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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...

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Helm
·noun ·see <<Haulm>>, straw. II. Helm ·noun A <<Helve>>. III. Helm ·noun A <<Helmet>>. IV. Helm ·...

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helm
1) a hovel. N. 2) stubble gathered after the corn is housed ; also pease straw. S. ...

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helm
Properly is the tiller, but sometimes used to express the rudder, and the means used for turning it,...

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Port
·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. II. Port...

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port
An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent...

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helm-wind
A singular meteorological phenomenon which occurs in the north of England. Besides special places in...

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slack helm
If the ship is too much by the stern, she will carry her helm too much a-lee. ...

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small-helm
One of the principal results of sound seamanship is the proper trim of the vessel and the sail carri...

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taut helm
, or taut weather-helm. A ship with a side wind is said to carry a taut weather-helm, when the wat...

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weather-helm
A ship is said to carry a weather-helm when she is inclined to gripe, or come too near the wind, and...

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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. ...

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Port-royalist
·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...

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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...

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Two-port
·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...

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bridle-port
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...

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cinque-port
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances. ...

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closed port
One interdicted. ...

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convenient port
A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...

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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery. ...

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light-port
A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...

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port arms!
The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...

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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...

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port-charges
, or harbour-dues. Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port. ...

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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...

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port-flange
In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...

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port-glaive
A sword-bearer. ...

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port-last
, or portoise. Synonymous with gunwale. ...

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port-men
A name in old times for the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports; the burgesses of Ipswich are also so ca...

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port-mote
A court held in haven towns or ports. ...

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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...

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port-pendants
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...

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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets. ...

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port-reeve
A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times. ...

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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended. ...

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port-holes
See ports ...

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port-sale
A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour. ...

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port-sashes
Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins. ...

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port-shackles
The rings to the ports. ...

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port-sills
In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...

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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...

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raft-port
A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...

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sally-port
An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...

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sea-port
A haven near the sea, not situated up a river. ...

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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb. ...

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answers her helm
When a ship obeys the rudder or steers. ...

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ease the helm!
An order often given in a vessel close-hauled, to put the helm down a few spokes in a head sea, with...

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right the helm!
The order to put it amidships, that is, in a line with the keel. ...

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shift the helm!
The order for an alteration of its position, by moving it towards the opposite side of the ship; tha...

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starboard the helm!
So place the helm that the rudder is brought on the port side of the stern-post. (See hard-a-starboa...

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taut weather-helm
See taut helm ...

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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native. ...

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Port-Jackson Fig
n. See fig-tree. ...

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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder. 1882. Rev. J....

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Port-Jackson Thrush
n. the best known birdamong the Australian Shrike-thrushes (q.v.), Colluricincla harmonica, Lath.; ...

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Port-Macquarie Pine
See pine. ...

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port egmont fowls
See egmont ...

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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...

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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...

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Helm on ye Hoope
Tenement of Thomas de Lillyngston so called in parish of St. Peter de Cornhull, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 3...

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down with the helm!
An order to put the helm a-lee. ...

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feel the helm, to
To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of...

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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...

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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...

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captain of the port
The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...

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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly. ...

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put into port, to
To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather. ...

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riding a port-last
With lower yards on the gunwales. ...

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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...

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Port of London Authority's Warehouses
At the northern boundary of Portsoken Ward and extending into Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directo...

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any port in a storm
signifies contentment with whatever may betide. ...

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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill. ...

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