standing backstays

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• 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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• Standing

  ·noun Place to stand in; station; stand. II. Standing ·adj Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing wate...

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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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• travelling-backstays

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

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• Water-standing

  ·adj Tear-filled. ...

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• all-standing

  Without preparation, suddenly. This, like many other common expressions, seems to be borrowed from ...

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• standing bevelling

  The alteration made obtuse or outside a square, in hewing timber, as opposed to acute, or under-beve...

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• standing bowsprit

  One that is fixed permanently in its place, not the running-in bowsprit of a cutter. ...

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• standing-jib

  The jib, as distinguished from the other jibs. ...

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• standing-lifts

  Ropes from the mast-heads to the ends of the upper yards, to keep them square and steady when the sa...

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• standing orders

  Special regulations remaining constant for some particular branch of service. ...

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• standing pull

  One with the face towards the tackle, being about 2 feet each pull. ...

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• standing rigging

  That part which is made fast, and not hauled upon; being the shrouds, backstays, and stays for the s...

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• standing up

  A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas. ...

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• standing warrants

  Those officers who remain with a ship in ordinary, or on the stocks, as the gunner, carpenter, boats...

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• standing water

  Water where there is no current or tide. ...

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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 backstays, also preventer

  Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...

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• standing part of a hook

  That part which is attached to a block, chain, or anything which is to heave the hook up, with a wei...

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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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• standing part of a rope

  The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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• standing part of a tackle or rope

  The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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