Broach to Bulwarks

When, as sometimes happens, the crew break into the ship's stores, they are said to broach them. Brach is a mild term for thieving.

To fly up in the wind.

A western river name for a flat-boat.

The side of a vessel from the cutwater to the end of the overhang; a simultaneous discharge from all the guns on either side of a vessel.

A large expanse of water connecting with and close to the sea.

When a vessel droops at both ends, owing to weakness, or from having been pounded on the shore, she is said to be broken-backed. Also when a vessel is in such a condition so that the line of her sheer is undulating, she is said to be hogged.

The breaking of waves as on a shoal; the vertical leaping and tumbling action of water occasioned by a meeting of tides or currents.

When a vessel is luffed into the wind.

A vessel is said to be bruising water when she pitches heavily into a head-sea.

A name applied to a bluff-bowed vessel, which created much disturbance under the bows when forcing its way through the water.

A freebooter; a pirate.

A designation for a swaggering, bullying ship officer.

An elegantly appointed galley of the Doge of Venice, and in which he received the senate, ambassadors, and other dignitaries. In the great ceremony on Ascension Day the Doge always threw a ring into the sea from the poop of this vessel, to espouse the waters and to proclaim dominion over the Gulf of Venice.

The rope-handle of a bucket.

A block fitted into the hawse-hole; a tompion for the half ports when there is no gun.

A blind buckler is a solid piece of wood to be used when there is no chain in the hawse-pipe.

A riding buckler has a space in it to accommodate the chain.

A trading boat of the Gulf of Persia.

(See Bilge.)

(See Laden in Bulk.)

Partitions dividing various parts of the vessel.

A small keg. (See Bull the Buoy.)

A vessel is said to bull the buoy when she thumps against it.

Strong, broad slings of canvas used for hoisting live cattle in and out of a vessel.

To abuse; to treat with contempt.

An egg-shaped piece of wood having a hole in it for a rope to reeve through. A bull's eye has no sheave, but it is strapped the same as a block. (See Deck Bull's Eye.)

A framework of ratline stuff seized in diamond shape, and used instead of bulwarks.

The rail on top of the bulwarks, and bolted through to the top of the bulwark stanchions.

The fence built around the vessel over the covering board (plank shears). Bulwarks are sometimes of wood, and again of iron. They are secured to the bulwark stanchions, which in turn are bolted on to the timbers.