- lay or lie on your oars!
- lay out
- lay the land, to
- lay-to
- lay up a ship, to
- lazaretto
- lazarus
- lazy guy
- lazy painter
- lead, sounding
- lead
- leader
- leading-blocks
- leading-marks
- leading-part
- leading-strings
- leading-wind
- lead-line
- lead-nails
- leadsman
- leaf
- league
- leaguer
- leak
- leakage
- leakies
- leaky
- lean
- lean-bow
- leap
- leaper
- leat
- leathag
- leather
- leather-jacket
- leave
- leave-breaking
- leave-ticket
- leax
- ledge
- ledges
- ledo
- lee
- lee-anchor
- lee-beam
- lee-boards
- leeches
- leech-lines
- leech-rope
- lee-fang
- lee-fange
- lee-gauge
- lee-gunwale under
- lee-hatch, take care of the!
- lee-hitch
- lee-lurches
- lee-shore
- lee-side
- lee-side of the quarter-deck
- lee-tide
- leeward
- leewardly
- lee-way
- lee-wheel
- leg
- leg along
- leg-bail
- leggers
- legs
- legs of the martinets
- legs and wings
- leister
- leit
- leith
- lembus
- leming-star
- lemon-rob
- lend a hand
- lend a fist or a hand
- lend us your pound here!
- lengthening
- lengthening-piece
- lens
- lent
- lentriæ
- lenunculi
- leo
- leppo
- lerrick
- lesser circle
- let draw!
- let drive, to
- let fall!
- let fly, to
- afore haul!
- let go and haul!
- let go under foot
- let in, to
- shake out, a reef, to
- let out, a reef, to