Page 240 of Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia · 21 entries
The sail that was at one time suspended under the bowsprit from the spritsail yard. Also a boat's sail that is extended by a sprit. A sprit gaff topsail is one that has its luff secured to a sprit that extends above the truck, thus lengthening the hoist of the sail.
A knot made by walling and crowing the six strands of the rope together, thus forming an eye. (See engraving.)
An old time sail set on the flying-jib-boom in the same manner that the spritsail topsail was set on the jib boom.
A yard formerly used instead of whiskers, which was lashed across the bowsprit and used to spread the jib-boom-guys and flying jibboom-guys. There was also a sail bent to it which was called a sprit-sail, and which was set under the bowsprit.
To thrust a two-pointed stick in a shark's mouth so that he cannot close it, and turning him adrift thus.
A topsail set flying from the deck, with the luff laced to a pole, called a sprit; but this sail does not project beyond the gaff end like a club topsail.
Damaged in a variety of ways, such as warped, started, bent out of shape, etc. (See Spring.)
Two or three rope yarns twisted together into a cord.
A line connecting the tiller and tell-tale, and by which the latter is made to point parallel with the tiller for the benefit of the wheelsman.
A small telescope. An optical instrument by which distant objects are made more distinctly visible owing to the magnifying lens with which they are provided.
A sudden and violent gust of wind.
Very long yards are said to be square. A sail is called square on the head when it is long on the head. To square a yard is to brace it so that it will be at right angles to the keel.
A yard is square by the braces when the latter are hauled on so that the yard is exactly at right angles to the keel.
A yard is square by the lifts when the latter are hauled on so as to make the yard perfectly horizontal.
(See Bluff-Bowed.)
(See Flat Knot.)
A winding of twine placed on the lifts and braces and which, when brought to a certain point, indicate that the yard is horizontal and at right angles to the keel.
A vessel carrying yards on all her masts.
A temporary sail which is set on a yard hung just below the fore cross-trees of a schooner, or sloop, when the wind is abaft the beam. (See Sails.)
A vessel whose stern is almost perpendicular; no overhang. Square the Ratlines. To adjust the ratlines so that they will be horizontal and parallel with each other.
A piece of flat board about fifteen inches long, one inch thick, and four inches wide, having a narrow length of projecting hard rubber fitted in a groove in the under edge; through a hole in the center of the flat of the board a handle is shipped, and the instrument is used for scraping the water from the decks by pushing the rubber edge along the surface of the planks.