Page 116 of Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia · 28 entries
Lengths of rope made fast to and hanging under a yard, or along the bowsprit, end of the spanker-boom, and jib-boom for men to stand on while bending, unbending, reefing, and furling sail. These ropes were formerly known as horses. The bights are supported or held up by stirrups hanging from the spars.
When a green hand first goes aloft at sea he is followed up the rigging and lashed to the shrouds unless he pays a forfeit, and this is known as paying his footing.
To drag a ship over a shoal by ramming it under a big spread of canvas or a full head of steam.
The forward part of a vessel; anything in the direction of the head of the ship.
In the line of the keel; opposed to athwart ship; a schooner is called a fore-and-aft vessel.
Sails which set upon gaffs and booms and stays.
A cabin in the forepart of the vessel, or a cabin just forward of the main cabin.
(See Chains.)
The forward part of the main deck.
The forward extremity of the keel, upon which the stem of the vessel rests.
The roping grafted on the handle of the harpoon and having an eye in its after-end for the harpoon line to be bent into.
On sailing vessels generally the first hatch abaft the foremast, and on steamships the hatch forward of the foremast.
The forward part of the hold.
Also known as a breast hook; a timber that goes across the stem, and which unites the parts of the bow and strengthens the forepart of the vessel.
The luff of a fore-and-aft sail is often termed the fore leach.
A piece of iron slipped thwartships through a hole in the end of a bolt to prevent the latter from drawing.
That part of the vessel below decks which is close to the stem.
The overhang of the vessel bows forward of the forefoot.
A vessel is said to fore reach when, after being thrown into the wind, either in tacking or when coming to anchor, she shoots ahead.
The shrouds and their ratlines of the fore lower mast.
The piece of bunting tucked in the strands of a log line (generally ten fathoms from the log chip) to mark the limit of drift line, and from which the knots on the line are marked.
The sail that on a square-rigger is bent to the fore yard; but the sail that on a fore-and-after is spread by the fore gaff and boom.
(See Horse.)
(See Traveler.)
(See Shoulder.)
The shrouds of the fore lower mast.
The hemp or wire rope leading from the foremast head to the stem, where it sets up. The foremast is stayed (supported) forward by it, and on this stay the fore staysail is set. (See Stays.)
The first head sail forward of the foremast, setting on the fore stay. (See Staysail.)