The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins.
Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
♦ Belaying pins. Short cylindrical pieces of wood or iron fixed into the fife-rail and other parts o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A stain; a tache. II. Tack ·vt To fasten or attach. III. Tack ·vt Confidence; reliance. IV....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A rope to confine the weather lower corners of the courses and staysails when the wind crosses the s...
Working to windward, or along shore, by long and short boards, or legs, alternately. ...
Small wooden or iron cylinders, fixed in racks in different parts of the ship, for belaying running ...
Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of...
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...
(Isaiah 3:22) The original word means some kind of female ornament, probably a reticule or richly or...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. ...
Weather tack of the fore-sail hauled to the fore-boomkin when on a wind. ...
A northern name for the cuttle-fish. ...
That which is most favourable to the course when working to windward. ...
See soft tommy ...
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to. ...
Any way or every way; a colloquialism. ...
A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...
To have a gonorrhea. ...
In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...