Clouds to Collar

Visible vapor suspended in the atmosphere. Clouds are classed under the following heads: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cirro-cumulus, cirro-stratus, cumulo-stratus, and cumulo-cirro-stratus, or nimbus. (See Part III.)

Two jamming under and overlaying turns of a line around a spar or a rope, and much used in bending a heaving line to a hawser. (See engraving.)

(See Clip Hooks.)

A piece of seamanship performed while endeavoring to claw off a lee shore, and when it is feared that the vessel will miss stays. The lee anchor is dropped (the hawser leading from the lee quarter) after coming head to wind, and when the vessel's head has paid off on the opposite tack the cable is cut.

A topsail set flying from the deck with the luff laced to a pole called a sprit, and the foot laced to a pole called a club.

To drift down with the current, having an anchor on the bottom.

(See Part II.)

Apartments built in the sides of steam vessels opposite the boilers for stowage of coal.

A tar made from bituminous coal, used sometimes to smear over a surface to prevent leaking, and for painting the fronts of boilers, etc.

The act of filling up the ship's bunkers with coals.

Strictly speaking, coamings are the fore-and-aft framings in the hatchways and scuttles, and the thwartship pieces are head-ledges, but the name coamings is commonly applied to the entire raised framework about the openings in the deck in order to prevent water from running below, as well as for strengthening the deck about the hatches. Sometimes spelt Coming.

A vessel engaged in carrying cargo to coastwise ports.

A body of men, regularly officered, whose duty it is to prevent the smuggling of dutiable goods into a country.

Sailing along the coast.

Along the ocean shore.

A mast-coat is a piece of painted canvas fitted around a mast where it passes through the upper deck to prevent the passage of water.

A flat-bottom boat used in the fisheries.

(See A-cock-bill.)

A small rowing boat.

The depression in the deck abaft the after cabin. In cock-pit vessels the steering wheel is generally found in the afterpart of the pit.

A line made of eighteen threads.

A mechanical device met with in hydraulic engineering for exposing a portion of the bottom of a harbor. A dam or enclosure is built of spiles driven in the mud, then the water is pumped out.

When a rope is coiled down it is wound around and around, one turn on top of another, the mass being named a coil.

Ropes made from the fibrous husks of the cocoa-nut. Coir rope will float upon the surface of the water. (See Bass Rope.)

A hook used on light sails in the same way as clip hooks.

The eyes in those ends of the standing rigging which go over the mastheads are sometimes called collars. Also a strap or grommet when used to seize a heart or dead-eye.