shifting backstays, also preventer

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• Also

  ·adv & ·conj Even as; as; so. II. Also ·adv & ·conj In like manner; likewise. III. Also ·adv & ·co...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Preventer

  ·noun An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. II. Preventer ·noun One who goes before; one who fore...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• preventer

  Applied to ropes, &c., when used as additional securities to aid other ropes in supporting spars, &c...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• backstays

  Long ropes extending from all mast-heads above a lower-mast to both sides of the ship or chain-wales...

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• Shifting

  ·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything. II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shift>>. III. Shifti...

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• shifting

  Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• preventer-plates

  Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• preventer-stoppers

  Short pieces of rope, knotted at each end, for securing the clues of sails or rigging during action,...

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• breast-backstays

  They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...

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• standing backstays

  The rigging proper. (See backstays.) ...

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• travelling-backstays

  , are generally the breast-backstays, which set up with a runner purchase in the channels on the wea...

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• shifting ballast

  A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ballast-shifting

  When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• shifting ballast

  Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...

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• shifting-boards

  One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...

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• shifting-centre

  See meta-centre. ...

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• shifting sand

  A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...

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• shifting winds

  Variable breezes, mostly light. ...

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• bearing backstays aft

  To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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• shifting a tackle

  The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...

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• shifting the messenger

  Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose