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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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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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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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Sprit
·noun A shoot; a sprout. II. Sprit ·vi To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to <<Eject>>;...

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sprit
[Anglo-Saxon, spreotas]. A small boom which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to t...

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Sheet
·vt the book itself. II. Sheet ·vt To expand, as a sheet. III. Sheet ·vt A <<Sail>>. IV. Sheet ·v...

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sheet
A rope or chain fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail, to extend and retain the clue d...

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Knot
·noun A protuberant joint in a plant. II. Knot ·noun ·see <<Node>>. III. Knot ·noun An ornamental ...

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knot
A crew, gang, or fraternity. He has tied a knot with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth...

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knot
A large knob formed on the extremity of a rope, generally by untwisting its ends, and interweaving t...

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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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bolt-sprit
See bowsprit. ...

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cable-sheet, sheet-cable
The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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Sheet anchor
·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge. II. Sheet...

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Sheet cable
·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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Sheet chain
·- A chain sheet cable. ...

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deck-sheet
That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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flowing-sheet
In sailing free or large, is the position of the sheets or lower clues of the principal sails when t...

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sheet-anchor
One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...

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sheet-bend
A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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sheet-cable
A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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sheet-copper
Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c. ...

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sheet-fish
The Silurus glanis, a large fish found in many European rivers and lakes. ...

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sheet home!
The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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Clytie knot
·add. ·- In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of t...

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Cuckold's knot
·- A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed an...

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wharl-knot
a hard knot. Lane. ...

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bowline-knot
That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an invo...

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cuckold's-knot
or neck. A knot by which a rope is secured to a spar the two parts of the rope crossing each oth...

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diamond-knot
An ornamental knot worked with the strands of a rope, sometimes used for bucket-strops, on the foot-...

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granny's knot
This is a term of derision when a reef-knot is crossed the wrong way, so as to be insecure. It is th...

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overhand knot
Is made by passing the end of a rope over its standing part, and through the bight. ...

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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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shroud-knot
See knot. ...

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slip-knot
, or slippery-hitch. One which will not bear any strain, but will either become untied, or will tr...

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snarl-knot
A northern expression for a knot that cannot be drawn loose. ...

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square-knot
The same as reef-knot. ...

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stopper-knot
Single and double wall, without crowning, and the ends stopped together. ...

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walker's knot
See matthew walker. ...

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wale-knot
See wall-knot ...

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wall-knot
, or wale-knot. A particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the s...

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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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sheer-sail
A drift-sail. ...

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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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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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fore-sheet horse
An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...

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fore-sheet traveller
An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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give her sheet
The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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tack or sheet
A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...

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topsail-sheet bitts
Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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top-knot pigeon
n. an Australian bird, Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw. 1891. Francis Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 3...

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buoy-rope knot
Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...

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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...

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french shroud-knot
The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standin...

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running bowline-knot
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...

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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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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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haul aft a sheet
To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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sheet in the wind
Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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Fox and Knot Court
West out of Cow Lane and north through Fox and Knot Inn to Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (H...

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Fox and Knot Inn
See Fox and Knot Court. ...

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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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gather aft a sheet, to
to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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standing part of a sheet
That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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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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