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An encircling iron ring which slides along a deck-horse or up and down a rope. (See Horse.)

(See Horse.)

The several courses made by a vessel. To traverse a yard is to brace it in a fore-and-aft direction.

An old-fashioned instrument for recording the course or several courses made by the vessel during a watch. It was a round board, with the points, half-points and quarter-points of the compass painted upon its rim. In each one of the points eight gimlet holes were bored, and into one of these, corresponding to the vessel's course, a peg was placed every half hour.

(See Part III.)

A small fishing boat on the coast of Brittany.

A fishing boat.

A name by which molasses is known on shipboard.

A block of three sheaves. Same as a three-fold block.

Wooden pins used for bolting a plank to a timber.

The direction anything takes, as the trend of the shore, etc.

The two pieces of fore-and-aft horizontal timber resting on the hounds of the mast, and which support the cross-trees, and across which the fid of the mast above rests. (See Cross-trees.)

A three-sided course laid out in yacht racing.

A wire or hemp rope secured at the head of a topmast of a fore-and-aft vessel, thence leading to the lowermast head of the mast next abaft, acting as a support to the topmast.

To haul anything up, as the heel of a studding-sail boom.

A line by which anything is triced up.

The term given to the period of time which a man remains at the helm. The trick varies from two to four hours.

The way a vessel sits upon the water in relation to her water-line. A vessel is trimmed by the head when her water-line is nearer to, or more submerged forward than it is aft, and trimmed by the stern when the reverse of the above exists. A vessel is in ballast-trim when she has no cargo and only ballast on board. To trim the sails is to handle the braces of a square-sail and the sheet of a boom-sail so as to obtain the best results from the wind.

To trip an anchor is to lift it from the bottom. To trip a yard is to swing it from the horizontal to the perpendicular. A trip is also a passage made on a vessel from one place to another.

A line used for tripping a yard. Also the rope by which a drag or sea-anchor is capsized.

A transport vessel.

The hollow between two waves.

A salmon fishing boat of the river Tyne.

The piece of wood of circular shape placed at the extremity of the highest mast, and having small holes or sheaves in it for the signal halliards to reeve through.