Are large Stakes drove into the Earth for a Foundation to build on, or to make Dams, _&c._ Pilot Is he which directs the Men at the Wheel how to steer. Pillow The Piece of Timber whereon the Bowsprit resteth close by the Stem. Pins Block For the Shives to run on. Turn'd To belay Ropes to. Tyle Used by the Bricklayers in Slates and Tyles. Pintles Are those Hooks by which the Rother hangs to the Stern Post. Pirate A Person or Vessel that robs on the High Seas, or makes Descents on the Coasts, _&c._ without Permission or Authority of any Prince or State. Pitch For paying Seams, and all out-board work after caulked. Pitches When a Ship falls with her Head too much into the Sea, or beats against it so as to endanger her Top Masts, they say, She will Pitch her Masts by the Board. Plain Sailing Is the Art of finding all the Varieties of the Ship's Motion. Plank Is sawed out of the strongest Beech, Elm, and Oak Timber, brought on to the Ship's Sides, and the latter used for laying their Decks, is cut from four Inches to one Inch and an Half thick; all above four Inches is called thick Stuff; and that cut out of Timber which grows compassing two Ways, is called Croaky; and such whose Edges happen to be circular, is called Snying. Plates Backstay Chain Has a dead Eye, Iron bound at one End, through which the Lanyards of the Shrouds and Back Stays are reeved; and the other End has an Eye through which the Chain Bolt is drove into the Ship's Sides. Puttock Are for Fore-top-mast Shrouds, as the Chain are for the low Shrouds, but with this difference, the dead Eyes are bound into the Plates, and they have Hooks at the End of them. Top Are square and small, nailed on the Rim, through which the Puttock Plates go, and prevent their wearing the Top away. Platts Are made flat, out of Rope Yarn, and waved one over another, their Use is to save the Cable from galling in the Hawse. Pointing Is when the Strands of a Cable, or Rope about two Feet, are untwisted, and afterwards made less towards the End, in a tapering Manner, where it is made fast, with Marline wove into the Yarns; the Design of which is, to keep the Rope from raffling out, or that none may be cut off and stole away. Pointers Are Pillars in an oblique Position from the Floor Rider-heads on each Side, (pointing) or meeting each other at the Middle of the Gundeck Beams. Poop Is the Floor or Deck over the Round-house, being the highest or uppermost Part of the Hull of a Ship. Ports Are those Holes in a Ship's Side through which her Guns are put out. Port the Helm Signifies to put the Helm to the Left or Larboard Side; but they never say, Larboard the Helm, but always Port; though it is proper to say, Starboard the Helm, when it is put to the Right Side. A Ship is also said to heel a Port, when she swims not upright, but leans to the Left Side. Port Last