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Shore
·- imp. of Shear. II. Shore ·vt To set on shore. III. Shore ·- of <<Shear>>. IV. Shore ·noun A <<...

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shore
to prop up any thing. North. ...

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shore
A prop fixed under a ship's sides or bottom, to support her when laid aground or on the stocks. Shor...

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Reef
·noun A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding...

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reef
I. n. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or...

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reef
A certain portion of a sail comprehended between the head of a sail and any of the reef-bands. The i...

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bold-shore
A steep coast where the water, deepening rapidly, admits the near approach of shipping without the d...

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cap-shore
A supporting spar between the cap and the trestle-tree. ...

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ebber-shore
See ebber ...

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lee-shore
A ship is said to be on a lee-shore, when she is near it, with the wind blowing right on to it. ...

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shore-anchor
That which lies between the shore and the ship when moored. ...

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shore-boats
Small boats or wherries plying for hire at sea-ports. ...

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shore-cleats
Heavy cleats bolted on to the sides of vessels to support the shore-head, and sustain the ship uprig...

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shore-fast
A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore. ...

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table-shore
A low level shore. ...

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weather-shore
The shore which lies to windward of a ship. ...

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Reef-band
·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...

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bag-reef
A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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balance-reef
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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reef-band
A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...

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reef-cringles
See cringle. ...

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reef-earings
See earings. ...

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reef-knot
Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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reef-line
Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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reef-pendant
A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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reef-points
Small flat pieces of plaited cordage or soft rope, tapering from the middle towards each end, whose ...

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reef-tackles
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...

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spanish reef
The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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on-shore winds
Those which blow from the offing, and render bays uncomfortable and insecure. ...

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under-shore, to
To support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it, as a ship is shored up in dock. ...

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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used. ...

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rut of the shore
The sea breaking along the coast. ...

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stand in shore, to
To sail directly for the land. ...

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hands reef top-sails!
The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to ...

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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...

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