The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Fish

Sea Terms

To lift the flukes of the anchor on the rail so that the shank is horizontal; to strengthen or reunite a spar by bolting pieces of plank over the break, then heaving a strong lashing of rope around the spar over the fish pieces.

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