Masts fitted for getting up and down with facility abaft the mast; generally used for kites, as royals, skysails, and the like.
·adj Slippery; elusory. II. Sliding ·adj That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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The Sailor's Word-Book
, or sliding-planks. Those timbers fitted under the bottom of a ship, to descend with her upon the...
A contrivance to prevent vessels from being driven to leeward by a side-wind; it is composed of plan...
·- The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. ·see <<Chain>>, ·noun, 4, and Gunter's scale. ...
·- A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numb...
·- A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, ·etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of t...
·- A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham Colle...
Called also the line of numbers, and the line of lines, is placed upon scales and sectors, and named...
A kind of stereographic projection on the plane of the equinoctial; the eye is supposed in one of th...
Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...