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A disease to which timber is subject, causing rapid decay.

To smooth or round a timber with an adze.

A term often applied to the cotton material of which a vessel's sails are made, but in reality duck is a finer weaving than cotton canvas, and is made up in garments for use in hot climates.

A sailor's name for a favorite tobacco pipe.

A sea-pudding made from a paste of flour and water and boiled.

Plum Duff is the above with the addition of raisins.

Railroad Duff refers to a duff in which the raisins are so few and far between that sailors say they find one only at each station.

A boat hewn out of the trunk of a tree.

A broad, flat-bottom trading boat used on the Arabian coast.

Loose wood and other material placed on the flooring for the cargo to rest on; also pieces of wood, mats, etc., jammed between barrels and other cargo to prevent motion.

A Holland-built merchant vessel having a flat floor and rounded or pudding-shaped ribs, and carrying the mizzen-mast stepped way aft.

A rope which secures the cringle of a sail in bending and reefing. (See Reef Earing.)

An order to the wheelsman when the ship is close hauled signifying that the wheel is to be put up a little to let the vessel go off.