Nautical dictionary

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	Pinky				"New England fishing and trading vessel usually 50" to 70" generally schooner rigged with or without a foresail, built with pointed stern same shape as the bow
	Housing - house-line				(Pronounced houze-lin), A small cord made of three small yarns, and used for seizings
	Tackle				(Pronounced tay-cle), a purchase, formed by a rope rove through one or more blocks
	Bowline				(Pronounced bo-lin), A rope leading forward from the leech of a square sail, to keep the leech well out when sailing close-hauled, A vessel is said to be on a bowline, or on a taut bowline, when she is close-hauled
	Boatswain				(Pronounced bo-s`n), A warrant officer in the navy, who has charge of the rigging, and calls the crew to duty
	Buntine				(Pronounced buntin) Thin woolen stuff of which a ship`s colors are made
	Coxswain				(Pronounced cox`n), The person who steers a boat and has charge of her
	Cross-jack				(Pronounced croj-jack), The sail cross-jack yard, this is the lower crossed yard on the mizzen mast
	Deep-sea-lead				(Pronounced dipsey), The lead used in sounding at great depths
	Gybe				(Pronounced jibe), to shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail
	Leeward				(Pronounced lu-ard), the lee side, in a direction opposite to that from which the wind blows, which is called windward, the opposite of lee is weather, and of leeward is windward
	Marline				(Pronounced mar-lin), small two-stranded stuff, used for marling, a finer kind of spunyarn
	Mall - maul				(Pronounced mawl), A heavy iron hammer used in driving bolts, see Top-Maul
	Ratlines				(Pronounced rat-lins), lines running across the shrouds, horizontally, like the rounds of a ladder, and used to step upon in going aloft
	Rope cutter				1:A tool used to cut rope, 2:A device attached to the prop shaft which cuts through ropes, plastic bags, nets, and other materials that may get tangled in the prop
	Channel				1:That part of a body of water deep enough for navigation through an area otherwise not suitable, It is usually marked by a single or double line of buoys and sometimes by range markers 2:The deepest part of a stream, bay, or strait, through which
	Barkentine				3 Masted with Square rigged on fore mast only
	Bark				3 Masted with Square rigged on fore and main mast
	Jack-block				A block used in sending topgallant masts up and down
	Shoe-block				A block with two sheaves, one above the other, the one horizontal and the other perpendicular
	Chain boat				A boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc
	An eye-splice				A certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope into a loop
	Truck				A circular piece of wood, placed at the head of the highest mast on a ship, it has small holes or sheaves in it for signal halyards to be rove through, also the wheel of a gun-carriage
	Tackle				A combination of blocks and line used to increase mechanical advantage
	Hold				A compartment below deck in a large vessel, used solely for carrying cargo
	Boot stripe				A different color strip of paint at the waterline
	Spencer				A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff and no boom, and hoisting from a small mast called a spencer-mast, just abaft the fore and main masts
	Gallows				A frame used to rest the boom when the sail is down
	Partners				A frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump
	Bowline				A knot use to form an eye or loop at the end of a rope
	Hawser				A large rope used for various purposes, as warping, for a spring
	Barber hauler				A line attached to the jib or jib sheet, used to adjust the angle of sheeting by pulling the sheet towards the centre line of the boat
	Pillar of the hold				A main stanchion with notches for descent and ascent
	Lead				A piece of lead in the shape of a cone or pyramid, with a small hole at the base, and a line attached to the upper end, used for sounding, see Hand-Lead, Deep-Sea-Lead
	Luff-tackle				A purchase composed of a double and single block
	Fag				A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted
	Vang				A rope leading from the peak of the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail to the rail on each side, and used for steadying the gaff
	Scrimshaw				A sailors carving or etching on bones, teeth, tusks or shells
	Rounding				A service of rope, hove round a spar or larger rope
	Anchorage				A sheltered place or area where a boat can anchor
	Scull				A short oar
	Moon-sail				A small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail
	Figure eight knot				A stopper knot for the end of the rope
	Hurricane				A strong tropical revolving storm of force 12(65 mph) or higher in the Northern Hemisphere, hurricanes revolve in a clockwise direction
	Planing hull				A type of hull shaped to glide easily across the water at high speed
	Rudder				A vertical plate or board for steering a boat
	Bitt				A vertically posted above deck used to secure line, the cables are fastened to them, if there is no windlass, there are also bitts to secure the windlass, and on each side of the heel of the bowsprit
	Free				A vessel is going free, when she has a fair wind and her yards braced in, a vessel is said to be free, when the water has been pumped out of her
	Bar				A bank or shoal at the entrance of a harbor
	Tiller				A bar of wood or iron, put into the head of the rudder, by which the rudder is moved
	Tiller				A bar or handle for turning a boats rudder or an outboard motor
	Stock				A beam of wood, or a bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank of an anchor, at right angles with the arms, an iron stock usually goes with a key, and unships
	Anchor ball				A black ball visible in all direction display in the forward part of a vessel at anchor
	Quarter-block				A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve through
	Thick-and-thin block				A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blocks
	Ninepin block				A block in the form of a ninepin, used for a fair-leader in the rail
	Heart				A block of wood in the shape of a heart, for stays to reeve through
	Hawse-block				A block of wood fitted into a hawse-hole at sea
	Fid				A block of wood or iron, placed through the hole in the heel of a mast, and resting on the trestletrees of the mast below, this supports the mast, also a wooden pin, tapered, used in splicing large ropes, in opening eyes
	Step				A block of wood secured to the keel, into which the heel of the mast is placed, to step a mast is to put it in its step
	Pillow				A block, which supports the inner end of the bowsprit
	Bluff				A bluff-bowed or bluff-headed vessel is one, which is full and square forward
	Lee-board				A board fitted to the lee side of flat-bottomed boats, to prevent their drifting to leeward
	Bank				A boat is double banked, when men seated on the same thwart pull two oars, one opposite the other
	Monohull				A boat with one hull
	Trimaran				A boat with three hulls
	Beam				a boat`s widest point, usually near the middle of the boat
	Pinnace				A boat, in size between the launch and a cutter
	Screw				A boats propeller
	Bow spring line				A bow pivot line used in docking (and undocking), or to prevent the boat from moving forward or astern while made fast to a pier
	Steeve				A bowsprit steeves more or less, according as it is raised more or less from the horizontal, the steeve is the angle it makes with the horizon, also, a long, heavy spar, with a place to fit a block at one end, and used in stowing certain kinds of
	Binnacle				A box near the helm, containing the compass
	Plat				A braid of foxes, see Fox
	Sennit - sinnit				A braid, formed by plaiting rope-yarns or spunyarn together, straw, plaited in the same way for hats, is called sennit
	Mooring buoy				A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom
	Cuddy				A cabin in the fore part of a boat
	Dead reckoning				A calculation of determining position by using course speed last known position
	Sheathing				A casing or covering on a vessel`s bottom
	Scuttlebutt				A cask with a hole cut in its bilge, and kept on deck to hold water for daily use
	Locker				A chest or box, to stow anything away in
	Deadeye				A circular block of wood, with three holes through it, for the lanyards of rigging to reeve through, without sheaves, and with a groove round it for an iron strap
	Manger				A coaming just within the hawsehole
	Quilting				A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven together
	Ground tackle				A collective term for the anchor and anchor gear and everything used in securing a vessel at anchor
	Jack				A common term for the jack-cross-trees, see Union
	Cabin				A compartment for passengers or crew
	Tell tale				A compass hanging from the beams of the cabin, which may know the heading of a vessel at any time, also an instrument connected with the barrel of the wheel, and traversing so that the officer may see the position of the tiller
	Spunyarn				A cord formed by twisting together two or three rope-yarns
	Rack-block				A course of blocks made from one piece of wood, for fair-leaders
	Hood				A covering for a companion hatch, skylight, etc
	Awning				A covering of canvass over a vessel`s deck, or over a boat, to keep off sun or rain
	Roach				A curve in the foot of a square sail, by which the clews are brought below the middle of the foot, the roach of a fore-and-aft sail is in its forward leech
	Fender				A cushion placed between boats, or between a boat and a pier, to prevent damage
	Poop				A deck raised over the after part of the spar deck, a vessel is pooped when the sea breaks over her stern
	Winch				A device used to increase hauling power when raising or trimming sails
	Buoy				A distinctively marked object that floats in the water as a navigational marker
	Watch				A division of time on board ship, there are seven watches in a day, reckoning from 12 M round through the 24 hours, five of them being of four hours each, and the two others, called dog watches, of two hours each, viz, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8
	Knot				A division on the log line, answering to a nautical mile of distance, a speed of one nautical mile per hour, the intertwining the parts of one or more ropes, to crown a knot, is to pass the strands over and under each other above the knot, etymolo
	Breast line				A docking line going at a right angle from the boat to the dock
	Stern line				A docking line leading away from the stern
	Bow line				A docking line leading from the bow
	Leading-wind				A fair wind, more particularly applied to a wind abeam or quartering
	Boat				A fairly indefinite term - A waterborne vehicle smaller than a ship, a small craft carried aboard a ship
	The eyes of a vessel				A familiar phrase for the forward part
	Stop				A fastening of small stuff, also small projections on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast, at the upper parts of the hounds
	Ribs				A figurative term for a vessel`s timbers
	Rudder				A fin or blade attached under the hullãs sstern used for steering
	Zulu				A fishing vessel from the north-east of scotland
	Chock				A fitting through which anchor or mooring lines are led, usually U-shaped to reduce chafe
	Cleat				A fitting, usually with two horn-shaped ends, to which lines are made fast, the classic cleat is almost anvil-shaped
	Day beacon				A fixed navigation aid structure used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks
	Forelock				A flat piece of iron, driven through the end of a bolt, to prevent its drawing
	Hog				A flat rough broom, used for scrubbing the bottom of a vessel
	Buoy				A floating navigation aid, a floating cask, or piece of wood, attached by a rope to an anchor, to show its position, also floated over a shoal, or other dangerous place as a beacon, to stream a buoy, is to drop it into the water before letting go
	Trysail				A fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, and hoisting on a small mast abaft the lower mast, called a trysail-mast, this name is generally confined to the sail so carried at the mainmast of a full-rigged brig, those carried at the foremast an
	Yankee				A foresail flying above and forward of thee jib, usually seen on bowsprit vessels
	Bow-grace				A frame of old ropes or junk placed round the bows and sides of a vessel, to prevent the ice from injuring her
	Gaff				A free-swinging spar attached to the top of a fore-and-aft sail
	Timber				A general term for all large pieces of wood used in shipbuilding, also more particularly, long pieces of wood in a curved form, bending outward, and running from the keel up, on each side, forming the ribs of a vessel, the keel, stem, sternposts a
	Gear				A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment
	Score				A groove in a block or dead-eye
	Legend				A group of symbols and definitions on a chart or map
	Clinch				A half-hitch stopped to its own part
	Anchor	Ancla	Anker	Anker	A heavy metal device, fastened to a chain or line, to hold a vessel in position, partly because of its weight, but mainly because the designed shape digs into the bottom
	Pink-stern				A high, narrow stern
	Scuttle				A hole cut in a vessel`s deck, as a hatchway, also a hole cut in any part of a vessel
	Hawse hole				A hole in the hull for mooring lines to run through
	Eyelet-hole				A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through
	Leak				A hole or breach in a vessel, at which the water comes in
	Fishhook				A hook with a pennant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked
	Dorade				A horn type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out
	Caboose				A house on deck, where the cooking is done, Commonly called the Galley
	V-bottom				A hull with the bottom section in the shape of a V
	Log - logbook				A journal kept by the chief officer, in which the situation of the vessel, winds, weather, courses, distances, and everything of importance that occurs, is noted down
	Snow				A kind of brig, formerly used
	Duck				A kind of cloth, lighter and finer than canvass, used for small sails
	Flemish-eye				A kind of eye-splice
	Cat`s-paw				A kind of hitch made in a rope, a light current of air seen on the surface of the water during a calm
	Sheep-shank				A kind of hitch or bend, used to shorten a rope temporarily
	Marling-hitch				A kind of hitch used in marling
	Carrick-bend				A kind of knot
	A bend				A knot by which one rope is made fast to another
	Clove hitch				A knot for temporarily fastening a line to a spar or piling
	Figure eight knot				A knot in the form of a figure eight, placed in the end of a line to prevent the line from passing through a grommet or a block
	Mousing				A knot or puddening, made of yarns, and placed on the outside of a rope
	Wall				A knot put on the end of a rope
	Bowline knot				A knot used to form a temporary loop in the end of a line
	Square knot				A knot used to join two lines of similar size, also called a reef knot
	Sheet bend				A knot used to join two ropes, functionally different from a square knot in that it can be used between lines of different diameters
	Hitch				A knot used to secure a rope to another object or to another rope, or to form a loop or a noose in a rope
	Cuckold`s neck				A knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope crossing each other, and seized together
	Clove hitch				A knot, two half hitches around a spar, post or rope
	Scotchman				A large batten placed over the turnings-in of rigging, see Batten
	Barge				A large double-banked boat used by the commander of a vessel, in the navy
	Top-block				A large ironbound block, hooked into a bolt under the lower cap, and used for the top-rope to reeve throug
	Garland				A large rope, strap or grommet, lashed to a spar when hoisting it inboard
	Holy-stone				A large stone, used for cleaning a ship`s decks
	Spinnaker				A large triangular sail carried forward of the main mast on modern sailing ships, used when running before the wind, first introduced on the yatch Sphinx during the 1870`s and origionally called a Spinxer
	Surge				A large, swelling wave, to surge a rope or cable is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan
	Viol - voyal				A larger messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan, also the block through which the messenger passes
	Ship				A larger vessel usually used for ocean travel, according to Websters, a sailing vessel usually having a bowsprit and three masts each composed of a lower mast, a top mast, and a topgallant mast, also a vessel that is able to carry a boat on bo
	Hypothermia				A life threatening condition in which the bodys temperature are subnormal and the entire body cools
	Royal				A light sail next above a topgallant sail
	Skysail				A light sail next above the royal
	Gaff-topsail				A light sail set over a gaff, the foot being spread by it
	Beacon	Baliza			A lighted or unlighted fixed aid to navigation attached directly to the earths surface Lights and daybeacons, both constitute beacons
	Painter				A line attached to the bow of a boat for use in towing or making fast
	Spurling line				A line communicating between the tiller and tell-tale
	Tripline				A line fast to the crown of an anchor by means of which it can be hauled out when dug too deeply or fouled, a similar line used on a sea anchor to bring it aboard
	Topping lift				A line or wire for lifting the boom
	Stay				A line or wire from the mast to the bow or stern of a ship, for support of the mast (fore, back, running, and triadic stays)
	Shroud				A line or wire running from the top of the mast to the spreaders, then attaching to the side of the vessel
	Waterline				A line painted on a hull which shows the point to which a boat sinks when it is properly trimmed
	Fancy-line				A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul, also a line used for cross-hauling the lee topping-lift
	After leading				A line that lead from its point of attachment toward the stern
	Spring line				A line tied between two opposing forces that has a neutralizing effect, at the dock with a bow line and stern line tied off, a spring line is often added to limit the movements of a vessel even more
	Tripping line				A line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down
	Ramline				A line used in mast-making to get a straight middle line on a spar
	Top-lining				A lining on the after part of sails, to prevent them from chafing against the top-rim
	Tar				A liquid gum, taken from pine and fir trees, and used for caulking, and to put upon yarns in rope-making, and upon standing rigging, to protect it from the weather
	Pier				A loading/landing platform extending at an angle from the shore
	Handspike				A long wooden bar, used for heaving at the windlass
	Swivel				A long link of iron, used in chain cables, made so as to turn upon an axis and keep the turns out of a chain
	Pendant - pennant				A long narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead, broad pennant is a square piece, carried in the same way, in a commodore`s vessel, a rope to which a purchase is hooked, a long strap fitted at one end to a yard or masthead, with a hook
	Sister block				A long piece of wood with two sheaves in it, one above the other, with a score between them for a seizing, and a groove around the block, lengthwise
	Yard				A long piece of timber or spar, tapering slightly toward the ends, and hung by the centre to a mast, to spread the square sails upon
	Fiddle-block				A long shell having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper
	Bowsprit				A long spar attached to the Jibboom in the bow, used to secure headsails
	Oar				A long wooden instrument with a flat blade at one end, used for propelling boats
	Luff-upon-luff				A luff tackle applied to the fall of another
	Camel				A machine used for lifting vessels over a shoal or bar
	Drag				A machine with a bag net, used for dragging on the bottom for anything lost
	Made				A made mast or block is one composed of different pieces, a ship`s lower mast is a made spar, her topmast is a whole spar
	Jetty				A man made structure projecting from the shore, breakwater protecting a harbor entrance
	Wharf				A manmade structure bonding the edge of a dock and built along or at an angle to the shoreline, used for loading, unloading, or tying up vessels
	Grafting				A manner of covering a rope by weaving together yarns
	Chart				A map for use by navigators
	Chart				A map of part of the sea, showing currents, depths, islands, coasts, etc
	Abandonment				A marine insurance term indicating that the cost of repairs to a vessel is more than the cost of the vessel and cargo
	Head				A marine toilet, also the upper corner of a triangular sail
	Lubbers line				A mark or permanent line on a compass indicating the direction forward, parallel to the keel when properly installed
	Knot				A measure of speed equal to one nautical mile (6076 feet) per hour, A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to enclose or bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to an object, or to tie the ends of two s
	Nautical mile				A measurement used by sailors that equals 6,080 feet (a land mile is 5,280 feet)
	Bilge pump				A mechanical, electrical, or manually operated pump used to remove water from the bilge
	Pintle				A metal bolt, used for hanging a rudder
	Dowelling				A method of coaking, by letting pieces into the solid, or uniting two pieces together by tenoning
	Swab				A mop, formed of old rope, used for cleaning and drying decks
	Mortice				A morticed block is one made out of a whole block of wood with a hole cut in it for the sheave in distinction from a made block
	Sky-scraper				A name given to a skysail when it is triangular
	Pommelion				A name given by seamen to the cascable or hindmost knob on the breech of a cannon, the pomelions were used to keep damp out of cannons during non-fighting periods and keep rust (and/or salt) from building up inside the barrel, this was probably 99
	Mare liberum				A navigable body of water, such as sea, that is open to navigation by vessels of all nations
	Mare clausum				A navigable body of water, such as sea, that is under the jurisdication of one nation and closed to all others
	Maiden voyage				A new boat`s first trip
	Strand				A number of rope-yarns twisted together, three, four or nine strands twisted together form a rope, a rope is stranded when one of its strands is parted or broken by chafing or by a strain, a vessel is stranded when she is driven on shore
	Crow-foot				A number of small lines rove through the uvrou to suspend an awning by
	Nippers				A number of yarns marled together, used to secure a cable to the messenger
	Yeoman				A officer under the boatswain employed in a vessel of war to take charge of a storeroom as, boatswain`s yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of rigging
	Bridge deck				A partition between the cockpit and the cabin
	Hitch				A peculiar manner of fastening ropes
	Deck				A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of a ship serving as a floor
	Eye splice				A permanent loop spliced in the end of a line
	Quarter-master				A petty officer in a man-of-war, who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, and watches for signals
	Inner-post				A piece brought on at the fore side of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms upon
	Strap				A piece of rope spliced rounds a block to keep its parts well together, some blocks have iron straps, in which case they are called iron bound
	Drabler				A piece of canvass laced to the bonnet of a sail, to give it more drop
	Glut				A piece of canvass sewed into the center of a sail near the head, it has an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through
	Tarpaulin				A piece of canvass, covered with tar, used for covering hatches, boats, etc, also the name commonly given to a sailor`s hat when made of tarred or painted cloth
	Hammock				A piece of canvass, hung at each end, in which seamen sleep
	Sail				A piece of cloth that catches the wind and so powers a vessel, they are of two kinds: square sails, which hang from yards, their foot lying across the line of the keel, as the courses, topsails and fore-and-aft sails, which set upon gaffs, or on
	Stemson				A piece of compass-timber, fixed on the after part of the apron inside, the lower end is scarfed into the keelson, and receives the scarf of the stem, through which it is bolted
	Palm				A piece of leather fitted over the hand, with an iron for the head of a needle to press against in sewing upon canvass, also the fluke of an anchor
	Fore-runner				A piece of rag, terminating the stray-line of the log-line
	Becket				A piece of rope placed so as to confines a spar or another rope, a handle made of rope, in the form of a circle, (as the handle of a chest) Is called a becket
	Lizard				A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it, it is used for various purposes, one with two legs, and a thimble to each, is often made fast to the topsail for the buntlines to reeve through, a single one
	Arming				A piece of tallow put in the cavity and over the bottom of a lead-line
	Dagger				A piece of timber crossing all the puppets of the bilge-ways to keep them together
	Forefoot				A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel, upon which the lower end of the stem rests
	Scrowl				A piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure-head
	Cross-piece				A piece of timber connecting two bitts
	Apron				A piece of timber fixed behind the lower part of the stern, just above the fore end of the keel, a covering to the vent or lock of a cannon
	Helm-port-transom				A piece of timber placed across the lower counter, inside, at the height of the helm-port, and bolted through every timber, for the security of that port
	Stem				A piece of timber reaching from the forward end of the keel, to which it is scarfed, up to the bowsprit, and to which the two sides of the vessel are united
	Eiking				A piece of wood fitted to make good a deficiency in length
	Yoke				A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat`s rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered
	Shoe				A piece of wood used for the bill of an anchor to rest upon, to save the vessel`s side, also for the heels of shears
	Cleat				A piece of wood with two horns used in different parts of a vessel to belay ropes to
	Euvrou				A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended, see Uvrou
	Plug				A piece of wood, fitted into a hole in a vessel or boat, so as to let in or keep out water
	Toggle				A pin placed through the bight or eye of a rope, block-strap, or bolt, to keep it in its place, or to put the bight or eye of another rope upon, and thus to secure them both together
	Spring line				A pivot line used in docking, undocking, or to prevent the boat from moving forward or astern while made fast to a dock
	Anchorage				A place suitable for anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom
	Lines drawing				A plan showing, in three views, the moulded surface of the vessel
	Top				A platform, placed over the head of a lower mast, resting on the trestletrees, to spread the rigging, and for the convenience of men aloft, to top up a yard or boom, is to raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift
	Dead reckoning				A plot of courses steered and distances traveled through the water
	Beam reach				A point of sail where the boat is sailing at a right angle to the apparent wind
	Broad reach				A point of sailing where the boat is moving away from the wind, but not directly downwind
	Spar				A pole or a beam
	Staff				A pole or mast, used to hoist flags upon
	Yellow admiral				a post captain is posted to rear admiral on retirement without serving in that rank
	Inner sternpost				A post on the inside, corresponding to the sternpost
	Beacon				A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels off, also as a signal-mark on land
	Spring-stay				A preventer-stay, to assist the regular one, see Stay
	Stabber				A Pricker
	Shore				A prop or stanchion, placed under a beam
	Taffrail log				A propeller drawn through the water that operates a meter on the boat registering the speed and distance sailed
	Dock				A protected water area in which vessels are moored, the term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf
	Block				A pulley used to gain mechanical advantage
	Winch				A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with a wheel or crank at the end, a small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spunyarn
	Whip				A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block, to whip, is to hoist by a whip, also to secure the end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine, Whip-upon-whip, one whip applied to the fall of another
	Gun-tackle purchase				A purchase made by two single blocks
	Garnet				A purchase on the main stay, for hoisting cargo
	Jack-screw				A purchase, used for stowing cotton
	Range of cable				A quantity of cable, more or less, placed in order for letting go the anchor or paying out
	Price				A quantity of spunyarn or rope laid close up together
	Puddening				A quantity of yarns, matting or oakum, used to prevent chafing
	Fife rail				A rail around the mast with hole for belaying pins
	Tier				A range of casks, also the range of the fakes of a cable or hawser, the cable tier is the place in a hold or between decks where the cables are stowed
	Streak - strake				A range of planks running fore-and-aft on a vessel`s side
	Ebb tide				A receding tide, a period or state of decline
	Log				A record of courses or operation, also a device to measure speed
	Balance-reef				A reef in a spanker or fore-and-aft mainsail, which runs from the outer head-earing, diagonally, to the tack, it is the closest reef, and makes the sail triangular, or nearly so
	Pitch				A resin taken from pine, and used for filling up the seams of a vessel
	Grommet				A ring formed of rope, by laying round a single strand
	Eye-bolt				A ring through eye, it is called a ring-bolt, a long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel`s deck or side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to
	Painter				A rope attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast
	Guy				A rope attaching to anything to steady it, and bear it one way and another in hoisting
	Messenger				A rope used for heaving in a cable by the capstan
	Downhaul				A rope used to haul down jibs, staysails, and studdingsails
	Pazaree				A rope attached to the clew of the foresail and rove through a block on the swinging boom, used for guying the clews out when before the wind
	Earing				A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed
	Slip-rope				A rope bent to the cable just outside the hawsehole, and brought in on the weather quarter, for slipping
	Fast				A rope by which a vessel is secured to a wharf, there are bow or head, breast, quarter, and stern fasts
	Brace				A rope by which a yard is turned about
	Timenoguy				A rope carried taut between different parts of the vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul, in working ship
	Tye				A rope connected with a yard, to the other end of which a tackle is attached for hoisting
	Guess-warp - guess-rope				A rope fastened to a vessel or wharf, and used to tow a boat by or to haul it out to the swing-boom-end, when in port
	Snotter				A rope going over a yard-arm, with an eye, used to bend a tripping-line to in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war
	Jacobs ladder				A rope ladder with wooden steps
	Gob-line - gaub-line				A rope leading from the martingale inboard, the same as back-rope
	Dolphin				A rope or strap round a mast to support the puddening, where the lower yards rest in the slings, in addition a spar or buoy with a large ring in it, secured to an anchor, to which vessels may bend their cables
	Breast-rope				A rope passed round a man in the chains, while sounding
	Limber-rope				A rope rove fore-and-aft through the limbers, to clear them if necessary
	Girtline				A rope rove through a single block aloft, making a whip purchase, commonly used to hoist rigging by, in fitting it
	Triatic stay				A rope secured at each end to the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced into its bight, to hook the stay tackles to
	Tail				A rope spliced into the end of a block and used for making it fast to rigging or spars, such a block is called a tail-block, a ship is said to tail up or down stream, when at anchor, according as her stern swings up or down with the tide in op
	Clew-garnet				A rope that hauls up the clew of a foresail or mainsail in a square-rigged vessel
	Clewline				A rope that hauls up the clew of a square sail,the clew-garnet is the clewline of a course
	Out-haul				A rope used for hauling out the clew of a boom sail
	Leachline