They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the standing backstays, for supporting the upper spars from to windward. When to leeward, they are borne abaft the top-rim. (See backstays.)
Long ropes extending from all mast-heads above a lower-mast to both sides of the ship or chain-wales...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The front of a furnace. II. Breast ·noun The face of a coal working. III. Breast ·noun A <<T...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The rigging proper. (See backstays.) ...
, are generally the breast-backstays, which set up with a runner purchase in the channels on the wea...
·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...
·adj High as the breast. ...
·add. ·- Abscess of the mammary gland. ...
·noun The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; — commonly applied...
He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
To run abeam of a cape or object. To cut through a sea, the surface of which is poetically termed br...
Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...
An old term for bunt-gaskets. ...
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...
A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions, which terminates the quarter-deck and poop ...
To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...