The situation of a square-rigged ship that sails before the wind, or with the wind right astern. It is said also of a half-drunken sailor rolling along with his hands in his pockets and elbows square.
·conj As well; not only; equally. II. Both (·adj or ·pron) The one and the other; the two; the pair...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adv & ·adj Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft. ...
a Saxon word contradistinctive of fore, and an abbreviation of abaft the hinder part of the ship, or...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A <<Factotum>>. ...
Talked to at both ears by different persons at the same time, confounded, confused. IRISH PHRASE. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Specially jibs and staysail sheets, before the fore-mast. ...
Belong to shifting sails, such as studding-sails, &c. ...
That part of a boat between the stern and the aftmost thwart, furnished with seats for passengers. ...
Those fast to the weather-clues of the sails. "Haul over the weather-sheets forward," applies to t...
An elevation on the after-part of our ships of war, opposed to forecastle, for the purpose of fighti...
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...
See hauls aft ...
, or veers aft. Said of the wind when it draws astern. ...
The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards. ...
Complained of on the quarter-deck. ...
To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
Finished. The game is blocked at both ends; the game is ended. ...
The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing. ...
Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...
To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...
To let them go suddenly. ...
The inner part of the bows, opposite to stern-sheets, fitted with gratings on which the bowman stand...
Unsteady from drink. ...
The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...
to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...