bearing backstays aft

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• backstays

  Long ropes extending from all mast-heads above a lower-mast to both sides of the ship or chain-wales...

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• Bearing

  ·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. II. Bearing ·noun Purport; meaning; intended ...

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• bearing

  An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discov...

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• Aft

  ·adv & ·adj Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft. ...

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• aft

  a Saxon word contradistinctive of fore, and an abbreviation of abaft the hinder part of the ship, or...

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• breast-backstays

  They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...

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• standing backstays

  The rigging proper. (See backstays.) ...

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• travelling-backstays

  , are generally the breast-backstays, which set up with a runner purchase in the channels on the wea...

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• Bearing cloth

  ·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. ...

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• Bearing rein

  ·- A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; — called in th...

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Roller bearing

  ·add. ·- A bearing containing friction rollers. ...

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• Rush-bearing

  ·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...

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• gold-bearing

  verbal adj. auriferous. 1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13: «A new line of gold-bearing quartz...

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• bearing binnacle

  A small binnacle with a single compass, usually placed before the other. In line-of-battle ships it ...

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• aft-castle

  An elevation on the after-part of our ships of war, opposed to forecastle, for the purpose of fighti...

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• chock-aft

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• flat-aft

  The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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• veers aft

  See hauls aft ...

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• hauls aft

  , or veers aft. Said of the wind when it draws astern. ...

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• round-aft

  The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards. ...

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• taken aft

  Complained of on the quarter-deck. ...

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• line of bearing

  A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...

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• both sheets aft

  The situation of a square-rigged ship that sails before the wind, or with the wind right astern. It ...

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• fore-and-aft

  From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...

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• shifting backstays, also preventer

  Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...

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• fore-and-aft sails

  Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...

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• haul aft a sheet

  To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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• brace up and haul aft!

  The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...

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• gather aft a sheet, to

  to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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