A large rope stretched from the main to the fore mast head of whalers, to which the speck-falls are attached for the operation of flensing.
·vt To steady or guide with a guy. II. Guy ·noun A person of queer looks or dress. III. Guy ·vt To...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A dark lanthorn: an allusion to Guy Faux, the principal actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow the guy: c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A rope used to steady a weighty body from swinging against the ship's side while it is hoisting or l...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A large sea nettle or medusa. II. Blubber ·noun A <<Bubble>>. III. Blubber ·vt To swell or d...
The mouth.--I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by ga...
The layer of fat in whales between the skin and the flesh, which is flinched or peeled off, and boil...
A tackle applied half-way up sheers, or long spars that require support in the middle. Frequently ap...
A rope to the swinging-boom of the lower studding-sail. ...
A small tackle or rope to prevent the spanker-boom from swaying about in fine weather. ...
·noun A <<Jellyfish>>. ...
Said of a large coarse woman, who exposes her bosom. ...
Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale. ...
The implements with which blubber is "made off," or cut for stowing away. ...