hammock-battens or racks

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• battens

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• Hammock

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• hammock

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• hammock

  A swinging sea-bed, the undisputed invention of Alcibiades; but the modern name is derived from the ...

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• dunnage battens

  An extra floor in a merchantman to preserve the cargo from wet in the event of leakage. They are als...

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• loovered battens

  The battens that inclose the upper part of the well. (See loover-ways.) ...

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• tricing battens

  Those used for the hammocks, or tricing up the bags between the beams on the lower-deck. ...

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• hammock-berthing

  Forecastle-men forward, and thence passing aft, foretop-men, maintop-men, mizentop-men, waisters, af...

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• hammock-cloths

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• hammock-nettings

  Take their distinguishing names according to their location in the ship, as forecastle, waist, quart...

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• hammock-racks

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• battens for hammocks

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• hammock gant-lines

  Lines extended from the jib-boom end around the ship, triced up to the lower yard-arms, for drying s...

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• battens of the hatches

  Long narrow laths, or straightened hoops of casks, serving by the help of nailing to confine the edg...

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• clue of a hammock

  The combination of small lines by which it is suspended, being formed of knittles, grommets, and lan...

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• foot-clue of a hammock

  See hammock. ...

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• head-clue of a hammock

  Where the head rests. (See hammock.) ...

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