settle

Now termed the stern-sheets [derived from the Anglo-Saxon settl, a seat].

♦ To settle. To lower; also to sink, as "the deck has settled;" "we settled the land." (See laying.) "Settle the main top-sail halliards," i.e. ease them off a little, so as to lower the yard, as on shaking out a reef.

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