(See step of the capstan.)
The men march round to the tune of a fiddle or fife, and the phrase of excitement is, "Step out, lads, make your feet tell."
·vi Walk; passage. II. Step ·vt To set, as the foot. III. Step ·adj To walk slowly, gravely, or re...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, ·etc., to indicate th...
A large clamp of timber fixed on the kelson, and fitted to receive the tenoned heel of a mast. The s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drum...
, &c. A mechanical arrangement for lifting great weights. There is a variety of capsterns, but the...
A solid block of wood fixed between two of the ship's beams to receive the iron spindle and heel of ...
·- A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the ...
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressu...
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...
·add. ·noun A kind of round dance in march or polka time; also, a piece of music for this dance. ...
A movement in marching, in which the men, while advancing, gradually take ground to the right or lef...
The common march of 110 paces in a minute. ...
See quick-march. ...
An obsolete sea-punishment, in which the offender was sentenced to carry a capstan-bar during a watc...
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...
See room. ...
A rope passed horizontally through notches in the outer ends of the bars, and drawn very tight: the ...
See crab. ...
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
A contrivance for weighing heavy anchors, invented by Sir S. Morland, who died in 1695. ...
One placed between the fore and main masts, serving to stretch a rope, heave upon the jeers, and tak...
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...
At 39 New Street, Gravel Lane, Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory). Earliest mention: O...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
To move along simultaneously and cheerfully with a tackle-fall, &c. ...
Is the order to slacken the rope which is wound round the barrel while heaving, to prevent it from r...
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
A broad cylindrical piece of elm, resembling a millstone, and fixed immediately above the barrel and...
The cylinder between the whelps and the paul rim, constituting the main-piece. ...
To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave. ...
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...
To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...
To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul. ...
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described. ...