boom-boats

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• Boom

  ·vi To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. II. Boom ·noun A pole with a conspicuous top, se...

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• boom

  A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particula...

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• barra-boats

  Vessels of the Western Isles of Scotland, carrying ten or twelve men. They are extremely sharp fore ...

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• boat's crew

  The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...

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• boat's-gripes

  Lashings for the secure stowage of boats. (See gripes.) ...

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• bounty-boats

  Those which fished under the encouragement of a bounty from government. ...

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• money boats

  See death ...

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• ferry-boats

  Vessels or wherries duly licensed for conveying passengers across a river or creek. ...

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• flory-boats

  A local term for boats employed in carrying passengers to and fro from steamers which cannot get alo...

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• in-boats!

  The order to hoist the boats in-board. ...

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• massoolah boats

  See masulah boats ...

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• masulah or massoolah boats

  Madras boats, of which the planks are sewed together with coir yarn, crossing the stitches over a wa...

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• out-boats

  The order to hoist out the boats. ...

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• paddy-boats

  A peculiar Ceylon boat, for the conveyance of rice and other necessaries. ...

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• river-boats

  Wherries, and the like, which ply in harbours and rivers for the conveyance of passengers. ...

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• shore-boats

  Small boats or wherries plying for hire at sea-ports. ...

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• smug-boats

  Contraband traders on the coast of China; opium boats. ...

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• troop-boats

  Are built with great flatness of floor, with extreme breadth, carried well forward and aft, and poss...

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• up boats!

  The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits. ...

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• Gib boom

  ·- ·see Jib boom. ...

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• Torpedo boom

  ·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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• boom along

  To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...

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• bentinck-boom

  That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly...

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• boom-cover

  The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

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• boom-irons

  Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...

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• boom-jigger

  A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...

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• boom-mainsail

  See main-sail. ...

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• driver-boom

  The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...

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• jib-boom

  A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...

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• main-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• swinging-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in ...

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• benches of boats

  The seats in the after-part whereon the passengers sit; properly stern-sheets, the others are athwar...

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• paddle-box boats

  Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box. ...

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• risings of boats

  A narrow strake of board fastened withinside to support the thwarts. ...

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• boom-brace pendant

  A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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• flying jib-boom

  A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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• guest-warp boom

  A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...

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• square-sail boom

  A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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• studding-sail boom

  A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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• top your boom

  See boom. ...

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• top a boom, to

  To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...

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