A canvas coat affixed to the rudder, encasing the opening in the counter, to prevent the sea from rushing in through the tiller-hole.
·noun A <<Petticoat>>. II. Coat ·vt To cover with a coat or outer garment. III. Coat ·noun A coat ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The tunic worn like the shirt next the skin (Lev. 16:4; Cant. 5:3; 2 Sam. 15:32; Ex. 28:4; 29:5). Th...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A piece of tarred canvas nailed round above the partners, or that part where the mast or bowsprit en...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Dress] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A riddle or sieve. II. Rudder ·noun Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governo...
The appendage attached by pintles and braces to the stern-post of a vessel, by which its course thro...
·- A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the...
·add. ·- A short, heavy, double-breasted plaid coat, the design of which is large and striking. ...
·noun A coat made of match-cloth. ...
·- The first coat in plastering; — called also scratchwork. ·see Pricking-up. ...
·adj Having or consisting of three coats; — applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, fl...
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Tuxedo>>. ...
a great coat. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
a great coat. York. ...
The peculiar nails with which the mast coats are fastened. ...
A conical canvas fitted over the wedges round the mast, to prevent water oozing down from the decks....
A light coat or defence of mail, concealed under the ordinary dress. ...
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...
Ancient ships had two great broad-bladed oars for rudders. These, when not in use, were lifted out o...
A contrivance, of which there are several kinds, for supplying a vessel with the means of steering w...
The iron or composition hinges on which a rudder turns. ...
The same as rudder-trunk (which see). ...
Strong copper chains connected with the aft side of the rudder by a span clamp and shackles. They ar...
The same as gudgeon (which see) and chalder. ...
See chock. ...
Those secured to a ship are termed braces; gudgeon is more applicable to boats or small vessels. ...
The upper end of the rudder-stock. Also, the flat surface of the trunk, which in cabins and ward-roo...
A kind of iron crutch bolted to the back of the rudder, for attaching the rudder chains to in case o...
Synonymous with wheel-house. ...
The pintles, gudgeons, and braces of the rudder are frequently so called, though they were usually o...
(See rudder-chains.) Hempen pendants fastened to the rudder-chains, for steering in cases of acciden...
The hooks attached to the rudder, which enter the braces, and hang it. ...
The aftermost part of the rudder. ...
The main piece of a rudder. ...
Attached to the rudder-pendants. ...
A casing of wood fitted or boxed firmly into a cavity in the vessel's counter, called the helm port,...
The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "glittering" (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural f...
"a corselet of scales," a cuirass formed of pieces of metal overlapping each other, like fish-scales...
See King Edward Street. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The chiton shell. ...
So as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces, constantly in boats, and frequen...
See rudder-horn. ...
(See wood-locks of the rudder.) In machinery, applies to wedges, forelocks, &c. ...
A piece of timber attached to its lower part to render it nearly level with the false keel. ...
See pintles. ...
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...
Pieces of timber sheathed with copper, in coppered ships, placed in the throating or scores of the s...