The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Capsize

Sea Terms

To overturn. To capsize a coil of rope is to turn it over.

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2026 Editor's Note: Capsize is unchanged and universal — the word every dinghy sailor learns the wet way, and etymologists still argue where it came from. See capsizing. (Ed: BR 2026-07-09)

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