| ballast | Any heavy material, such as gravel, sand, metal, water, etc., placed in the hold of a… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| boat hook | A long pole with a hook and a spike at one end, by means of which a boat can be pulled… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| bulkhead | One of the upright partitions serving to form the cabins in a ship or to divide the… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| davit | One of a pair of cranes on the side or stern of a ship, fitted with sheaves and pulleys for suspending or lowering a boat. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| dock | An artificial basin excavated, built round with masonry, and fitted with flood-gates… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| dunnage | Light material, as brushwood, mats, and the like, stowed among and beneath the cargo of… | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| gaffle | A steel lever for bending the cross-bow. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| garde-tramell | Some kind of fishing apparatus. Also attrib. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| garnet | (See quot. 1706.) | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| grapper | A grappling-hook. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| guess-warp | ‘A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to make fast… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| gun-stock | The wooden stock or support to which the barrel of a gun is attached; †a rest or support… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| hail-shot | Small shot which scatters like hail when fired: used in distinction from a ball or bullet. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| handbasket | A basket to be carried in the hand. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| hawse | That part of the bows of a ship in which the hawse-holes are cut for the cables to… | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| hedge-bill | A bill for lopping and pruning hedges. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| hedging-bill | A bill with a long handle used in cutting and trimming hedges. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| hound | Naut. A projection or cheek, of which one or more are fayed to the sides of the masthead… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| jean | = Geane n., Genoa; attrib. = Genoese adj. n. Obs. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| jeer | Tackle for hoisting and lowering the lower yards. (Usually in pl.) | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| jolywat | A ship's boat of small size; ? = jolly-boat n. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| junk | Naut. An old or inferior cable or rope; usually old junk. Obs. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| kedger | A small anchor or grapnel; = kedge n. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| keel | A tub or vat for holding liquor. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| lading | | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| leak | A hole or fissure in a vessel containing or immersed in a fluid, by which the latter… | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| Levant | spec. The eastern part of the Mediterranean, with its islands and the countries adjoining. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| mainmast | The principal mast in a ship. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| mainstay | Naut. The stay which extends from the maintop to the foot of the foremast. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| maintopsail | The sail above the mainsail. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| masthead | Naut. The head or highest part of a mast; esp. the head of the lower mast, as a… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| mop | An implement consisting of a stick or pole to which is attached a thick bundle of… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| new-making | The action of making again or anew; an instance of this. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| paint | trans. To make fast (an anchor) on a ship with a painter. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| perusing | The action of using up; an instance of this. Obs. rare. | 1488 | Go To Quotation |
| preparing | The action of prepare v.; preparation; an instance of this. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| primer | = priming wire n. at priming n. 2. Obs. (hist. in later use). | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| rere-account | A second or further account or reckoning. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| scuppet | A spade used for trenching and in making ditches; also, a similar instrument used for turning hops while drying. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| scuttle | Naut. A square or rectangular hole or opening in a ship's deck smaller than a… | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| serpentine powder | Gunpowder for use with the serpentine; gunpowder in fine meal as distinguished from the corned or granulated kind. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| sheet-anchor | A large anchor, formerly always the largest of a ship's anchors, used only in an emergency. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| shipmast | attrib. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| shoring | concr. The shores or props with which a building, vessel, etc. is held up. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| sixpenny | a nail originally costing sixpence per hundred. (See penny n. 5) Also fig. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| sledge-hammer | A large heavy hammer used by blacksmiths. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| small paper | Paper of the ordinary size, as distinct from large paper (see large adj. 8b). | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| snatch- | Naut. Denoting devices capable of rapid attachment, or to which a rope can be quickly… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| sounding-lead | The lead or plummet attached to the sounding-line. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| strand | Each of the strings or yarns which when twisted together or ‘laid’ form a rope, cord… | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| sweepstake | One who ‘sweeps’, or takes the whole of, the stakes in a game, etc.; usually fig. one who… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| swift | trans. To tighten or make fast by means of a rope or ropes drawn taut; e.g. the rigging… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| tackle | trans. To furnish (a ship) with tackle; to equip with the necessary furnishings. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tailing | = tail-rope n. 2a. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| tare | The weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods, which is deducted… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| topmast | A smaller mast fixed on the top of a lower mast; spec. the second section of a mast… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| touch-powder | A fine kind of gunpowder placed in the pan over the touch-hole in an old-fashioned firearm; priming-powder. Also attrib. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| tusserd(e | (?) | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| unmoor | trans. To free from moorings; spec. ‘to reduce (a ship) to the state of riding by a single anchor and cable’ (Falconer). | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| waist-tree | (See quot. 1846.) | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| watch-bell | A bell upon which the half-hourly periods in each watch are struck on board ship. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| wilkin | A ram; a pile-driving engine. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| wrike nail | ? A screw-nail. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
