See dockyards.
The order to attend to the lifts and braces, for going before the wind. ♦ To square a yard. In wor...
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When they are topped, so as to resemble St. Andrew's cross; it is done as a token of mourning, or fo...
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...