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Shorten Oars

- To draw the handle of the oar in-board, in order to avoid an obstacle in the river, or to pass through a narrow place such as a lock.

Shoulder

A big timber joined to the keelson to which the rigger is bolted. Of the same form as "knees." but stronger.

Skiff

In some places means a racing boat with no keel, propelled by one man who sculls [Photograph by Sport and General. holes in the stretcher (q.v.), between which and the stretcher itself the oarsman's feet are placed.

Stretcher

A board placed slopingly at a right angle across the boat in front of the oarsman, upon which he braces his feet.

Stroke

(1) The number of dips of the oar in the water within a given time. (2) The oarsman who sits nearest the stern of the boat and sets the work to the men behind him.

The side upon which his oar projects is called "stroke side" all the way up the boat.

Swing

The motion of the oarsmen's bodies backward and forward over their seats, especially as regard its extent and regularity. Taking a Boat's Water. To steer one's course in front of another boat, in order to give them extra wash.

Saithe

The Scotch name for coalfish.

Snade.-[See "FLOAT" and LASKE.] The Cornish name for a mackerel bait.

Snood

A short length of gut or line for attaching hooks.

Strike

The American term for the bite, or run, of a fish.

Whiffing. The same as railing, only from a rowing-boat and usually with a rod instead of a hand-line. [SEA-FISHING Zokka Hook. A hook, much used in Turkey, soldered into a kidney-shaped lead, which is kept polished with chamois leather and quicksilver.

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Time allowance by the Light Scale, under 5 metres per second, wind velocity, when the International Cutter Classes are amalgamated. 5 metres Class Seconds (cutters only). per Mile.

Class (cutters only).

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Sea-Fishing

iv. 127

Shooting

iv. 163, 164