A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. (See drags.)
·noun Anything driven at random. II. Drift ·noun A driving; a violent movement. III. Drift ·noun I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A wing; a van. II. Sail ·noun To set sail; to begin a voyage. III. Sail ·noun The extended s...
The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise: Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gor...
·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...
Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts. ...
The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...
Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...
Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...
Synonymous with lee-way. ...
A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...
A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom. ♦ Top-gallant sprit...
·- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase...
·- A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to t...
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...
The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.) ...
The old term for a smoke-sail. ...
A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the ...
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...
A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...
The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...
A small hook used for holding the seams of a sail while in the act of sewing. ...
A large apartment in dockyards where the sails are cut out and made. ...
Men specially appointed to loose the sails when getting under weigh, or loosing them to dry. ...
A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering ...
The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...
A drift-sail. ...
A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...
A sail formerly attached to a yard which hung under the bowsprit, and of importance in naval actions...
The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop. ...
An incorrect name for a studding-sail. ...
A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale. ...
A vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown. ...
The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...
A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair ...
A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...
To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...
To increase the quantity of sail already set, either by letting out reefs, or by setting additional ...
Arranging it for bending to the yard. ...
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch. ...
As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry. ...
The running a middle seam between the two seams which unite every cloth of a sail to the next adjoin...
A yard slung across the bowsprit, lashed to the knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib...
A cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, &c., that encroach on their b...
See main-sail. ...
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...
The spar to which the head of the studding-sail is extended. ...
or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...
Buyers of stores stolen out of the royal yards and docks. ...
The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...
The extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech...
A small part lowered in a gale. ...
A long triangular sail, bent by its foremost leech to a lateen yard, which hoists obliquely to the m...
To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...
A kind of triangular sail of peculiar form, used mostly in boats. It is very handy and safe, particu...
The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...
May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...
To hand it quickly. ...
In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attache...