The same as draw, but when they cannot haul any Thing with the Tackle, they say, The Tackle will not Purchase. Purser Is the Officer charged with all Sorts of Provisions allowed the Ship. Puttock Shrouds Are short Shrouds which go from the Fore, Main, and Mizon Shrouds to the Top, where the Plates are fixed with dead Eyes in them, through which the Lanyards are reeved for setting up the Top-mast Shrouds. Puttock Staves Go a-cross the lower Shrouds, and the Ends of the Puttock Shrouds are hitched round them. Quarter Is the After-part of the Ship without-board Aloft. Quartering Is when a Ship sails upon a Quarter Wind. Quarter Pieces Are two Pieces of carved Work reconciled to each End of the Tafferel, and when regularly suited to the same with a just Disposition of Figures, compleats the beautiful Symetry of the whole Stern and Gallery. Quarter Tackle Pendants Fastened on the Quarters of the Yard, and are used for taking in or hoisting Provisions, _&c._ out of the Hold, or upon Deck. Rabbet Is letting in a Ship's Plank to her Keel, which in the Run of her are hollowed away, and is called the Rabbet of her Keel. Racks Stand in the Cook-Room, at each End of the Grates, for the Spits to lye on to roast Victuals. Rafters Are brought from _New England_ and _Dantzick_, and being Ash, Barge, Pinnace and Wherry Oars, are made out of them. Rails Are generally composed of some regular Members of Architecture, they lye over and under the Banisters and Lights of the Stern and Galleries; are also ranged along the Side under several Denominations, as Sheer Rail, Plansheer Rail, Drift Rail, _&c._ they are also the principal Ornament in composing the Head of a Ship. Rake Is so much of a Ship's Hull as over-hangs the Stem and Stern; that Part of it Afore is called her Rake Forward, and that Abaft at the Stern Post, is called her Rake Aft. Ranges Are a Sort of Cleats, to which they belay or fasten the Spritsail, Fore, Main or Mizon Sheats. Ratlings Are small Ropes which make the Steps to get up the Shrouds, therefore are called Ratlings. Reach The Distance of two Points of Land which bear in a right Line to one another. Reckonings In Navigation, the estimating of the Quantity of the Ship's Way, or of the Run between one Place and another. Reef When there is a great Gale of Wind, they commonly Roll up Part of the Sail at the Head, by which Means it becomes Shoaler, and so draws not so much Wind; and this contracting or taking up the Sail they call Reefing, which is done with the Reef Tackle Pendants, Tyes, and Falls. Reeming Irons Are used by the Caulkers for opening the Seams of the Planks of Ships on the Stocks before caulked. Reeve Is to put a Rope through a Block; and, to pull a Rope out of a Block, is called Unreeving. Reflux Of the Sea, the Ebbing of the Water, or its Return from the Shore. Rends In a Ship, are the same as the Seams between her Planks. Rhombs The Points of the Compass.