| abox | Of the head-yards of a sailing vessel: in a position with only the headsails laid aback. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| careenage | A careening-place (cf. anchorage n. 2a). | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| casuarina | A genus of curious trees, with jointed leafless branches, having the appearance… | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| centi- | combining form of Latin centum hundred, used in the French Metric system of weights and… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| chock | with adverbs, as chock aft, chock-home, chock-tight, chock-up. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| close-reef | To reef closely, to take in all the reefs of (a sail or ship); orig. and chiefly in pa. pple. ˈclose-reefed adj. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| Congreve | More fully Congreve rocket: A kind of rocket for use in war, invented in 1808 by Col. Sir William Congreve (1772 – 1828). | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| cuboidal | Having a form resembling or approximating to that of a cube. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| décime | A French coin of the value of one-tenth of a franc. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| decker | A gun belonging to a particular deck of a ship of war; as in lower-decker, a gun belonging to the lower deck. | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| disrate | trans. To reduce (a petty officer or non-commissioned officer of marines) to a lower rating or rank. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| effloresced | That has crystallized on the surface; also, that has crumbled to powder. (See the vb.) | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| embrasure | trans. To furnish with embrasures. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| estacado | = estacade n. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| eucalyptus | A genus of plants of the family Myrtaceæ; the Gum-tree of Australia and the… | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| fiddle-head | Naut. The ornamental carving at the bows of a vessel, the termination of which is a… | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| fog-signal | Naut. (See quot. 1867.) | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| goke | The core or heart (of a rope): see quot. 1800. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| gulpin | One who will swallow anything; a credulous person, a simpleton; Naut., a marine. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| hectare | In the Metric system, a superficial measure containing 100 ares, or 2·471 acres. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| hectogramme | In the Metric system, a weight containing 100 grammes, or 3·52 oz. avoirdupois. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| hectolitre | In the Metric system, a measure of capacity containing 100 litres, or 3·531 cubic feet, or about 2¾ bushels. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| hectometre | In the Metric system, a measure of length containing 100 metres, or 328·089 feet. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| humantin | A small, spiny-skinned shark with a distinctive angled body shape, Oxynotus centrina… | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| junk-bottle | A thick strong bottle made of green or black glass, ‘the ordinary black glass porter bottle’ (Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 1860). | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| kilolitre | In the Metric system, a measure of capacity containing 1000 litres. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| kilometre | In the Metric system, a measure of length containing 1000 metres, or 3280.89 feet… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| marmennill | A merman. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| millilitre | One-thousandth of a litre (approx. 0.0338 fluid ounce, 0.0610 cubic inch). Symbol ml. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| millistere | One-thousandth of a cubic metre; a cubic decimetre. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| necrologist | The author of an obituary notice. Also in extended use. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| octoreme | An ancient ship, perh. one with eight rowers to each oar. (In quot. 1890 humorously: an eight-oared boat.) Cf. quinquereme n. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| piscatorious | That catches fish. (In quot. 1916 a humorous nickname for an angler.) | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| ratanhia | The root of the plant rhatany, Krameria triandra, from which a medicinal extract is… | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| rove | Only in rove-ash: (of an oar) made of riven ash. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| scouted | Scorned, flouted. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| semaphoric | Relating to, of the nature of, a semaphore. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| sheaved | Having or containing a (thin, etc.) sheave. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| skylark | To frolic or play; to play tricks; to indulge in rough sport or horse-play. In early use chiefly Naut. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| slop | trans. To provide with slops or cheap ready-made clothing. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| stampee | A counterfeit coin formerly circulated in the West Indies. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| thirteener | A silver shilling; = thirteen n. 2 thirteener and a baubee: see thirteen n. 2. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| toggy | A kind of overcoat for the arctic regions. | 1742 | Go To Quotation |
| tschaike | App. a form of caïque n. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| unshotted | Not loaded with shot. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| wash-strake | = washboard n. 1. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |