The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them.
·noun The after end of a ship's keel. II. Heel ·noun A cyma reversa; — so called by workmen. III....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The after end of a ship's keel, and the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected. Also, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...
Those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller, in order to steer by in bad weather or in action,...
Used to prevent the yards from swaying to and fro under heavy rolling motion. ...
Attached to the rudder-pendants. ...
Tackles attached to the fore and main yards of a ship, whereby, with the assistance of the stay-tack...
·noun Indian cress. ...
·noun A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. ...
A peg in the heel of a shoe, taken out when it is finished. A person leaving any liquor in his glass...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
the heel-piece of a shoe. North. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A piece of iron-work applicable to the lower part of a rudder, in case of casualty to the lower pint...
The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...
The rope which secures the inner part of a studding-sail boom to the yard; also, that which secures ...
That which hauls out the bowsprit in cutters, and the jib and studding-sail booms, or anything else ...
The situation of a ship when careened by shift of ballast, &c.; or the causing her to incline a litt...
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
The lower end, which either fits into the step attached to the keel, or in top-masts is sustained by...
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...