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1. a-starboard, adv. View full entry 1627
...On or toward the starboard or right side of the ship when looking forward. to put the helm a-starboard: to bring the rudder to the port side, making the vessel...
2. astern, adv. and prep. View full entry 1627
...Of position: In or at the stern....
3. awning, n. View full entry 1624
...A roof-like covering of canvas or similar material, used as a shelter from sun, rain, etc.; esp. above the deck of a vessel....
4. † ˈback-ˌstaff, n. View full entry 1627
...A peculiar kind of quadrant formerly used in taking altitudes at sea, so called because the observer turned his back to the sun....
5. backstay, n. View full entry 1626
...Naut. (often pl.) Long ropes, slanting a little abaft, extending from the upper mast-heads to both sides or to the ‘channels’ of the ship, where they are fastened to...
6. berth, v.2 View full entry 1627
...To board, cover or make up with boards. (Chiefly in Shipbuilding.) See berthing...
7. billage, n. View full entry 1627
...A variant of bilge...
8. ˈbillage, v. View full entry 1627
...To bilge...
9. ˈbitter, n.3 View full entry 1627
...(See quots.)...
10. bluff, adj. View full entry 1627
...Presenting a broad flattened front; esp....
11. bolt-rope, n. View full entry 1626
...‘A rope sewed all round the edge of the sail, to prevent the canvas from tearing.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk....
12. boom, v.2 View full entry 1627
...Naut. (trans.)...
13. bow, n.3 View full entry 1626
...‘The fore-end of a ship or boat; being the rounding part of a vessel forward, beginning on both sides where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the rabbet...
14. brace, n.3 View full entry 1626
...A rope attached to the yard of a vessel for the purpose of ‘trimming’ the sail....
15. breaming, n. View full entry 1627
...The clearing of a ship's bottom by burning. Hence breaming-fuel, breaming-hook....
16. buntline, n. View full entry 1627
...A rope fastened to the foot-rope of a sail and passing in front of the canvas, so as to prevent it from ‘bellying’ when being furled....
17. ˈburr-pump | ˈbur-pump, n. View full entry 1627
...A form of bilge-pump with the piston so constructed as not to require a valve: see quot....
18. butt, n.7 View full entry 1627
...Naut. More fully butt-end, butt-head. The end of a plank or plate in a vessel's side which joins or butts on to the end of the next;...
19. caburn, n. View full entry 1626
...(pl.) ‘Spun rope-yarn lines, for worming a cable, seizing, winding tacks, and the like’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.)....
20. camber, v. View full entry 1627
...intr. To be or become slightly arched or curved so that the centre is higher than the ends....
