The order given to send the men up from between decks
	Turn				Passing a rope once or twice round a pin or kevel, to keep it fast, also two crosses in a cable
	Tumbling home				Said of a ship`s sides when they fall in above the bends, the opposite of wall-sided
	Tumble home				Refers to a cabin or hull with a width that becomes narrower as height increases
	Trysail				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
	Truss				The rope by which the centre of a lower yard is kept in toward the mast
	Trunnions				The arms on each side of a cannon by which it rests upon the carriage, and on which, as an axis, it is elevated or depressed
	True wind				The actual direction from which the wind is blowing
	True north pole				The north end of the earths axis and also called North Geographic Pole, the direction indicated by 000? (or 360?) on the true compass rose
	Truck				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
	Tripping line				A line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down
	Tripline				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
	Trip				To raise an anchor clear of the bottom
	Trimaran				A boat with three hulls
	Trim				Fore and aft balance of a boat
	Trim				The condition of a vessel, with reference to her cargo and ballast, a vessel is trimmed by the head or by the stern, in ballast trim, is when she has only ballast on board, also, to arrange the sails by the braces with reference to the wind
	Trick				The time allotted to a man to stand at the helm
	Trice				To haul up by means of a rope
	Triatic stay				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
	Trestle-trees				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
	Trend				The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill
	Treenails - trunnels				Long wooden pins, used for nailing a plank to a timber
	Traverses				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
	Traveller				An iron ring, fitted so as to slip up and down a rope
	Transom-knees				Knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers
	Transom				The stern cross-section of a square-sterned boat, any transverse beams secured to the sternpost
	Transom				the planking that forms the stern and closes off the sides
	Train-tackle				The tackle used for running guns in and out
	Tow				To draw a vessel along by means of a rope
	Touch				A sail is said to touch, when the wind strikes the leech so as to shake it a little, Luff and touch her! The order to bring the vessel up and see how near she will go to the wind
	Toss				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
	Topsides				The sides of a vessel between the waterline and the deck, sometimes referring to onto or above the deck
	Topsail schooner				A schooner with a square rigged sail on forward mast
	Topsail				The sail above the lowermost sail on a square-rigged ship, also the sail set above and sometimes on the gaff in a fore-and-aft rigged ship
	Topsail				The second sail above the deck
	Topping lift				A line or wire for lifting the boom
	Topmast				A second spar carried at the top of the fore or main mast, used to fly more sail
	Topgallantsail				The third sail above the deck
	Topgallant mast				The third mast above the deck
	Topgallant				Relating to the part next above the topmast and below the royal mast
	Top-rope				The rope used for sending topmasts up and down
	Top-lining				A lining on the after part of sails, to prevent them from chafing against the top-rim
	Top-light				A signal lantern carried in the top
	Top-block				A large ironbound block, hooked into a bolt under the lower cap, and used for the top-rope to reeve throug
	Top timbers				The highest timbers on a vessel`s side, being above the futtocks
	Top				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
	Toggle				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
	Toe rail				A small rail around the deck of a boat, the toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks
	To weather				To sail to windward of some ship, bank, or head-land
	To turn in or turn out				Nautical terms for going to rest in a berth or hammock, and getting up from them
	To steer small				To keep a vessel on course with only small movements of the steering gear
	To steer large				The opposite to steer small
	To shore				To prop up
	To scuttle				To cut or bore holes in a vessel to make her sink
	To sculll				To impel a boat by one oar at the stern
	To purchase				The anchor, is to loosen it out of the ground
	To lay aboard				To sail alongside an enemy vessel with the intention of boarding
	To heel				To lie over on one side
	To draw a jib				To shift it over the stay to leeward, when it is aback
	To counter-brace yards				To brace the head-yards one way and the after-yards another
	To come up a rope or tackle				To slack it off
	To clew up				To haul up the clew of a sail
	To break ground				To lift the anchor from the bottom
	To break bulk				To begin to unload
	To break shear				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
	To brace up				To lay the yard fore fore-and-aft
	To brace to				To brace the head yards a little aback, in tacking or wearing
	To brace aback				See Aback
	To brace a yard				To turn it about horizontally
	To bend a sail				To make it fast to the yard
	To bend a cable				To make it fast to the anchor
	To bear-a-hand				To make haste
	To bear up				To put the helm up, keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to leeward
	To bear down upon a vessel				To approach her from the windward
	To bear away				The same as to bear up, being applied to the vessel instead of to the tiller
	To back and fill				Is alternately to back and fill the sails
	To back a sail				Is throw it aback
	To brace in				To lay it nearer square
	Timenoguy				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
	Timber heads				The ends of the timbers that come above the decks, used for belaying hawsers and large ropes
	Timber				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
	Tiller-ropes				Ropes leading from the tiller-head round the barrel of the wheel, by which a vessel is steered
	Tiller				A bar or handle for turning a boats rudder or an outboard motor
	Tiller				A bar of wood or iron, put into the head of the rudder, by which the rudder is moved
	Tier				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
	Tide-rode				The situation of a vessel, at anchor, when she swings by the force of the tide, in opposition to wind-rode
	Tide				The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans
	Tide				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
	Thwartships				See Athwartships
	Thwarts				The seats going across a boat, upon which the oarsmen sit
	Thwart				A seat or brace running laterally across a boat, also a rowers seat extending across the boat
	Thus				See Dyce
	Thrum				To stick short strands of yarn through a mat or piece of canvass, to make a rough surface
	Throat				The inner end of a gaff, where it widens and hollows in to fit the mast, see Jaws, also the hollow part of a knee
	Thole pins				Pins in the gunwale of a boat, between which an oar rests when pulling, instead of a rowlock
	Thimble				An iron ring, having its rim concaves on the outside for a rope or strap to fit snugly round
	Thick-and-thin block				A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blocks
	The throat brails				Halyards, are those that hoist or haul up the gaff or sail near the throat, also the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank
	The eyes of a vessel				A familiar phrase for the forward part
	The bearings of a vessel				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
	Tenon				The heel of a mast, made to fit into the step
	Tend				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
	Tell tale				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
	Taut				Tight
	Taunt				High or tall, commonly applied to a vessel`s masts, all-a-taunt-o, said of a vessel when she has all her light and tall masts and spars aloft
	Tarpaulin				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
	Tar				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
	Tank				An iron vessel placed in the hold to contain the vessel`s water
	Tampion - tompion				Meaning a plug for a gun-muzzle dates from about 1480, Originally, it referred to a piece of cloth, used as a stopper
	Tail-tackle				A watch-tackle
	Tail on! - tally on!				An order given to take hold of a rope and pull
	Tail				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 in op
	Taffrail log				A propeller drawn through the water that operates a meter on the boat registering the speed and distance sailed
	Taffrail - tafferel				The rail round a ship`s stern
	Tacks aboard				To brace the yards around for sailing close hauled
	Tackle				A combination of blocks and line used to increase mechanical advantage
	Tackle				(Pronounced tay-cle), a purchase, formed by a rope rove through one or more blocks
	Tack				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
	Tack				A vessel is on the starboard tack, or has her starboard tacks on board, when she has the wind on her starboard side
	Tack				The rope or tackle by which the weather clew of a course is hauled forward and down to the deck
	Tack				The lower forward corner of the sail
	Tack				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
	Tabling				Letting one beam-piece into another, see Scarfing, also the broad hem on the borders of sails, to which the bolt-rope is sewed
	Syphering				Lapping the edges of planks over each other for a bulkhead
	Swivel				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
	Swig				A term used by sailors for the mode of hauling off upon the bight of a rope when its lower end is fast
	Swifter				The forward shroud to a lower-mast, also ropes used to confine the capstan bars to their places when shipped
	Swift				To bring two shrouds or stays close together by ropes
	Sweep				To drag the bottom for an anchor, also large oars used in small vessels to force them ahead
	Swamp				To fill with water, but not settle to the bottom
	Swab				A mop, formed of old rope, used for cleaning and drying decks
	Surge ho!				The notice given when a cable is to be surged
	Surge				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
	Surf				The breaking of the sea upon the shore
	Supporters				The knee-timbers under the catheads
	Sued - sewed				The condition of a ship when she is high and dry on shore, if the water leaves her two feet, she sues, or is sued, two feet
	Studdingsails				Light sails set outside the square sails, on booms rigged out for that purpose, they are only carried with a fair wind and in moderate weather
	Strike				To lower a sail or colors
	Stretchers				Pieces of wood placed across a boat`s bottom, inside, for the oarsmen to press their feet against, in rowing, also cross pieces placed between a boat`s sides to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped
	Stream				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
	Streak - strake				A range of planks running fore-and-aft on a vessel`s side
	Strap				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
	Strand				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
	Stowed in bulk				When goods are stowed loose, instead of being stowed in casks or bags, see Break bulk
	Stow				To pack or store away, especially to pack in an orderly, compact manner
	Stopper bolts				Ringbolts to which the deck stoppers are secured
	Stopper				A stout rope with a knot at one end, and sometimes a hook at the other, used for various purposes about decks as, making fast a cable, so as to overhaul, see Cat Stopper, Deck Stopper
	Stop				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
	Stools				Small channels for the deadeyes of the backstays
	Stocks				The frame upon which a vessel is built
	Stock				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
	Stirrups				Ropes with thimbles at their ends, through which the footropes are rove, and by which they are kept up toward the yards
	Stiff				The quality of a vessel, which enables it to carry a great deal of sail without lying over-much on her side, the opposite to crank
	Sternpost				The aftermost timber in a ship, reaching from the after end of the keel to the deck, the stem and sternpost are the two extremes of a vessel`s frame
	Stern-way				The movement by which a ship retreats, or falls backward, with her stern foremost
	Stern-frame				The frame composed of the sternpost transom and the fashion-pieces
	Stern-board				When a vessel goes stern foremost
	Stern-board				The motion of a vessel when going sternforemost
	Stern sheets				The after part of a boat, abaft the rowers, where the passengers sit
	Stern line				A docking line leading away from the stern
	Stern				The after part (back) of the boat
	Stern				After end of a vessel
	Stern			Heck	The after end of a vessel, see By the stern
	Stern				The rear section of the boat
	Step				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
	Stemson				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
	Stem				The timber at the very front of the bow
	Stem				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
	Steeve				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
	Steerage				That part of the between-decks which is just forward of the cabin
	Steer				To control the direction of a vessel via the steering gear
	Steady!				An order to keep the helm as it is
	Staysail				A sail, which hoists upon a stay
	Stays				Large ropes, used to support masts, and leading from the head of some mast down to some other mast, or to some part of the vessel, those, which lead forward, are called fore-and-aft stays and those which lead down to the vessel`s sides, backstays,
	Stay sail				any sail attached to a stay
	Stay				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)
	Stay				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
	Staterooms				Private cabins in a ship
	Start				To start a cask, is to open it
	Starboard				The right side of a boat when looking forward
	Starboard				Right side of the ship when facing forward
	Starboard				The right side of a vessel, looking forward
	Starboard				Right side of the vessel when facing forward
	Star bowlines				The familiar term for the men in the starboard watch
	Standing rigging				Shrouds and stays that secure the yards and mast in place
	Standing rigging				That part of a vessel`s rigging, which is made fast and not, hauled upon, see Running
	Standing part				That part of a line which is made fast, the main part of a line as distinguished from the bight and the end
	Standing				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
	Standard				An inverted knee, placed above the deck instead of beneath it as, bill-standard
	Stand-on vessel				That vessel which continues its course in the same direction at the same speed during a crossing or overtaking situation, unless a collision appears imminent (Was formerly called the privileged vessel)
	Stand by!				An order to be prepared
	Stanchions				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
	Staff				A pole or mast, used to hoist flags upon
	Stabber				A Pricker
	Square-sail				Is the oldest type of sail, its is a square or rectangular sail held horizontal by a yard
	Square-rigger				Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal beems called yards
	Square rig				A ship carrying square sails
	Square knot				A knot used to join two lines of similar size, also called a reef knot
	Square knot				Used for tying two ropes together
	Square				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
	Squall				A sudden, violent wind often accompanied by rain
	Squall				A sudden violent blast of wind
	Spurs				Pieces of timber fixed on the bilge-ways, their upper ends being bolted to the vessel`s sides above the water, also curved pieces of timber, serving as half beams, to support the decks where whole beams cannot be placed
	Spurling line				A line communicating between the tiller and tell-tale
	Spur-shoes				Large pieces of timber that come abaft the pump-well
	Spunyarn				A cord formed by twisting together two or three rope-yarns
	Sprit-sail-yard				A yard lashed across the bowsprit or knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib and flying jib-boom, there was formerly a sail bent to it called a sprit-sail
	Sprit				A small boom or gaff, used with some sails in small boats, the lower end rests in a becket or snotter by the foot of the mast, and the other end spreadsß and raises the outer upper corner of the sail, crossing it diagonally, a sail so rigged in a
	Spring-stay				A preventer-stay, to assist the regular one, see Stay
	Spring tides				The highest and lowest course of tides, occurring every new and full moon
	Spring line				A pivot line used in docking, undocking, or to prevent the boat from moving forward or astern while made fast to a dock
	Spring line				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
	Spring				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
	Spreaders				Small spars between the mast and shrouds
	Spray				An occasional sprinkling dashed from the top of a wave by the wind, or by its striking an object
	Spoondrift				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
	Spoon				To run befor a gale (scud)
	Splice				To permanently join two ropes by tucking their strands alternately over and under each other
	Splice				To join two ropes together by interweaving their strands
	Spirketing				The planks from the waterways to the port-sills
	Spinnaker				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
	Spindle				An iron pin upon which the capstan moves, also a piece of timber forming the diameter of a made mast, also any long pin or bar upon which anything revolves
	Spilling line				A rope used for spilling a sail, rove in bad weather
	Spill				To shake the wind out of a sail by bracing it so that the wind may strike its leech and shiver it
	Spencer				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
	Spell				The common term for a portion of time given to any work, to spell is to relieve another at his work, Spell ho! An exclamation used as an order or request to be relieved at work by another
	Spar				A pole or a beam
	Spar				The general term for all masts, yards, booms, gaffs
	Spanker				The after sail of a ship or bark, it is a fore-and-aft sail, setting with a boom and gaff
	Span				A rope with both ends made fast, for a purchase to be hooked to its bight
	Sound				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
	Sole				The inside deck of the ship, a piece of timber fastened to the foot of the rudder, to make it level with the false keel
	So!				An order to vast hauling upon anything when it has come to its right position
	Snying				A term for a circular plank edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel
	Snub				To check a rope suddenly
	Snow				A kind of brig, formerly used
	Snotter				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
	Snatch block				A single block, with an opening in its side below the sheave, or at the bottom, to receive the bight of a rope
	Snake				To pass small stuff across a seizing, with marling hitches at the outer turns
	Small stuff				The term for spunyarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, such as ratline-stuff
	Slue				To turn anything round or over
	Sloop of war				A vessel of any rig, mounting between 18 and 32 guns
	Sloop				A single-masted vessel with working sails (main and jib) set fore and aft
	Sloop				A single-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a single headsail set from the forestay
	Slip-rope				A rope bent to the cable just outside the hawsehole, and brought in on the weather quarter, for slipping
	Slip				To let a cable go and stand out to sea
	Slings				The ropes used for securing the center of a yard to the mast, Yard-slings are now made of iron, also a large rope fitted so as to go round any article, which is to be hoisted or lowered
	Sling				To set a cask, spar, gun, or other article, in ropes, so as to put on a tackle and hoist or lower it
	Sleepers				The knees that connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship`s quarter
	Slack in stays				Said of a vessel when she works slowly in tacking
	Slack				Not fastened, loose, to loosen
	Slack				The part of a rope or sail that hangs down loose
	Slabline				A small line used to haul up the foot of a course
	Skysail				A light sail next above the royal
	Sky-scraper				A name given to a skysail when it is triangular
	Skipper				The captain of a ship
	Skin				The part of a sail, which is outside and covers the rest when it is furled, also familiarly, the sides of the hold as, an article is said to be stowed next the skin
	Skids				Pieces of timber placed up and down a vessel`s side, to bear any articles off clear that are hoisted in
	Sister block				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
	Sills				Pieces of timber put in horizontally between the frames to form and secure any opening as, for ports
	Signals				Certain alarms or notices used to communicate intelligence to a distant object at sea, signals are made by firing artillery, and displaying colours, lanthorns, or fire-works and these are combined by multiplication and repetition
	Shrouds				Run from the top of the mast to the port (left) and starboard (right) side of the hull to give sideways support
	Shroud				A line or wire running from the top of the mast to the spreaders, then attaching to the side of the vessel
	Shore				A prop or stanchion, placed under a beam
	Shoe-block				A block with two sheaves, one above the other, the one horizontal and the other perpendicular
	Shoe				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
	Shoal				An offshore hazard to navigation at a depth of 16 fathoms (30 meters or 96 feet) or less, composed of unconsolidated material
	Shoal				An area of the sea that is shallow, especially at low tide
	Shiver				To shake the wind out of a sail by bracing it so that the wind strikes upon the leech
	Ship				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
	Shingle				See Ballast
	Shellback				An old sailor who has a vast knowledge of seamanship and who is able to pass on their knowledge, the name come from being at sea for so long seashells grew on his back, can also be used to identify an old fashion seaman
	Shell				The principal function of the shell is to act as a watertight skin, it also gives strength to the construction of intermediate parts, the outer part or body of a block in which the sheave revolves
	Sheetbend				Knot used to tie two ropes of unequal thickness together
	Sheet-anchor				A vessel`s largest anchor not carried at the bow
	Sheet bend				A knot used to join two ropes, functionally different from a square knot in that it can be used between lines of different diameters
	Sheet				Adjusts a sails angle to the wind
	Sheet				A rope used in setting a sail, to keep the clew down to its place, with square sails, the sheets run through each yard-arm, with boom sails, they haul the boom over one way and another, they keep down the inner clew of a studdingsail and the after
	Sheer - sheer-strake				The line of plank on a vessel`s side, running fore-and-aft under the gunwale, also a vessel`s position when riding by a single anchor
	Sheep-shank				A kind of hitch or bend, used to shorten a rope temporarily
	Sheave-hole				the place cut in a block for the ropes to reeve through
	Sheave				The wheel in a block upon which the rope works
	Sheathing				A casing or covering on a vessel`s bottom
	Shears				Two or more spars, raised at angles and lashed together near their upper ends, used for taking in masts
	Shear pin				A safety device, used to fasten a propeller to its shaft, it breaks when the propeller hits a solid object, thus preventing further damage
	Shear hulk				An old vessel fitted with shears and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vessels
	Sharp up				Said of yards when braced as near fore-and-aft as possible
	Shank-painter				A strong rope by which the lower part of the shank of an anchor is secured to the ship`s side
	Shank				The main piece in an anchor, at one end of which the stock is made fast, and at the other the arms
	Shakes				The staves of hogsheads taken apart
	Shackles				Links in a chain cable, which are fitted with a movable bolt so that the chain can be separated
	Shackle				A U shaped connector with a pin or bolt across the open end
	Set				To set up rigging, is to tauten it by tackles, the seizings are then put on afresh
	Service				The stuff so wound round
	Serve				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
	Sennit - sinnit				A braid, formed by plaiting rope-yarns or spunyarn together, straw, plaited in the same way for hats, is called sennit
	Send				When a ship`s head or stern pitches suddenly and violently into the trough of the sea
	Semi				Dreadnoughts included an intermediate battery of 8-10 inch guns
	Selvagee				A skein of rope-yarns or spunyarn, marled together, used as a neat strap
	Seizings				The fastenings of ropes that are seized together
	Seize				To fasten ropes together by turns of small stuff
	Secure				To make fast
	Secure				To make fast
	Seams				The intervals between planks in a vessel`s deck or side
	Sea cock				A through hull valve, a shut off on a plumbing or drain pipe between the vessel`s interior and the sea boat
	Sea anchor				Any device used to reduce a boats drift before the wind
	Scuttlebutt				A cask with a hole cut in its bilge, and kept on deck to hold water for daily use
	Scuttlebutt				See Butt
	Scuttle				A hole cut in a vessel`s deck, as a hatchway, also a hole cut in any part of a vessel
	Scurvy				Disease historically common to seaman, was caused by lack of Vitamin C
	Scuppers				Holes cut in the water-ways for the water to run from the decks
	Scuppers				Holes through the shipsides, which drain water at, deck level over the side
	Scupper				An opening in the side of a ship at deck level to allow water to run off, an opening for draining off water, as from a floor or the roof of a building
	Scull				A short oar
	Scud				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
	Scrowl				A piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure-head
	Scrimshaw				A sailors carving or etching on bones, teeth, tusks or shells
	Screw				A boats propeller
	Scraper				A small, triangular iron instrument, with a handle fitted to its center, and used for scraping decks and masts
	Scotchman				A large batten placed over the turnings-in of rigging, see Batten
	Score				A groove in a block or dead-eye
	Scope				The ratio of the length of an anchor line, from a vessels bow to the anchor, to the depth of the water
	Schooner				First seen among 19th-century ships, it is multimasted and furls triangular sails, the foremost mast is always shorter than the others
	Schooner				sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the mainmast being the taller, word derives from the term schoon/scoon meaning to move smoothly and quickly (a 3-masted vessel is called a tern)
	Scarf				To join two pieces of timber at their ends by shaving them down and placing them over-lapping
	Scantling				A term applied to any piece of timber, with regard to its breadth and thickness, when reduced to the standard size
	Scandalize				Method of reducing sail by taking up the tack and lowering the peak on fore and aft sails, on a square rig ship the yards are not set square to the masts when the ship is at anchor, used as a sign for mourning or a death on board, mid 19th cent al
	Save-all				A small sail sometimes set under the foot of a lower studdingsail, See Water Sail
	Salon - saloon				Main social cabin of a boat
	Sailing rig				the equipment used to sail a boat, including sails, booms and gaffs, lines and blocks
	Sail ho!				The cry used when a sail is first discovered at sea
	Sail				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
	Sag				To sag to leeward, is to drift off bodily to leeward
	Saddles				Pieces of wood hollowed out to fit on the yards to which they are nailed, having a hollow in the upper part for the boom to rest in
	Running rigging				Lines which run through pulleys and block and tackle, that are used to adjust the sails and yards
	Running lights				Lights required to be shown on boats underway between sundown and sunup
	Running lights				Navigation lights tell other vessels not only where you are, but what you are doing
	Runner				A rope used to increase the power of a tackle, it is rove through a single block which you wish to bring down, and a tackle is hooked to each end, or to one end, the other being made fast
	Rung-heads				The upper ends of the floor-timbers
	Run				The after part of a vessel`s bottom, which rises and narrows in approaching the sternpost
	Rudder-chains				Lead from the outer and upper end of the rudder to the quarters, they are hung slack
	Rudder				A vertical plate or board for steering a boat
	Rudder				A fin or blade attached under the hullãs sstern used for steering
	Rubber				A small instrument used to rub or flatten down the seams of a sail in sail making
	Royal yard				The yard from which the royal is set, the fourth from the deck
	Royal				A light sail next above a topgallant sail
	Rowlocks - rollocks				Places cut in the gunwale of a boat for the oar to rest in while pulling
	Rounding				A service of rope, hove round a spar or larger rope
	Roundhouse				The officers` head, at the front of the ship, it was a small round cubicle that provided privacy and protection from the elements, a name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant ships, to square cabins built on the after-part of the qu
	Round up				To haul up on a tackle
	Round in				To haul in on a rope, especially a weather-brace
	Rough-tree				An unfinished spar
	Rope-yarn				A thread of hemp, or other stuff, of which a rope is made
	Rope-bands - robands				Small pieces of two or three yarn spunyarn or marline, used to confine the head of the sail to the yard or gaff
	Rope				In general, cordage as it is purchased at the store, when it comes aboard a vessel and is put to use, it becomes a line
	Rope cutter				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
	Rombowline				Condemned canvass, rope
	Rolling tackle				Tackles used to steady the yards in a heavy sea
	Roll				The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternately to port and starboard, the motion of a boat about its fore-and-aft axis
	Rode				The anchor line and/or chain
	Rode				The anchor line and/or chain
	Robands				See Rope-Band
	Road - roadstead				An anchorage at some distance from the shore
	Roach				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
	Ring-tail				A small sail, shaped like a jib, set abaft the spanker in light winds
	Ring-bolt				An eye-bolt with a ring through the eye, see Eye-Bolt
	Ring				The iron ring at the upper end of an anchor, to which the cable is bent
	Rim				The edge of a top
	Right				To right the helm, is to put it amidships
	Rigging	Aparejo			The lines that hold up the masts and move the sails (standing and running rigging)
	Riders				Interior timbers placed occasionally opposite the principal ones, to which they are bolted, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, also, casks forming the second tier in a vessel`s hold
	Ride at anchor				To lie at anchor, also to bend or bear down by main strength and weight as, to ride down the main tack
	Ribs				A figurative term for a vessel`s timbers
	Rib-bands				Long, narrow, flexible pieces of timber nailed to the outside of the ribs, so as to encompass the vessel lengthwise
	Render				To pass a rope through a place, a rope is said to render or not, according as it goes freely through any place
	Relieving tackle				A tackle hooked to the tiller in a gale of wind, to steer by in case anything should happen to the wheel or tiller-ropes
	Reeve				To pass the end of a rope through a block, or any aperture
	Reefing				The operation of reducing a sail by taking in one or more of the reefs
	Reef-tackle				A tackle used to haul the middle of each leech up toward the yard, so that the sail may be easily reefed
	Reef-bands				Pieces of canvass, about six inches wide, sewed on the fore part of sails, where the points are fixed for reefing the sail
	Reef points				Short Line the reef band to secure the foot of the sail
	Reef				To reduce the sail area
	Reef				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
	Red jack				Red flag used by pirates prior to 1700 replace by black flag
	Razee				A vessel of war, which has had one deck, cut down
	Rattle down rigging				To put ratlines upon rigging, it is still called rattling down, though they are now rattled up beginning at the lowest
	Ratlines				(Pronounced rat-lins), lines running across the shrouds, horizontally, like the rounds of a ladder, and used to step upon in going aloft
	Rating				The status of a seaman in officers it is their rank
	Range of cable				A quantity of cable, more or less, placed in order for letting go the anchor or paying out
	Ramline				A line used in mast-making to get a straight middle line on a spar
	Rake				The inclination of a mast from the perpendicular
	Raddle				Used to decribe material used to make flat gaskets for securing boats when hoisted on to the davits
	Rack-block				A course of blocks made from one piece of wood, for fair-leaders
	Rack				To seize two ropes together, with cross-turns, also a fair-leader for running rigging
	Race				A strong, rippling tide
	Rabbet				An incission in a piece of timber to receive the planks or timbers secured to it eg the garboard and the keel
	Quoin				A wooden wedge for the breech of a gun to rest upon
	Quilting				A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven together
	Quick-work				That part of a vessel`s side which is above the chain-wales and decks, so called in ship-building
	Queen topsail				Small stay sail located between the foremast and mainmast
	Quay				Wharf used to discharge cargo
	Quartering sea				Sea coming on a boats quarter
	Quartering sea				Winds and waves on a boat`s quarter
	Quarter-master				A petty officer in a man-of-war, who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, and watches for signals
	Quarter-deck				That part of the upper deck abaft the main-mast
	Quarter-block				A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve through
	Quarter				The sides of a boat aft of amidships
	Quarter				The part of a vessel`s side between the after part of the main chains and the stern, the quarter of a yard is between the slings and the yard-arm, the wind is said to be quartering, when it blows in a line between that of the keel and the beam and
	Q flag				All yellow signal flag meaning My vessel is healthy and I request free pratique
	Purchase				Any sort of mechanical power employed in raising or removing heavy bodies
	Pump-brake				The handle to the pump
	Puddening				A quantity of yarns, matting or oakum, used to prevent chafing
	Propeller				A rotating device, with two or more blades, that acts as a screw in propelling a vessel
	Prize money				The proceeds from the sale of captured vessells aearded by the Admiralty
	Prize				An enemy vessel captured
	Pricker				A small marlinspike, used in sail-making, it generally has a wooden handle
	Price				A quantity of spunyarn or rope laid close up together
	Preventer				Line and/or tackle which limits the movement of the boom, usually for the purpose of preventing accidents or an extra rope, to assist another
	Predreadnoughts				Had a main battery of 10-12 inch guns, and a secondary battery of 5-6 inch guns, semi-dreadnoughts included an intermediate battery of 8-10 inch guns, dreadnoughts had a uniform main battery of 10-12 inch guns, in number at least twice as many as
	Portoise				The gunwale, the yards are a-portoise when they rest on the gunwale
	Portage				To carry goods or boat between two navigatible points
	Port-sills				See Sills
	Port - port-hole				Holes in the side of a vessel, to point cannon out of, see Bridle
	Port	Babor	Bakboord		The left side of a boat looking forward, a harbor
	Port				Used instead of larboard, to port the helm, is to put it to the larboard
	Port				Left side of vessel when facing forward
	Poppets				Perpendicular pieces of timber fixed to the fore-and-aft part of the bilge-ways in launching
	Poop				A deck raised over the after part of the spar deck, a vessel is pooped when the sea breaks over her stern
	Pommelion				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
	Pole				Applied to the highest mast of a ship, usually painted, as skysail pole
	Point				To take the end of a rope and work it over with knittles, see Reef-Points
	Plug				A piece of wood, fitted into a hole in a vessel or boat, so as to let in or keep out water
	Plate				See Chain-Plate
	Plat				A braid of foxes, see Fox
	Planks				Thick, strong boards, used for covering the sides and decks of vessels
	Planking				wood boards that cover the frames outside the hull
	Planing hull				A type of hull shaped to glide easily across the water at high speed
	Pitchpole				To turn end over end in very rough seas
	Pitching				The movement of a ship, by which she plunges her head and after-part alternately into the hollow of the sea
	Pitch				The alternating rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves, the theoretical distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution, tar and resin used for caulking between the planks of a wooden vessel
	Pitch				A resin taken from pine, and used for filling up the seams of a vessel
	Pintle				A metal bolt, used for hanging a rudder
	Pinnace				A boat, in size between the launch and a cutter
	Pinky				"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
	Pink-stern				A high, narrow stern
	Pin				The axis on which a sheave turns, also a short piece of wood or iron to belay ropes to
	Piloting				Navigation by using visible references
	Pilothouse				A small cabin on the deck of the ship that protects the steering wheel and the crewman steering
	Pillow				A block, which supports the inner end of the bowsprit
	Pillar of the hold				A main stanchion with notches for descent and ascent
	Pier				A loading/landing platform extending at an angle from the shore
	Pfd - personal flotation devices				Better known as life jackets
	Personal flotation device (pfd)				Official terminology for life jacket, when properly used a PFD will support a person in the water, available in several sizes and types
	Personal watercraft (pwc)				Official terminology for jetskis
	Pennant				Any nautical flags that taper to a point and used for identification
	Pendant - pennant				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
	Pendant				The line by which a boat is connected to a mooring buoy, a short rope hanging from a spar having at its free end a spliced thimble or a block
	Peak				Outer end of the gaff -upper aft corner of a gaff sail, see A-Peak, a stay-peak is when the cable and fore stay form a line, a short stay-peak is when the cable is too much in to form this line
	Pazaree				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
	Pay-off				When a vessel`s head falls off from the wind, to pay, to cover over with tar or pitch
	Pay out				To ease out a line, or let it run in a controlled manner
	Pay out				To feed line over the side of the boat, hand over hand
	Pawl				A short bar of iron, which prevents the capstan or windlass from turning back, to pawl is to drop a pawl and secure the windlass or capstan
	Paunch mat				A thick mat, placed at the slings of a yard or elsewhere
	Partners				A frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump
	Part				To break a rope
	Parral				The rope by which a yard is confined to a mast at its center
	Parliament-heel				The situation of a vessel when she is careened
	Parcelling				See Parcel
	Parcel a rope				Is to put a narrow piece of canvass (called parceling) round it before the service is put on
	Parbuckle				To hoist or lower a spar or cask by single ropes passed round it
	Panch				See Paunch
	Palm				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
	Painter				A line attached to the bow of a boat for use in towing or making fast
	Painter				A rope attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast
	Overhaul				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
	Overboard				Over the side or out of the boat
	Over-rake				Said of heavy seas, which come over a vessel`s head when she is at anchor, head to the sea
	Outdrive				inboard/outboard - A propulsion system for boats with an inboard engine operating an exterior drive, with drive shaft, gears, and propeller also called stern drive and Z-drive
	Outboard				Toward or beyond the boats sides, a detachable engine mounted on a boats stern
	Out-rigger - outrigger				A spar rigged out to windward from the tops or cross-trees, to spread the breast-backstays
	Out-haul				A rope used for hauling out the clew of a boom sail
	Orlop				The lower deck of a ship of the line or that on which the cables are stowed
	Open hawse				When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables
	On the weather or lee beam				Is in a direction to windward or leeward, at right angles with the keel
	On beam ends				The situation of a vessel when turned over so that her beams are inclined toward the vertical
	Offing				Distance from the shore
	Off-and-on				To stand on different tacks towards and from the land
	Oar				A long wooden instrument with a flat blade at one end, used for propelling boats
	Oakum				tarred hemp or manila fibers made from old and condemned ropes, which have been picked apart, they were used for caulking the seams of decks and sides of a wooden ship in order to make them watertight
	Nut				Projections on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock to its place
	Nun buoy				Red tapered navigation buoy
	Nock				The forward upper end of a sail that sets with a boom
	Nippers				A number of yarns marled together, used to secure a cable to the messenger
	Nip				A short turn in a rope
	Ninepin block				A block in the form of a ninepin, used for a fair-leader in the rail
	Nettles				See Knittles
	Netting				Network of rope or small lines, used for stowing away sails or hammocks
	Net tonnage				Vessels measurement of cargo carrying capacity
	Near				Close to wind, Near! the order to the helmsman when he is too near the wind
	Neaped - beneaped				The situation of a vessel when she is aground at the height of the spring tides
	Neap tides	Bajamar	Laagwater		Low tides, coming at the middle of the moon`s second and fourth quarters, see Spring Tides
	Navigation				The art and science of conducting a boat safely from one point to another
	Navigation				The art of getting vessel from one port to the next port
	Navigate				To steer or manage a ship, to sail or voyage over water
	Navigable				An area with sufficient depth of water to permit vessel passage
	Naval hoods - hawse bolsters				Plank above and below the hawse-holes
	Nautical mile				According to Websters: any of various units of distance used for sea and air navigation, an international unit equal to 6076,115 feet (1852 meters), about 1/8 longer than the statute mile of 5280 feet
	Nautical mile				A measurement used by sailors that equals 6,080 feet (a land mile is 5,280 feet)
	Nautical mile				nm = 1853 meters = 2000 yards = 6080 feet Contrary to some earlier replies, a nautical mile is (or was) the length of a minute of latitude at the latitude in question, not at the equator (Since the Earth isn`t a perfect sphere, the length on the s
	Murderer				Small iron or brass hand gun used for anti-personnel defence (agains boarders) aboard ship, a spike was provide to allow the weapon to used a various places around the ship
	Munions				The pieces that separate the lights in the galleries
	Muffle				Putting mats or canvass round their looms in the rowlocks muffles oars
	Mousing				A knot or puddening, made of yarns, and placed on the outside of a rope
	Mouse				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
	Moulds				The patterns by which the frames of a vessel are worked out
	Mortice				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
	Moorings				Are usually an assemblage of anchors, chains, and bridles, laid athwart the bottom of the river, or haven, to ride the shipping contained therein, the anchors, employed on this occasion, have rarely more than one fluke, which is sunk in the river
	Mooring buoy				A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom
	Mooring				An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier
	Mooring				The act of confining and securing a ship in, a particular station, by chains or cables, which are either fastened to the adjacent shore, or to anchors in the bottom, a ship may be either moored by the head, (affourcher, Fr), or by the head and ste
	Moor				To secure by two anchors
	Mooncusser				Legendary opportunists who lured vessels onto shoals during nights when there was no moonlight to illuminate the coastline
	Moon-sail				A small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail
	Monohull				A boat with one hull
	Monkey rail				In older wooden vessels, a topgallant rail above the quarter-deck or poop bulwarks (quarter boards), in modern vessels, a small rail above ship`s stern enclosing standing-room for an officer supervising handling of mooring-lines in docking
	Monkey jacket				Close fitting serge jacket, also known as Jackanaapes coat
	Monkey block				A small single block strapped with a swivel, also the blocks fasterned to the yard through which buntlines are roved
	Mizzenmast				The aftermost mast of a ship, the spanker is sometimes called the mizzen
	Miss-stays				To fail of going about from one tack to another
	Midships				The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel, see Amid-Ships
	Messenger				A rope used for heaving in a cable by the capstan
	Mess				Any number of men who eat or lodge together
	Meshes				The places between the lines of netting
	Mend				To mend service, is to add more to it
	Maul				See Mall
	Mate				An officer under the master
	Mat				Made of strands of old rope, and used to prevent chafing
	Mast				A spar set upright to support rigging and sails
	Mast				A spar set upright from the deck, to support rigging, yards and sails, masts are whole or made
	Martingale				A short perpendicular spar, under the bowsprit-end, used for guying down the head-stays, see Dolphin Striker
	Marry				To join ropes together by a worming over both
	Marlinspike				An iron pin, sharpened at one end, and having a hole in the other for a lanyard, used both as a fid and a heaver
	Marling-hitch				A kind of hitch used in marling
	Marlinespike				A tool for weaving and splicing rope
	Marlinespike				A tool for opening the strands of a rope while splicing
	Marline				(Pronounced mar-lin), small two-stranded stuff, used for marling, a finer kind of spunyarn
	Marl				To wind or twist a small line or rope round another
	Maritime				Located on or near the sea
	Mare liberum				A navigable body of water, such as sea, that is open to navigation by vessels of all nations
	Mare clausum				A navigable body of water, such as sea, that is under the jurisdication of one nation and closed to all others
	Marconi rig				The most common type of sail used today, a triangle-shaped mainsail defined by the mast and one horizontal beam perpendicular to the mast called a boom
	Manropes				Ropes used in going up and down a vessel`s side
	Manger				A coaming just within the hawsehole
	Man-of-war				A warship intended for comba, usually carrying between 20 and 120 guns
	Mallet				A small maul, made of wood as caulking-mallet, also serving-mallet, used in putting service on a rope
	Mall - maul				(Pronounced mawl), A heavy iron hammer used in driving bolts, see Top-Maul
	Mainsail				The sail set on the mainmast, the lowest square sail on the mainmast
	Mainmast				The tallest mast of the ship, on a schooner the mast furthest aft
	Maiden voyage				A new boat`s first trip
	Made				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
	Lying-to				See Lie-To
	Lurch				The sudden rolling of a vessel to one side
	Lugger				A small vessel carrying lug-sails
	Lug-still				A sail used in boats and small vessels, bent to a yard, which hangs obliquely to the mast
	Luff-upon-luff				A luff tackle applied to the fall of another
	Luff-tackle				A purchase composed of a double and single block
	Luff up				To steer the boat more into the wind, thereby causing the sails to flap or luff
	Lubbers line				A mark or permanent line on a compass indicating the direction forward, parallel to the keel when properly installed
	Loom				That part of an oar which is within the row-lock, also to appear above the surface of the water to appear larger than nature, as in a fog
	Loof				That part of a vessel where the planks begin to bend as they approach the stern
	Longitudinals				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
	Longitude				The distance in degrees east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England
	Longers				The longest casks, stowed next the keelson
	Longboat				The largest boat in a merchant vessel, when at sea, it is carried between the fore and main masts
	Long-timbers				Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from the deadwood to the head of the second futtock
	Log - logbook				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
	Log				A record of courses or operation, also a device to measure speed
	Log				Record of details of a voyage made by a ship`s captain or crew, also a device for measure
	Lodging-knees				Placed horizontally, having one arm bolted to a beam, and the other across two of the timbers
	Locker				A chest or box, to stow anything away in
	Lizard				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
	List				The inclination of a vessel to one side as, a list to port, or a list to starboard
	Lines drawing				A plan showing, in three views, the moulded surface of the vessel
	Lines				ropes used for various purposes aboard a boat
	Line				Rope and cordage used aboard a vessel
	Limbers - limber-holes				Holes cut in the lower part of the floor-timbers, next the keelson, forming a passage for the water fore-and-aft
	Limber-streak				The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson
	Limber-rope				A rope rove fore-and-aft through the limbers, to clear them if necessary
	Limber-boards				Placed over the limbers, and are movable
	Lighter				Large boat, used in loading and unloading vessels
	Light				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
	Lift				rope or tackle, going from the yardarms to the masthead, to support and move the yard, also a term applied to the sails when the wind strikes them on the leeches and raises them slightly
	Life-lines				Ropes carried along yards, booms, or at any part of the vessel, for men to hold on by
	Lie-to				is to stop the progress of a vessel at sea, either by counterbracing the yards, or by reducing sail so that she will make little or no headway, but will merely come to and fall off by the counteraction of the sails and helm
	Lend-a-hand				Assist
	Legend				A group of symbols and definitions on a chart or map
	Leeway				The sideways movement of the boat caused by either wind or current
	Leeway				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
	Leeward				The direction away from the wind, opposite of windward
	Leeward				(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
	Leefange				An iron bar, upon which the sheets of fore-and-aft sails traverse, also a rope rove through the cringle of a sail which has a bonnet to it, for hauling in, so as to lace on the bonnet
	Leech				After edge of a fore and aft sail
	Lee-gage				See Gage
	Lee-board				A board fitted to the lee side of flat-bottomed boats, to prevent their drifting to leeward
	Lee				The side sheltered from the wind, if a vessel has the wind on her starboard side, that will be the weather, and the larboard will be the lee side, under the lee of anything, is when you have that between you and the wind, by the lee, the situation
	Ledges				Small pieces of timber placed athwart-ships under the decks of a vessel, between the beams
	Ledges				Underwater rock ridges and mountains that rise near the surface of the sea
	Leak				A hole or breach in a vessel, at which the water comes in
	League				Measure of distance three miles in length
	Leading-wind				A fair wind, more particularly applied to a wind abeam or quartering
	Lead				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
	Leachline				A rope used for hauling up the leach of a sail
	Leach				See Leech
	Lazyjacks				lines from topping lifts to under boom, which act as a net to catch the sails when lowered
	Lazarette				A storage compartment in the stern
	Lay				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
	Launch large				The Long-Boat
	Latitude				The distance north or south of the equator measured and expressed in degrees
	Latchings				Loops on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is laced to the foot of the sail
	Large				A vessel is said to be going large, when she has the wind free
	Larbowlines				The familiar term for the men in the larboard watch
	Larboard				The left side of a vessel, looking forward
	Lanyard				A shot line used for making anything fast or used as a handle, ropes rove through dead-eyes for setting up rigging
	Langrel				See Canister
	Langrace				See Canister
	Landlubber				What you are if you`re not a seaman
	Land-fall				The making land after being at sea, a good land-fall, is when a vessel makes the land as intended
	Land ho!				The cry used when land is first seen
	Lacustrine				Of or relating to lakes, living or growing in or along the edges of lakes
	Lacing				Rope used to lash a sail to a gaff, or a bonnet to a sail, also a piece of compass or knee timber, fayed to the back of the figure-head and the knee of the head, and bolted to each
	Labor				A vessel is said to labor when she rolls or pitches heavily
	Knot				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 two s
	Knot				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
	Knot				Speed through water, the velocity in nautical miles (6,080 feet) per hour, also turns taken in a line for fastening
	Knockabout				A type of schooner without a bowsprit
	Knock-off!				An order to leave off work
	Knittles - nettles				The halves of two adjoining yarns in a rope, twisted up together, for pointing or grafting, also small line used for seizings and for hammock-clews
	Knight-heads - bollard timbers				The timbers next the stem on each side, and continued high enough to form a support for the bowsprit
	Knees				Supporting braces used for strength when two parts are joined
	Knees				Crooked pieces of timber, having two arms, used to connect the beams of a vessel with her timbers, see Dagger
	Knee of the head				Placed forward of the stem, and supports the figurehead
	Kink				A Twist In A Rope
	King spoke				Marked top spoke on a wheel when the rudder is centered
	Kevel-heads				Timber-heads, used as kevels
	Kevel - cavel				A strong piece of wood, bolted to some timber or stanchion, used for belaying large ropes to
	Ketch-two-masted boats				the after mast shorter, but with a ketch the after mast is forward of the rudder post
	Ketch				A two-masted sailboat with the smaller after mast stepped ahead of the rudderpost
	Kentledge				Pig-iron ballast, laid each side of the keelson
	Keelson				A timber placed over the keel on the floor-timbers, and running parallel with it
	Keel-haul				To pass a person backwards and forwards under a ship`s keel, for certain offences
	Keel				The centerline of a boat running fore and aft, the backbone of a vessel
	Keel				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
	Kedge				To use an anchor to move a boat by hauling on the anchor rode, a basic anchor type
	Kedge				A small anchor, with an iron stock, used for warping, to kedge is to warp a vessel ahead by a kedge and hawser
	Keckling				Old rope wound round cables, to keep them from chafing, see Rounding
	Jury-mast				A temporary mast, rigged at sea, in place of one lost
	Junk				Condemned rope, cut up and used for making mats, swabs, oakum
	Jolly-boat				A small boat, usually hoisted at the stern
	Jigger				Aft sail on the mizzenmast of a yawl or a ketch, after mast (4th mast) on schooner or sailing ship carrying a spanker, a small tackle used about decks or aloft
	Jibe				To go from one tack to the other when running with the wind coming over the stern
	Jibboom				Spar forward of bowsprit to which the the tack of the jib is lashed
	Jib sheet				The lines that lead from the clew of the jib
	Jib				Triangular foresail in front of the foremast, flying jib sets outside of the jib and the jib-o`-jib outside of that
	Jewel-blocks				Single blocks at the yard-arms, through which the studdingsail halyards lead
	Jetty				A man made structure projecting from the shore, breakwater protecting a harbor entrance
	Jettison				To cast overboard or off, Informal to discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome
	Jettison				to throw overboard
	Jettison				To throw overboard
	Jetsam				Those things that sink in the water - they don`t float like flotsam
	Jeers				Tackles for hoisting the lower yards
	Jaws				The inner ends of booms or gaffs, hollowed in
	Jacobs ladder				A rope ladder with wooden steps
	Jackstay				A strong line or wire stay running from bow to stern along the sides of a boat
	Jack-stays				Ropes stretched taut along a yard to bend the head of the sail to, also long strips of wood or iron, used now for the same purpose
	Jack-staff				A short staff, raised at the bowsprit cap, upon which the Union Jack is hoisted
	Jack-screw				A purchase, used for stowing cotton
	Jack-cross-trees				Iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant masts
	Jack-block				A block used in sending topgallant masts up and down
	Jack line				A strong line, or a wire stay running fore and aft along the sides of a boat to which a safety harness can be attached
	Jack				A common term for the jack-cross-trees, see Union
	Inner-post				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
	Inner sternpost				A post on the inside, corresponding to the sternpost
	Inboard				More toward the center of a vessel, inside, a motor fitted inside the boat
	In-and-out				A term sometimes used for the scantline (sic) of the timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bolts that are driven into the hanging and lodging knees, through the sides, which are called in-and-out bolts
	In stays - hore in stays				The situation of a vessel when she is staying, or going about from one tack to the other
	In irons				A sailboat with its bow pointed directly into the wind, preventing the sails from filling properly so that the boat can move
	Hypothermia				A life threatening condition in which the bodys temperature are subnormal and the entire body cools
	Hypothermia				The loss of body heat is the greatest danger for anyone in the water, as the body loses its heat, body functions slow, this can quickly lead to death
	Hypolimnion				The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold
	Hurricane				A strong tropical revolving storm of force 12(65 mph) or higher in the Northern Hemisphere, hurricanes revolve in a clockwise direction
	Hull				The main body of a vessel
	Hull				The main body of the boat, not including the deck, mast or cabins, see A-Hull
	Hull				The body of a boat
	Housing - house-line				(Pronounced houze-lin), A small cord made of three small yarns, and used for seizings
	House				To house a mast, is to lower it almost half its length, and secure it by lashing its heel to the mast below
	Hounds				Those projections at the masthead serving as shoulders for the top or trestle-trees to rest upon
	Horse				See Foot-rope
	Horse				Traveler-Metal or rope traveler to sheet a sail
	Horns				The jaws of booms, also the ends of crosstrees
	Hook-and-butt				The scarfing, or laying the ends of timbers over each other
	Hood-ends, or hooding-ends, or whooden-ends				Those ends of the planks, which fit into the rabbets of the stem or sternpost
	Hood				A covering for a companion hatch, skylight, etc
	Home				The sheets of a sail are said to be home, when the clews are hauled chock out to the sheave-holes, an anchor comes home when it is loosened from the ground and is hove in toward the vessel
	Holy-stone				A large stone, used for cleaning a ship`s decks
	Hold				A compartment below deck in a large vessel, used solely for carrying cargo
	Hold				the space for cargo below the deck of the ship
	Hold water				To stop the progress of a boat by keeping the oar-blades in the water
	Hogged				The state of a vessel when, by any strain, she is made to droop at each end, bringing her center up
	Hog				A flat rough broom, used for scrubbing the bottom of a vessel
	Hitch				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
	Hitch				A peculiar manner of fastening ropes
	High and dry				The situation of a vessel when she is aground, above watermark
	Helm-port-transom				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
	Helm-port				The hole in the counter through which the rudder-head passes
	Helm				The wheel or tiller controlling the rudder
	Helm				The machinery by which a vessel is steered, including the rudder, tiller, wheel, etc applied more particularly, perhaps, to the tiller steering apparatus
	Heeling				The square part of the lower end of a mast, through which the fid-hole is made
	Heel				To tip to one side
	Heel				The after part of the keel, also the lower end of a mast or boom, also the lower end of the sternpost
	Heaver				A short wooden bar, tapering at each end, used as a purchase
	Heave-to				To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, see Lie-to
	Heave to				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
	Heave short				To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor
	Heave in stays				To go about in tacking
	Heart-yarns				The center yarns of a strand
	Heart				A block of wood in the shape of a heart, for stays to reeve through
	Headway				The forward motion of a boat, opposite of sternway
	Headsails				Any sail forward of the foremast
	Heading				The direction in which a vessels bow points at any given time
	Head-ledges				The wartship pieces that frame the hatchways
	Head				A marine toilet, also the upper corner of a triangular sail
	Head				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
	Head				Ship toilet
	Haze				A term for punishing a man by keeping him unnecessarily at work upon disagreeable or difficult duty
	Hawser-laid - cable-laid rope				Is rope laid with nine strands against the sun
	Hawser				A large rope used for various purposes, as warping, for a spring
	Hawse-pieces				Timbers through which the hawse-holes are cut
	Hawse-hole				The hole in the bows through which the cable runs
	Hawse-block				A block of wood fitted into a hawse-hole at sea
	Hawse hole				A hole in the hull for mooring lines to run through
	Hawse				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
	Haul - haul her wind				Said of a vessel when she comes up close upon the wind
	Hatch-bar				An iron bar going across the hatches to keep them down
	Hatch or hatchway				An opening in the deck for entering below, covers for these openings
	Hatch				An opening in a boats deck fitted with a watertight cover
	Harpoon				A spear used for striking whales and other fish
	Harpings				The fore part of the wales, which encompass the bows of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem
	Harbour				A safe anchorage, protected from most storms may be natural or manmade, with breakwaters and jetties, a place for docking and loading
	Hanks				Rings or hoops of wood, rope, or iron, round a stay, and seized to the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
	Handy billy				A watch-tackle
	Handspike				A long wooden bar, used for heaving at the windlass
	Handsomely				Slowly, carefully, Used for an order, as, Lower handsomely
	Hand-over-hand				Hauling rapidly on a rope, by putting one hand before the other alternately
	Hand-lead				A small lead, used for sounding in rivers and harbors
	Hand				To hand a sail is to furl it
	Hammock				A piece of canvass, hung at each end, in which seamen sleep
	Halyards				lines used to haul up the sail and the wooden poles (boom and gaff) that hold the sails in place
	Halyard				Pulls up the sail
	Half hitch				Knot
	Hail				To speak or call to another vessel, or to men in a different part of a ship
	Gybe				(Pronounced jibe), to shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail
	Guy				A rope attaching to anything to steady it, and bear it one way and another in hoisting
	Gunwale (gunnel)	Barandilla			The upper railing of a boat`s side
	Gunwale				The upper edge of a boats sides
	Gun-tackle purchase				A purchase made by two single blocks
	Guess-warp - guess-rope				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
	Ground tackle				Anchor, anchor rode (line or chain), and all the shackles and other gear used for attachment
	Ground tackle				A collective term for the anchor and anchor gear and everything used in securing a vessel at anchor
	Grommet				A ring formed of rope, by laying round a single strand
	Gripes				Bars of iron, with lanyards, rings and clews, by which a large boat is lashed to the ringbolts of the deck, those for a quarter-boat are made of long strips of matting, going round her and set taut by a lanyard
	Gripe				The outside timber of the forefoot, under water, fastened to the lower stem-piece, a vessel gripes when she tends to come up into the wind
	Greave				To clean a ship`s bottom by burning
	Grating				Open latticework of wood, used principally to cover hatches in good weather
	Grappling irons				Crooked irons, used to seize and hold fast another vessel
	Grapnel				A small anchor with several claws, used to secure boats
	Grains				An iron with four or more barbed points to it, used for striking small fish
	Grafting				A manner of covering a rope by weaving together yarns
	Grab rails				Hand-held fittings mounted on cabin tops and side for personal safety when moving around the boat
	Gps				Global Positioning System, a satellite-based radio navigation used to determine position
	Goring-cloths				Pieces cut obliquely and put in to add to the breadth of a sail
	Gores				The angles at one or both ends of such cloths as increase the breadth or depth of a sail
	Gooseneck				The fitting, which secures the boom to the mast
	Goose-winged				The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee clew are hauled up, and the weather clew down
	Goodgeon				See Gudgeon
	Gob-line - gaub-line				A rope leading from the martingale inboard, the same as back-rope
	Gmt				Greenwich Meridian Time also known as Universal Time or Zulu time
	Glut				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
	Give way!				An order to men in a boat to pull with fore force, or to begin pulling, the same as, Lay out on your oars! Or, Lay out
	Give way vessel				A term, from the Navigational Rules, used to describe the vessel which must yield in meeting, crossing, or overtaking situations
	Girtline				A rope rove through a single block aloft, making a whip purchase, commonly used to hoist rigging by, in fitting it
	Girt				The situation of a vessel when her cables are too taut
	Gimblet				To turn an anchor round by its stock, to turn anything round on its end
	Genoa largest				Jib on a sailboat, also known as a genny
	Gear				A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment
	Gaskets				Ropes or pieces of plated stuff, used to secure a sail to the yard or boom when it is furled, they are called a bunt, quarter, or yardarm gasket, according to their position on the yard
	Gasket				Line used to secure a furled sail to the boom or yards
	Garnet				A purchase on the main stay, for hoisting cargo
	Garland				A large rope, strap or grommet, lashed to a spar when hoisting it inboard
	Garboard-strake				The range of planks next the keel, on each side
	Gantline				See Girtline
	Gangway				The area of a ships side where people board and disembark
	Gangway				That part of a vessel`s side, amidships, where people pass in and out of the vessel
	Gang-casks				Small casks, used for bring water on board in boats
	Gammoning				The lashing by which the bowsprit is secured to the cutwater
	Gallows				A frame used to rest the boom when the sail is down
	Galley				The kitchen area of a boat
	Galley				The kitchen of a ship
	Gage				The depth of water of a vessel, also her position as to another vessel, as having the weather
	Gaff-topsail				A light sail set over a gaff, the foot being spread by it
	Gaff rig				Four-sided mainsail defined by two booms, one located on the bottom, perpendicular to the mast, and another, located on top, at an angle from the mast
	Gaff				A spar to support the head of a gaff sail
	Gaff				A free-swinging spar attached to the top of a fore-and-aft sail
	Futtock-timbers				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
	Futtock-staff				A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the rigging, to which the catharpin legs are secured
	Futtock-shrouds				Short shrouds, leading from the lower ends of the futtock-plates to a bend round the lower mast, just below the top
	Futtock-plates				Iron plates crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly, the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are fitted to their upper ends, and the futtock-shrouds to their lower ends
	Furl				To roll a sail up snugly on a yard or boom, and secure it
	Full-and-by				Sailing close-hauled on a wind, the order given to the man at the helm to keep the sails full and at the same time close to the wind
	Freshen				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
	French-fake				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
	Freeboard				The minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale
	Free				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
	Frap				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
	Frames				the wooden ribs that form the shape of the hull
	Fox				Made by twisting together two or more rope-yarns, a Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way
	Founder				When a vessel fills with water and sinks
	Founder				A vessel founders, when she fills with water and sinks
	Fouled				Any piece of equipment that is jammed or entangled, or dirtied
	Foul hawse				When the two cables are crossed or twisted, outside the stem
	Foul				The term for the opposite of clear
	Foul anchor				When the cable has a turn round the anchor
	Fother, or fodder				To draw a sail, filled with oakum, under a vessel`s bottom, in order to stop a leak
	Forward				Toward the bow of the boat
	Forward				Toward the bow or stem
	Formers				Pieces of wood used for shaping cartridges or wads
	Forge				To forge ahead, to shoot ahead, as in coming to anchor, after the sails are furled, see Forereach
	Foresail				Is set on the foremast of a schooner or the lowest square sail on the foremast of Sq riggers
	Forereach				To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays
	Foremast				The mast in the forepart of a vessel, nearest the bow
	Forelock				A flat piece of iron, driven through the end of a bolt, to prevent its drawing
	Forefoot				A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel, upon which the lower end of the stem rests
	Fore-runner				A piece of rag, terminating the stray-line of the log-line
	Fore-ganger				A short piece of rope grafted on a harpoon, to which the line is bent
	Fore-and-aft				Lengthwise with the vessel, in opposition to athwart-ships, see Sails
	Fore mast				The forward mast of all vessels
	Fore and aft				In a line parallel to the keel
	Fore the forward				Part of the vessel
	Foot-waling				The inside planks or lining of a vessel, over the floor-timbers
	Foot-rope				The rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling, formerly called horses
	Foot				The lower end of a mast or sail, see Fore-Foot
	Following sea				An overtaking sea that comes from astern
	Fo`c`sle - fore castle				The extreme forward compartment of the vessel, that part of the upper deck forward of the fore mast, or, as some say, forward of the after part of the fore channels
	Flying jib				Sets outside of the jib and the jib-o`-jib outside of that
	Flying bridge				An added set of controls above the level of the normal control station for better visibility, usually open, but may have a collapsible top for shade
	Fly				That part of a flag, which extends from the Union to the extreme end, see Union
	Flukes				The broad triangular plates at the extremity of the arms of an anchor, terminating in a point called the bill
	Flowing sheet				When a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off
	Flotsam				Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat after a ship has sunk, floating refuse or debris
	Flotsam				Any stuff floating - trees, driftwood, wreckage, etc
	Floor timbers				Those timbers of a vessel, which are placed across the keel
	Floor				The bottom of a vessel, on each side of the keelson
	Flemish-eye				A kind of eye-splice
	Flemish coil				See French-Fake
	Fleet ho!				The order given at such times, also to shift the position of a block or fall, so as to haul to more advantage
	Fleet				To come up a tackle and draw the blocks apart, for another pull, after they have been hauled two-blocks
	Flat-aback				When a sail is blown with it`s after surface against the mast
	Flat				A sheet is said to be hauled flat, when it is hauled down close
	Flare				The outward curve of a vessels sides near the bow, a distress signal
	Flare				When the vessel`s sides go out from the perpendicular, in opposition to falling-home or tumbling-in
	Flame arrester				A safety device, such as a metal mesh protector, to prevent an exhaust backfire from causing an explosion, operates by absorbing heat
	Fishhook				A hook with a pennant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked
	Fish-tackle				The tackle used for fishing an anchor
	Fish-front, fishes-sides				See Made mast
	Fish-davit				The davit used for fishing an anchor
	Fish				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
	Finishing				Carved ornaments of the quarter-galley, below the second counter, and above the upper lights
	Fillings				Pieces of timber used to make the curve fair for the mouldings, between the edges of the fish-front and the sides of the mast
	Filler				See Made mast
	Figurehead				Carved figure on the front of the ship, over the cutwater
	Figure eight knot				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
	Figure eight knot				A stopper knot for the end of the rope
	Fife rail				A rail around the mast with hole for belaying pins
	Fiddlehead				See Head
	Fiddle-block				A long shell having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper
	Fid				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
	Fender				A cushion placed between boats, or between a boat and a pier, to prevent damage
	Fender				Pieces of wood or rope hung over the side to protect a vessel from chafing when alongside another vessel or dock
	Feather-edged				Planks, which have one side thicker than another
	Feather to feather an oar in rowing				To turn the blade horizontally with the top aft as it comes out of the water
	Fathom				A unit of length equal to 6 feet used in measuring water depth
	Fathom				Measurement of six feet
	Fathom				Six feet
	Fathom				Unit of water depth equivalent to 6 feet
	Fast				Said of an object that is secured to another
	Fast				A rope by which a vessel is secured to a wharf, there are bow or head, breast, quarter, and stern fasts
	Fashion-pieces				The aftermost timbers, terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern
	Fancy-line				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
	False-keel				Pieces of timber secured under the main keel of vessels
	False-fire				A tube when lit burnt with a blue flame, used for signalling
	Fall				The hauling part of the tackle to which power is applied
	Fall				That part of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting
	Fall aboard				One vessel falls foul of another
	Fake				One of the circles or rings made in coiling a rope
	Fairleader				A strip of board or plank, with holes in it, for running rigging to lead through, also a block or thimble used for the same purpose
	Fag				A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted
	Facing				Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet
	Face-pieces				Pieces of wood wrought on the fore part of the knee of the head
	Eyelet-hole				A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through
	Eye-bolt				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
	Eye splice				A permanent loop spliced in the end of a line
	Eye of the wind				The direction from which the wind is blowing
	Eye of the wind				The direction that the wind is blowing from
	Eye				The circular part of a shroud or stay, where it goes over a mast
	Even-keel				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
	Even keel				When a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel
	Euvrou				A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended, see Uvrou
	Escutcheon				The part of a vessels stern where her name is written
	Epirb emergency position indicating radio beacon				An emergency device that uses a radio signal to alert satellites or passing airplanes to a vessel`s position
	Elbow				Two crosses in a hawse
	Eiking				A piece of wood fitted to make good a deficiency in length
	Ebb tide				A receding tide, a period or state of decline
	Ease sheet				To let the sheet out slowly loosen a line while maintaining control
	Ease				To slacken or relieve tension on a line
	Earing				A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed
	Dyce				Keeping the attitude toward the wind as it is, and no higher, in other words, if the wind changes direction, change course to match, if on the starboard tack (wind coming from the starboard), and the wind backs (anti-clockwise shift), fall off the
	Dunnage				Loose wood or other matters, placed on the bottom of the hold, above the ballast, to stow cargo upon
	Duck				A kind of cloth, lighter and finer than canvass, used for small sails
	Dub				To reduce the end of a timber
	Drum-head				The top of the capstan
	Drop				The depth of a sail, from head to foot, amidships
	Driver				A spanker
	Drive				To scud before a gale, or to drift in a current
	Drifts				Those pieces in the sheer-draught where the rails are cut off
	Drift	Abatimiento			A vessels leeway
	Draw				A sail draws when it is filled by the wind
	Draught				The depth of water which a vessel requires to float her
	Dragging				Method of fishing in which a net is pulled behind the boat
	Drag				A machine with a bag net, used for dragging on the bottom for anything lost
	Draft				The depth of water a boat draws
	Draft				The depth of water required to float a vessel
	Drabler				A piece of canvass laced to the bonnet of a sail, to give it more drop
	Downhaul				A rope used to haul down jibs, staysails, and studdingsails
	Dowelling				A method of coaking, by letting pieces into the solid, or uniting two pieces together by tenoning
	Douse				To drop a sail quickly
	Double sheetbend				Join small to medium size rope
	Double bottom				The double bottom extends from the flat keel to the tank top, it is strongly constructed and is water tight so that in case of accident causing an inrush of water into the double bottom, the ship would still be able to keep afloat
	Dorade				A horn type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out
	Dolphin-striker				The martingale
	Dolphin				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
	Dog-watches				Half watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8 PM, see Watch
	Dog-vane				A small vane, made of feathers or buntin, to show the direction of the wind
	Dog				A short iron bar, with a fang or teeth at one end, and a ring at the other, used for a purchase, the fang being placed against a beam or knee, and the block of a tackle hooked to the ring
	Dock				A protected water area in which vessels are moored, the term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf
	Ditty bag				A small bag for carrying or stowing all personal articles
	Displacement hull speed				The theoretical speed that a boat can travel without planing, this speed is 1,34 times the length of a boat at its waterline
	Displacement				The weight of water displaced by a floating vessel
	Displacement				The weight of the water displaced by the vessel
	Displacement hull				A type of hull that plows through the water, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added
	Dinghy				A small boat, usually carried on hauled behind a bigger boat
	Derrick				A single spar supported by stays and guys, to which a purchase is attached, used to unload vessels, and for hoisting
	Departure				The easting or westing made by a vessel, the bearing of an object on the coast from which a vessel commences her dead reckoning
	Deep-sea-lead				(Pronounced dipsey), The lead used in sounding at great depths
	Deck-stopper				A stopper used for securing the cable forward of the windlass or capstan, while it is overhauled, see Stopper
	Deck				A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of a ship serving as a floor
	Deck				The planked floor of a vessel, resting upon her beams
	Deadeye				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
	Dead-wood				Blocks of timber, laid upon each end of the keel, where the vessel narrows
	Dead-water				The eddy under a vessel`s counter
	Dead-rising, or rising-line				Those parts of a vessel`s floor, throughout her whole length, where the floor-timber is terminated upon the lower futtock
	Dead-lights				Ports placed in the cabin windows in bad weather
	Dead-flat				One of the bends, amidships
	Dead reckoning				A plot of courses steered and distances traveled through the water
	Dead reckoning				A calculation of determining position by using course speed last known position
	Dead astern				Directly aft or behind
	Dead ahead				Directly ahead
	Day mark				A signboard attached to a daybeacon to convey navigational information presenting one of several standard shapes (square, triangle, rectangle) and colors (red, green, orange, yellow, or black), daymarks usually have reflective material indicating
	Day beacon				A fixed navigation aid structure used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks
	Davits				Small cranes, usually located astern that are used to raise and lower smaller boats from the deck to the water, also a spar with a roller or sheave at its end, used for fishing the anchor, called a fish-davit
	Dagger-knees				Knees placed obliquely, to avoid a port
	Dagger				A piece of timber crossing all the puppets of the bilge-ways to keep them together
	Cutter				Similar to a sloop except sails are arranged so that many combinations of areas may be obtained
	Cutter				A small boat, also a kind of sloop
	Cut-water				The foremost part of a vessel`s prow, which projects forward of the bows
	Current				The horizontal movement of water
	Cuntline				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
	Cuddy				A cabin in the fore part of a boat
	Cuckold`s neck				A knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope crossing each other, and seized together
	Crutch				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
	Crown of an anchor				The place where the arms are joined to the shank
	Crow-foot				A number of small lines rove through the uvrou to suspend an awning by
	Crow`s nest				Protected look-out position high on the foremast
	Cross-trees				Pieces of oak supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees, at the mast-heads, to sustain the tops on the lower mast, and to spread the topgallant rigging at the topmast-head
	Cross-spales				Pieces of timber placed across a vessel, and nailed to the frames, to keep the sides together until the knees are bolted
	Cross-piece				A piece of timber connecting two bitts
	Cross-pawls				Pieces of timber that keeps a vessel together while in her frames
	Cross-jack				(Pronounced croj-jack), The sail cross-jack yard, this is the lower crossed yard on the mizzen mast
	Cross-chocks				Pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency at the heels of the lower futtocks
	Cross-bars				Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor
	Cringle				A short piece of rope with each end spliced into the bolt-rope of a sail, confining an iron ring or thimble
	Creeper				An iron instrument, like a grapnell, with four claws, used for dragging the bottom of a harbor or river, to find anything lost
	Crank				The condition of a vessel when she is inclined to lean over a great deal and cannot bear much sail, this may be owing to her construction or to her stowage
	Cranes				Pieces of iron or timber at the vessel`s sides, used to stow boats or spars upon, A machine used at a wharf for hoisting
	Coxswain				(Pronounced cox`n), The person who steers a boat and has charge of her
	Courses				The common term for the sails that hang from a ship`s lower yards, the foresail is called the fore course and the mainsail the main course
	Counter-timbers				Short timbers put in to strengthen the counter
	Counter				That part of a vessel between the bottom of the stern and the wing-transom and buttock
	Conning, or cunning				Directing the helmsman in steering a vessel
	Concluding-line				A small line leading through the centre of the steps of a rope or Jacob`s ladder
	Compass-timbers				Such as are curved or arched
	Compass card				Part of a compass, the circular card graduated in degrees, it is attached to the compass needles and conforms with the magnet meridian-referenced direction system inscribed with direction, the vessel turns not the card
	Compass				Navigation instrument, either magnetic (showing magnetic north) or gyro (showing true north)
	Compass				The instrument which tells the course of a vessel
	Compass				An instrument for showing the directions of north, south, west, & east
	Companion-way				The staircase to the cabin
	Companion-ladder				The ladder leading from the poop to the main deck
	Companion				A wooden covering over the staircase to a cabin
	Come - come home				Said of an anchor when it is broken from the ground and drags
	Collar				An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay, to go over the mast-head
	Coil				To lay a line down in circular turns
	Coil				To lay a rope down in circular turns, a coil is a quantity of rope laid up in that manner
	Codline				An eighteen thread line
	Cockpit	Bañera	Kuip		An opening in the deck from which the boat is handled
	Cock-bill				To cock-bill a yard or anchor, see A-Cock-Bill
	Coat				Mast-Coat is a piece of canvass, tarred or painted, placed round a mast or bowsprit, where it enters the deck
	Coamings				Raised work round the hatches, to prevent water going down into the hold
	Coal tar				Tar made from bituminous coal
	Coaks				Fitted into the beams and knees of vessels to prevent their drawing
	Coaking				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
	Clubbing				Drifting down a current with an anchor out
	Club-haul				To bring a vessel`s head round on the other tack, by letting go the lee anchor and cutting or slipping the cable
	Clove-hook				An iron clasp, in two parts, moving upon the same pivot, and overlapping one another, used for bending chain sheets to the clews of sails
	Clove hitch				A knot for temporarily fastening a line to a spar or piling
	Clove hitch				A knot, two half hitches around a spar, post or rope
	Close-hauled				Applied to a vessel, which is sailing with her yards braced up to get as much possible to windward, the same as on a taut bowline, full and by, on the wind
	Clinch				A half-hitch stopped to its own part
	Clewline				A rope that hauls up the clew of a square sail,the clew-garnet is the clewline of a course
	Clew-garnet				A rope that hauls up the clew of a foresail or mainsail in a square-rigged vessel
	Clew				The lower corner of square sails, and the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail
	Cleat				A fitting, usually with two horn-shaped ends, to which lines are made fast, the classic cleat is almost anvil-shaped
	Cleat				A piece of wood with two horns used in different parts of a vessel to belay ropes to
	Clasp-hook				See Clove-hook
	Clamps				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
	Chock				A fitting through which anchor or mooring lines are led, usually U-shaped to reduce chafe
	Chips				Small pieces of timber offcuts left over from shipbuilding, traditionally available to shipwrights and carpenters was much abused during the 17th cenury when whole house and furniture were buit
	Chinse				To thrust oakum into seams with a small iron
	Chine				The intersection of the bottom and sides of a flat or v-bottomed boat
	Chimes				The ends of the staves of a cask, where they come out beyond the head of the cask
	Chess-trees				Pieces of oak, fitted to the sides of a vessel, abaft the fore chains, with a sheave in them, to board the main tack to
	Cheerly!				Quickly, with a will
	Cheeks				The projections on each side of a mast, upon which the trestle-trees rest, the sides of the shell of a block
	Check				A term sometime used for slacking off a little on a brace, and then belaying it
	Chart				A map for use by navigators
	Chart				A map of part of the sea, showing currents, depths, islands, coasts, etc
	Charley noble				Galley stovepipe
	Chapelling				Wearing a ship round, when taken aback, without bracing the head yards
	Chanty				Shanties are the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships of the Age of Sail, their rhythms coordinated the efforts of many sailors hauling on lines
	Channels				Broad pieces of plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, used for spreading the lower rigging, see Chains
	Channel				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
	Chains				Strong links or plates of iron, the lower ends of which are bolted through the ship`s side to the timbers, their upper ends are secured to the bottom of the dead-eyes in the channels, in addition, used familiarly for the Channels, which see, t
	Chain-plates				Plates of iron bolted to the side of a ship, to which the chains and dead-eyes of the lower rigging are connected, also used to support the standing rigging
	Chain-locker				Where the chain cable are kept
	Chain shot				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
	Chain bolt				The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel`s side
	Chain boat				A boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc
	Chafing-gear				The stuff put upon the rigging and spars to prevent their chafing
	Chafing gear				Tubing or cloth wrapping used to protect a line from chafing on a rough surface
	Chafe				To rub the surface of a rope or spar
	Ceiling				The inside planking of a vessel
	Cavil				See Kevel
	Caulk				To fill wooden vessel seams with oakum and cotton using caulking irons and hammer
	Catamaran				A twin hulled boat, with hulls side by-side
	Cat-head				Large timbers projecting from the vessel`s side, to which the anchor is raised and secured
	Cat-harpin				An iron leg used to confine the upper part of the rigging to the mast
	Cat-block				The block of this tackle
	Cat`s-paw				A kind of hitch made in a rope, a light current of air seen on the surface of the water during a calm
	Cat				The tackle used to hoist the anchor up to the cat-head
	Cast off				To let go
	Cast				To pay a vessel`s head off, in getting under way, on the tack she is to sail upon
	Cascabel				The other term for the knob on a cannon, and comes from Spanish, Catalan, etc Cascabellus = Little bell
	Carry-away				To break a spar or part a rope
	Carrick-bitts				The windless bitts
	Carrick-bend				A kind of knot
	Carlings				Short and small pieces of timber running between the beams
	Carline wood				Stringer support for hatches and cabins
	Cargo				From captured ship
	Careen				To heave a vessel down upon her side by purchases upon the masts, to lie over, when sailing on the wind
	Capstan-bars				Heavy pieces of wood by which the capstan is hove round
	Capstan				The drum-like part of the windlass, which is a machine used for winding in rope, cables or chain connected to an anchor cargo
	Capsize				To turn over
	Capsize				To overturn
	Cap				A thick, strong block of wood with two holes through it, one square and the other round, used to confine together the head of one mast and the lower art of the mast next above it
	Canvass				The cloth of which sails are made, No 1 is the coarsest and strongest
	Cant-timbers				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
	Cant-pieces				Pieces of timber fastened to the angles of fishes and side-trees to supply any part that may prove rotten
	Canister				Musket balls, put into thin tin or wooden containers designed to break apart on firing, and langrage as old chain links, scrap metal, horseshoe nails, stones, pottery pieces, etc put into similar containers designed to break apart on firing
	Can-hooks				Slings with flat hooks at each end, used for hoisting barrels or light casks, the hooks being placed round the chimes, and the purchase hooked to the centre of the slings, Small ones are usually wholly of iron
	Camfering				Taking off an angle or edge of a timber
	Camel				A machine used for lifting vessels over a shoal or bar
	Cambered				When the floor of a vessel is higher at the middle than towards the stem and stern
	Calk				See Caulk
	Caboose				A house on deck, where the cooking is done, Commonly called the Galley
	Cable-tier				See Tier
	Cable				The rope or chain made fast to the anchor, it is usually 120 fathoms in length
	Cabin sole				The bottom space of the enclosed space under the deck of a boat
	Cabin				A compartment for passengers or crew
	Cabin				The after part of a vessel, in which the officers live
	By the run				To let go by the run, is to let go altogether, instead of slacking off
	By the head				Said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water than her stern, if her stern is lower, she is by the stern
	By the board				Said of masts, when they fall over the side
	By the lee				See Lee, see Run
	Buttock				That part of the convexity of a vessel abaft, under the stern, contained between the counter above and the after part of the bilge below, and between the quarter on the side and the stern-post
	Butt				The end of a plank where it unites with the end of another
	Burton				A single Spanish burton has three single blocks, or two single blocks and a hook in the bight of one of the running parts, a double Spanish burton has three double blocks
	Burdened vessel				That vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rules, must give way to the privileged vessel
	Buoyancy				Ability to float or rise in a fluid
	Buoy				An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazardor a shoal and for mooring
	Buoy				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
	Buoy				A distinctively marked object that floats in the water as a navigational marker
	Buntlines				Ropes used for hauling up the body of a sail
	Buntine				(Pronounced buntin) Thin woolen stuff of which a ship`s colors are made
	Bunt				The middle of a sail
	Bunk				A sleeping berth
	Bung				A round wood plug inserted in hole to cover a nail screw or bolt
	Bumpkin				Pieces of timber projecting from the vessel, to board the fore tack to and from each quarter, for the main brace-blocks
	Bum-boats				Boats which lie alongside a vessel in port with provisions and fruit to sell
	Bulwarks				The wood work round a vessel, above her deck, consisting of boards fastened to stanchions and timber-heads
	Bull`s eye				A small piece of stout wood with a hole in the centre for a stay or rope to reeve through, without any sheave, and with a groove round it for the strap, which is usually of iron, in addition, a piece of thick glass inserted in the deck to let ligh
	Bull				A sailor`s term for a small keg, holding a gallon or two
	Bulkward - bulwark				Solid rail along ship side above deck to prevent men and gear from going overboard
	Bulkhead				A vertical partition separating compartments
	Bulkhead				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
	Bulk				The whole cargo when stowed
	Bulge				See Bilge
	Bucklers				Blocks of wood made to fit in the hawse-holes, or holes in the half-ports, when at sea, those in the hawse-holes are sometimes called hawse-blocks
	Broken-backed				The state of a vessel when she is so loosened as to droop at each end
	Broadside				The whole side of a vessel
	Broad reach				A point of sailing where the boat is moving away from the wind, but not directly downwind
	Broach-to				To fall off so much, when going free, as to bring the wind round on the other quarter and take the sails aback
	Broach				Sudden, unplanned, and uncontrolled turning of a vessel so that the hull is broadside to the seas or to the wind
	Broach				The boat swings and puts the beam against the waves
	Bright work				Varnished woodwork
	Brigantine				A two-Masted vessel fore mast being square rigged
	Brig				A two-Masted vessel with both masts square rigged, on the sternmost mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail, an hermaphrodite brig has a brig`s foremast and a schooner`s mainmast
	Bridle-port				The foremost port used for stowing the anchors
	Bridle				Spans of rope attached to the leeches of square sails, to which the bowlines are made fast
	Bridge				The location from which a vessel is steered and its speed controlled
	Bridge deck				A partition between the cockpit and the cabin
	Breeching				A strong rope used to secure the breech of a gun to the ship`s side
	Breech				The outside angle of a knee-timber, the after end of a gun
	Breast-rope				A rope passed round a man in the chains, while sounding
	Breast-hooks				Knees placed in the forward part of a vessel, across the stem, to unite the bows on each side
	Breast-fast				A rope used to confine a vessel sideways to a wharf, or to some other vessel
	Breast line				A docking line going at a right angle from the boat to the dock
	Breaming				Cleaning a ship`s bottom by burning
	Breaker				A small cask containing water
	Break of the poop				Forward end of the poop deck
	Break				The sudden rise or fall of the deck when not flush
	Brake				The handle of a ship`s pump
	Brails				Ropes by which the foot or lower corners of fore-and-aft sails are hauled up
	Brace				A rope by which a yard is turned about
	Box-hauling				Wearing a vessel by backing the head sails
	Box				To box the compass, is to repeat the thirty-two points of the compass in order
	Bowsprit				A spar extending forward from the bow
	Bowsprit				A long spar attached to the Jibboom in the bow, used to secure headsails
	Bowsies				Are essentially long thin deadeyes used to tension the rig
	Bowse				To pull upon a tackle
	Bowline-bridle				The span on the leech of the sail to which the bowline is toggled
	Bowline knot				A knot used to form a temporary loop in the end of a line
	Bowline				A knot use to form an eye or loop at the end of a rope
	Bowline				(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
	Bower				A working anchor, the cable of which is bent and reeved through the hawse-hole
	Bow-grace				A frame of old ropes or junk placed round the bows and sides of a vessel, to prevent the ice from injuring her
	Bow spring line				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
	Bow line				A docking line leading from the bow
	Bow				The forward part of a boat
	Bow				The forward part of the vessel
	Bow				The front section of a boat
	Bound - wind-bound				When a vessel is kept in port by a head wind
	Boot-topping				Scraping off the grass, or other matter, this may be on a vessel`s bottom, and daubing it over with tallow, or some mixture
	Boot top				A stripe near the waterline
	Boot stripe				A different color strip of paint at the waterline
	Boom-irons				Iron rings on the yards, through which the studding-sail booms traverse
	Boom vang				A system used to hold the boom down when sailing downwind
	Boom crutch				Support for the boom, holding it up out of the way when the boat is at anchor or moored, unlike a gallows frame, a crutch is stowed when sailing
	Boom				Poles used to support the sails
	Boom				A spar used to extend the foot of a fore-and-aft sail or studding-sail
	Boom				Long piece of wood which runs perpendicular to the mast, to which the foot (bottom edge) of the sail is attatched
	Bonnet				An additional piece of canvass attached to the foot of a jib, or a schooner`s foresail, by lacing, taken off in bad weather
	Bolts				Long cylindrical bars of iron or copper, used to secure or unite the different parts of a vessel
	Bolt-rope				The rope which goes round a sail, and to which the canvass is sewed
	Bolsters				Pieces of soft wood, covered with canvass, placed on the trestle-trees, for the eyes of the rigging to rest upon
	Bobstays				Used to confine the bowsprit down to the stem or cutwater
	Boatswain`s locker				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
	Boatswain				(Pronounced bo-s`n), A warrant officer in the navy, who has charge of the rigging, and calls the crew to duty
	Boat-hook				An iron hook with a long staff, held in the hand, by which a boat is kept fast to a wharf, or vessel
	Boat hook				A short shaft with a fitting at one end shaped to facilitate use in putting a line over a piling, recovering an object dropped overboard, or in pushing or fending off
	Boat				A fairly indefinite term - A waterborne vehicle smaller than a ship, a small craft carried aboard a ship
	Board				The stretch a vessel makes upon one tack, when she is beating
	Bluff				A bluff-bowed or bluff-headed vessel is one, which is full and square forward
	Bluewater sailing				Open ocean sailing, as opposed to sailing in protected waters like lakes, bays
	Block and tackle				Arrangement of pulleys and line which increases hoisting power for heavy work, such as pulling in the sail in a strong breeze
	Block		Blok		A wooden or metal case enclosing one or more pulleys and having a hook, eye, or strap by which it may be attached
	Block				A pulley used to gain mechanical advantage
	Blanketing				A tactical maneuver whereby a boat uses its sails to cover another competitor`s wind so causing him to slow down
	Blade				The flat part of an oar, which goes into the water
	Bitter, or bitter-end				That part of the cable, which is abaft the bitts
	Bitter end				The last part of a rope or chain the inboard end of the anchor rope
	Bitt				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
	Biscuit				Bread intended for naval or military expeditions is now simply flour well kneaded, with the least possible quantity of water, into flat cakes and slowly baked
	Binnacle				A box near the helm, containing the compass
	Billet-head				See Head
	Bill				The point at the extremity of the fluke of an anchor
	Bilged				When the bilge is broken in
	Bilge-ways				Pieces of timber bolted together and placed under the bilge, in launching
	Bilge water				Water which settles in the bilge
	Bilge pump				A mechanical, electrical, or manually operated pump used to remove water from the bilge
	Bilge				The interior of the hull below the floorboards
	Bilge				The lowest part of the interior hull below the waterline
	Bilge				The largest circumference of a cask
	Bight				The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is ormed a slack part or loop in a rope shallow bay or bend in a coast forming an open bay
	Bight				The double part of a rope when it is folded, in contradistinction from the ends, any part of a rope may be called the bight, except the ends, also, a bend in the shore, making a small bay or inlet
	Bibbs				Pieces of timber bolted to the hounds of a mast, to support the trestle-trees
	Between-decks				The space between any two decks of a ship
	Best bower				The larger of the two bowers
	Berth				The place where a vessel lies, the place in which a man sleeps
	Bentick shrouds				Formerly used, and extending from the futtock-staves to the opposite channels
	Beneaped				See Neaped
	Bends				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
	Bend				To make fast
	Below				Beneath the deck
	Below				Beneath or under the deck
	Belay pin				Iron or wood pin fitted into railing to secure lines to
	Belay				Change order, to make a line secure to a pin, cleat or bitt
	Bees				Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the foretopmast stays through
	Becket				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
	Becalm				To intercept the wind, a vessel or highland to windward is said to becalm another, so one sail becalms another
	Beaufort scale				A system for estimating wind strengths
	Beating				Going toward the direction of the wind, by alternate tacks
	Bearing				The direction of an object expressed either as a true bearing as shown on thechart, or as a bearing relative to the heading of the boat
	Bearing				The direction of an object expressed either as a true bearing as shown on the chart, or as a bearing relative to the heading of the boat
	Bear-a-hand				Make haste
	Bear				An object bears so and so, when it is in such a direction from the person looking
	Beams				Strong pieces of timber stretching across the vessel, to support the decks
	Beam trawling				Method of fishing which uses a beam to hold open a net at its mouth
	Beam reach				A point of sail where the boat is sailing at a right angle to the apparent wind
	Beam				The greatest width of the boat
	Beam				The widest part of the boat
	Beam				a boat`s widest point, usually near the middle of the boat
	Beacon	Baliza			A lighted or unlighted fixed aid to navigation attached directly to the earths surface Lights and daybeacons, both constitute beacons
	Beacon				A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels off, also as a signal-mark on land
	Bay	Bahía	Baai		Spacious opening in the sea coast, small draft and very open. Suitable as a shelter for boats
	Battens				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
	Batten down				Secure hatches and loose objects both within the hull and on deck
	Barratry				An unlawful or fraudulent act, or very gross and culpable negligence, by the master or mariners of a vessel in violation of their duty as such, directly prejudicial to the owner or cargo, and without his consent, Smuggling, trading with an enemy,
	Barnacle				A shellfish often found on a vessel`s bottom
	Barkentine				3 Masted with Square rigged on fore mast only
	Bark				3 Masted with Square rigged on fore and main mast
	Barge				A large double-banked boat used by the commander of a vessel, in the navy
	Bare-poles				The condition of a ship when she has no sail set
	Barber hauler				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
	Bar				A bank or shoal at the entrance of a harbor
	Bank				A boat is double banked, when men seated on the same thwart pull two oars, one opposite the other
	Bank				Underwater plateau that rises up from the ocean floor, creating shallow water where fish feed
	Ballast				Is either pigs of iron, stones, or gravel, which last is called single ballast and their use is to bring the ship down to her bearings in the water which her provisions and stores will not do, trim the ballast that is spread it about, and lay it e
	Bale				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
	Balance-reef				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
	Bailers				Openings in the bottom or transom to drain water when sailing, see Self Bailers
	Bail				Ironrod partially circling the boom to which sheet block is attached, see Bale, to remove water from the boat
	Bagpipe				To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging
	Baggywrinkle				Chafing gear made from old ropes
	Backwinded				when the wind hits the leeward side of the sails
	Backstay	Baquestay	Achterstag		Mast support running to aft deck or another mast, stays
	Backstaff information				The ship`s distance from that landmark can be calculated, a navigation instrument used to measure the apparent height of a landmark whose actual height is known, such as the top of a lighthouse
	Back				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
	Awning				A covering of canvass over a vessel`s deck, or over a boat, to keep off sun or rain
	Avast! Or `vast				The command to stop, or cease, in any operation
	Athwartships				At right angles to the centerline of the boat across the ship or boatfrom side to side - Rowboat seats are generally athwartships
	Athwart-ships				Across the line of the vessel`s keel
	Athwart-hawse				Across the direction of a vessel`s head, across her cable
	Athwart				Across
	Astern				In back of the boat, opposite of ahead
	Arming				A piece of tallow put in the cavity and over the bottom of a lead-line
	Arm				Yard-Arm, the extremity of a yard, also the lower part of an anchor, crossing the shank and terminating in the flukes
	Apron				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
	Apparent wind				Wind felt on a vessel underway
	Anemometer	Anemometro	Anemometer	Anemometer	Instrument to mesure the wind speed
	Anchorage				A place suitable for anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom
	Anchorage				A sheltered place or area where a boat can anchor
	Anchor watch				See Watch, A member or members of the crew that keep watch and check the drift of ship
	Anchor watch				A small watch of one or two men, kept while in port
	Anchor light				A white light visible in all direction display in the forward part of a vessel at anchor
	Anchor ball				A black ball visible in all direction display in the forward part of a vessel at anchor
	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
	An-end				When a mast is perpendicular to the deck
	An eye-splice				A certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope into a loop
	Amidships				In the middle of the ship, either to the length or breadth
	Amidship(s)				In or toward the part of a boat or ship midway between the bow and the stern toward the middle of the ship or boat
	Amain				Suddenly, at once
	Aloof				At a distance
	Aloft				Above or on top of the deck of the boat
	Aloft				Up above, up the mast or in the rigging
	All-aback				When all the sails are aback
	All in the wind				When all the sails are shaking
	All hands				The whole crew
	Aids to navigation (aton)				Artificial objects to supplement natural landmarks to indicate safe and unsafe waters
	Ahoy				seaman`s call to attract attention
	Ahead				In a forward direction
	Ahead				In the direction of the vessel`s head, wind ahead is from the direction toward which the vessel`s head points (opposite to A-stern)
	Aground				Touching or fast to the bottom of any body of water on or onto the shore
	Aground				Touching the bottom
	After leading				A line that lead from its point of attachment toward the stern
	Aft/after				At, near or towards the stern, to move aft is to move to the back of the boat
	Aft				Toward the stern of the boat
	Aft				Toward the rear, or transom, of a ship
	Afore				Forward, the opposite of abaft
	Afloat				Resting on the surface of the water
	Adrift	A la deriva	Op dreef		Broken from moorings or fasts, without Fasts
	Accommodation				See Ladder
	Abreast				Along side or at right to
	Above Deck				On the deck, not over it see Aloft
	Above board				Above the deck
	About				On the other tack, to pass through the eye of the wind
	Aboard	A bordo	Aan boord		On or within the boat
	Abeam				At right angle or off to the side of the keel of the boat at right angle to the middle of the ship
	Abeam				At right angle to the middle of the ships side
	Abandonment				A marine insurance term indicating that the cost of repairs to a vessel is more than the cost of the vessel and cargo
	Abandon ship	Abandonar			An order given to leave a ship when it is in danger
	Abaft the beam				Aft a line which extends out from amidships
	Abaft				Toward the rear (stern) of the boat
	Abaft				Towards the stern of a vessel
	Aback-(backwinded)				The sail filling on wrong side in the casee of square rigged ship may cause the ship to go astern, see All-Aback
	Ab				Ableseaman rating a man able to hand, reef and steer
	A-weigh				The same as A-trip
	A-weather				The situation of the helm when it is put in the direction from which the wind blows
	A-trip				The situation of the anchor when it is raised clear of the ground, the same as a-weigh
	A-taunt				See Taunt
	A-stern				In the direction of the stern, the opposite of ahead
	A-peek				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
	A-lee				The situation of the helm when it is put in the opposite direction from that in, which the wind blows
	A-hull				The situation of a vessel when she lies with all her sails furled and her helm lashed a-lee
	A-cock-bill				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
	A weatherly ship				is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway
	A temporary sail				Set at the fore-mast of a schooner or sloop when going before the wind, see Sail
	A fore-and				Aft schooner has only fore-and-aft sails, a topsail schooner carries a square fore topsail, and frequently, also, topgallant sail and royal, there are some schooners with three masts, they also have no tops, a main-topsail schooner is one that
	A bend				A knot by which one rope is made fast to another

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