sheer-sail

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• Sheer

  ·adv Clean; quite; at once. II. Sheer ·noun A turn or change in a course. III. Sheer ·vi Bright; c...

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• sheer

  Applied in the United States to fabrics of cotton or silk; as, sheer muslin; meaning very thin, clea...

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• sheer

  The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-af...

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• Sail

  ·noun A wing; a van. II. Sail ·noun To set sail; to begin a voyage. III. Sail ·noun The extended s...

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• sail

  The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise: Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gor...

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• Plank-sheer

  ·noun The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame. ...

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• plank-sheer

  Pieces of plank covering the timber-heads round the ship; also, the gunwale or covering-board. The s...

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• sheer-batten

  A batten stretched horizontally along the shrouds, and seized firmly above each of their dead-eyes, ...

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• sheer-draught

  In ship-building, a section supposed to be cut by a plane passing through the middle line of the kee...

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• sheer-hulk

  An old ship fitted with sheers, &c., and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vesse...

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• sheer-lashing

  Middle the rope, and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the oth...

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• sheer-mast

  The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...

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• sheer-mould

  Synonymous with ram-line (which see). ...

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• sheer-plan

  The draught of the side of a proposed ship, showing the length, depth, rake, water-lines, &c. ...

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• sheer-rail

  The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...

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• sheer-wales

  Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-por...

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• sprit-sail top-sail

  A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom. ♦ Top-gallant sprit...

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• Studding sail

  ·- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase...

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• Water sail

  ·- A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to t...

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• Main-sail

  (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...

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• top sail

  He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...

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• drag-sail

  Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...

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• drift-sail

  A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...

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• fore-sail

  The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.) ...

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• ghrime-sail

  The old term for a smoke-sail. ...

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• lug-sail

  A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the ...

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• main-sail

  This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...

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• sail burton

  A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...

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• sail ho!

  The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...

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• sail-hook

  A small hook used for holding the seams of a sail while in the act of sewing. ...

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• sail-loft

  A large apartment in dockyards where the sails are cut out and made. ...

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• sail-loosers

  Men specially appointed to loose the sails when getting under weigh, or loosing them to dry. ...

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• sail-maker

  A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering ...

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• sail-netting

  The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...

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• smoke-sail

  A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...

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• sprit-sail

  A sail formerly attached to a yard which hung under the bowsprit, and of importance in naval actions...

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• square-sail

  The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop. ...

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• steering-sail

  An incorrect name for a studding-sail. ...

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• storm-sail

  A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale. ...

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• strange sail

  A vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown. ...

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• under sail

  The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...

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• water-sail

  A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair ...

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• wind-sail

  A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...

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• break-sheer, to

  When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...

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• sheer, to break

  To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...

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• sheer off, to

  To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object. ...

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• crowd sail, to

  To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....

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• main-sail haul!

  The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...

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• make sail, to

  To increase the quantity of sail already set, either by letting out reefs, or by setting additional ...

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• middling a sail

  Arranging it for bending to the yard. ...

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• out-sail, to

  To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch. ...

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• press of sail

  As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry. ...

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• pricking a sail

  The running a middle seam between the two seams which unite every cloth of a sail to the next adjoin...

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• sprit-sail yard

  A yard slung across the bowsprit, lashed to the knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib...

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• sprit-sail yarding

  A cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, &c., that encroach on their b...

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• square main-sail

  See main-sail. ...

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• square-sail boom

  A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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• studding-sail boom

  A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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• studding-sail yard

  The spar to which the head of the studding-sail is extended. ...

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• top-sail haul!

  or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...

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• sheer up alongside, to

  To approach a ship or other object in an oblique direction. ...

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• red sail-yard dockers

  Buyers of stores stolen out of the royal yards and docks. ...

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• bunt of a sail

  The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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• depth of a sail

  The extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech...

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• hullock of a sail

  A small part lowered in a gale. ...

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• lateen sail and yard

  A long triangular sail, bent by its foremost leech to a lateen yard, which hoists obliquely to the m...

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• point a sail, to

  To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...

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• shoulder-of-mutton sail

  A kind of triangular sail of peculiar form, used mostly in boats. It is very handy and safe, particu...

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• skin of a sail

  The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...

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• sprit-sail sheet knot

  May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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• sheer to the anchor, to

  To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...

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• goose-wings of a sail

  The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...

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• roll up a sail, to

  To hand it quickly. ...

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• earing-cringle, at the head of a sail

  In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attache...

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