Page 56 of Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia · 23 entries
A document obtained by the master from the custom house, or from the health officer of the port, certifying to the state of health of the port at the time the vessel leaves, and which must be submitted to the proper authorities when another port is entered.
A receipt given by the master, mate, or clerk of a vessel for cargo received alongside or on board.
(See Head.)
A stand of wood or brass for the compass to rest in.
The glass-front cover to the binnacle stand, and into which the binnacle lamps are fitted.
The small lamp which fits into the binnacle hood and lights up the compass-card.
Those marks denoting the safety depth to which a ship may be loaded.
The upper ends of the bitts.
To confine the cable to the bitts by one turn under the cross-piece and another turn round the bitt head. When in this position the cable may either be veered away or kept fast.
To bitter a rope or cable is to take a turn with it around the bitts. (See Bitt the Cable.)
The last part of a rope or cable; when the end of the cable by which the vessel is riding is secured to the bitts, the cable is said to be paid out to the bitter-end.
Forecastle bitts are perpendicular timbers stepped in the keel and extending above the deck; used for securing towing-hawsers, etc. Quarter bitts are those found on the quarters of vessels, used for fastening anything to--the sheets of fore-and-aft sails are belayed to them. (See Windlass Bitts, Bowsprit Bitts.)
A list of the names of men who have committed some offense against the order and discipline of their ship, and who have been listed for punishment.
A ship built in India of tea.
A simple hitchmade over and around the hook of a tackle block, and which answers the same purpose as a cats-paw. (See engraving.)
The flat part of an oar that is thrust in the water in rowing. The arms of a steamer's screw-propeller are called blades.
When one vessel is in such a position to windward as to take the wind out of another vessel's sails, the latter is said to be blanketed.
Pieces of wood, or a hollow shape of iron called the shell, between or inside of which one or more sheaves (wheels) revolve on a pin which runs through the block from side to side. The aperture between the sheave and the top of the block is called the swallow. The sides of the block are called cheeks. On the outside of the cheeks a groove is cut, into which is fitted the strop--the grommet which tightly encircles the block. For definitions of various kinds of blocks look opposite to proper headings. (See engravings.)
(See Chock-a-Block.)
To betray a confidence; to disclose a secret.
Expressive of a heavy gale.
A designation for a Nova Scotia seaman.
A flag having a blue ground and a white centre, and which, when hoisted at the fore, signifies that the vessel is ready to sail.