Knife Lanyard to Lark's Head

A cord worn around the neck and attached to a ring in the handle of a knife, which prevents it from falling from aloft and insures it against loss.

The timbers next to and on each side of the stem.

(See Nettles.)

An order to stop work. At noon in port the crew are knocked off for dinner.

Said of a vessel when, by the force of the wind acting upor her sails and spars, she is careened to such an extent that she does not recover herself.

To make a bunch in a rope. (See engravings.) A division mark placed on a log line which answers to a mile of distance on the ocean. In other words, the divisions on the log line are made to be of the same proportion of a sea mile (6,080 feet) as the 30" glass is to an hour, viz., the one hundred and twentieth part. Hence the 120th of a sea mile is 50 feet and 8 inches, which will be the distance apart for the knots on the line used with a 30" glass. (See Log.)

A Dutch coasting vessel.

A boat of the Malay Peninsula.

A whaling vessel of Archangel.

L's of Navigation. Lead, lookout, lights, latitude and longitude. (See The Three L's.)

A vessel is said to labor when she strains heavily in a violent sea from rolling and pitching.

The rope used to lash the head of a fore-and-aft sail to a gaff; to secure a bonnet to a sail, etc. (See Latchings.)

Cargo carried loose in a vessel, such as wheat, corn, salt, etc.

A Russian lighter.

A Chinese name for an armed vessel.

Sinkable articles thrown overboard and buoyed so as to be recovered.

Out of commission; not in use.

A Malay proa or swift sailing boat.

On the coast in the tropics a breeze begins to blow from the shore (land breeze) after sunset, and lasts until sunrise, when a breeze commences to blow from the sea (sea breeze), and lasts until near sunset, being replaced again at that time by the land breeze.

To see the land when coming from sea. A good land fall signifies that the land sighted is the exact point navigated for.

Land Ho! The cry made when the land is first discovered.

Surrounded by land.

A sailor's name for a man who passes his life on land.

The second line of planking on a boat from the gunwale.

A designation for forward men on shipboard below the grade of ordinary seamen. A man who has had little or no sea experience.

A Malay vessel.

A Chinese rowboat.

A rope rove through dead eyes in setting up rigging; a rope made fast to anything for securing it, as the lanyards of the davit guys. (See Knife Lanyard and Bucket Lanyard.)

An expression used in boat-building, signifying that the planks of the boat overlap.

The left-hand side of a vessel in looking towards the bow (now obsolete). The word port takes the place of larboard.

A name once given to the men of the larboard watch.

A vessel goes large when she has the wind free. (See Flowing Sheets.)

A knot made by doubling the bight of a rope, passing it around a spar, or through a ring or hook about a foot, then bending it down towards you and spreading it out, and slipping a toggle through the four parts--across the two outer and under the two inner. To finish with take a half hitch around the standing part with the loose end hanging down so that it will not slip when a strain is put on it. (See engraving.)