When they are topped, so as to resemble St. Andrew's cross; it is done as a token of mourning, or for convenience when vessels lie alongside of each other, as in the docks.
A ship drawn directly over the anchor is apeek: when the fore-stay and cable form a line, it is shor...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See dockyards. ...
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
When the cable and fore-stay form a line. (See apeek.) ...
The order to attend to the lifts and braces, for going before the wind. ♦ To square a yard. In wor...
The space comprehended between the slings, or middle and half-way out on the yard-arms. ...
Large magazines where provisions and similar stores are deposited, conveniently contiguous to the ro...