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(See Caique.)

A Nile passenger boat.

A Lapland boat.

A fishing boat of the Arctic seas.

A Shetland Islands fishing boat.

Old rope used as chafing stuff around cables.

A small all-iron anchor used for kedging a vessel.

The rope used with a kedge anchor.

Moving a vessel by carrying out in a boat a kedge anchor with a hawser bent to it, and, after…

The first timber laid down upon the keel blocks in building a vessel, and the back-bone of the…

The main and lower timber of a ship, extending longitudinally from the stem to the stern-post.…

Blocks which the vessel's keel rests on in building, or when she is on a dry dock.

A punishment at one time practiced upon heavy offenders in the English and other foreign…

A timber bolted on top of the keel inside the vessel, and running parallel with it. (See Bilge…

(See Keelson Riders.)

Timbers bolted on top of the main keelson, and parallel to it, in order to strengthen the…

To put the helm up; to alter the course of the ship so as to avoid another ship or some danger.

An order given to the helmsman to keep the sails full of wind.

An order to the helmsman to keep the vessel's head more away from the wind.

To steer along a coast so as not to lose sight of the shore.

(See Hold the Luff.)

(See Hold the Wind.)

An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind so that the sails will tremble…

Pig iron ballast laid alongside of the keelson.

This eminent astronomer, born in Wurtemberg in the year 1571, determined the true laws of the…

A small pleasure vessel; a bomb vessel.

A vessel is said to be kettle-bottomed when she has a flat floor.

(See Cavil.)

(See Cavil Heads.)

A taper piece of rectangular cross-section, two opposite sides of which are flat and parallel;…

An iron pin slipping crosswise through a hole in the end of a bolt to prevent it from drawing…

A bolt fitted with a key.

A small wooden tub in which the beef and pork ration is carried into the fore-castle.

Boats used in carrying passengers on the rivers of India.

A stone anchor used in small boats.

That spoke of the steering wheel (usually distinguished by a mark) which is directly over the…

A valve in the bottom of a vessel through which water flows to the pumps, etc. The valve is a…

A twist in a rope or cable.

The place below decks where the cooking is done. When the cooking is done in a house on deck…

(See Drag.)

(See Flying Kites.)

(See Clinker.)

The large flat timber fayed edgeways upon the fore-part of the stem. It is formed by an…

The staple employed in fastening the false to the main keel.

Pieces of timber having two arms, and used for connecting the beams of a vessel with the…

The crooked pieces of oak timber by which the ends of the beams are secured to the sides of…

A cord worn around the neck and attached to a ring in the handle of a knife, which prevents it…

The timbers next to and on each side of the stem.

The timbers next the stem on each side, and continued high enough to form a support for the…

(See Nettles.)

An order to stop work. At noon in port the crew are knocked off for dinner.

Said of a vessel when, by the force of the wind acting upor her sails and spars, she is…

To make a bunch in a rope. (See engravings.) A division mark placed on a log line which…

A Dutch coasting vessel.

A boat of the Malay Peninsula.

A whaling vessel of Archangel. L's of Navigation. Lead, lookout, lights, latitude and…