Sparrs Ft. Cant Are from 33 to 35 long 5 Hands } { Wrought into } { Booms, } { Barling 30 28 4 } { Top-gallant-masts, } { Boom 24 20 3 } { Flag Staffs, } { Boats Masts, _&c._ Midling 20 16 } { Delivered } { } { into Store. } { For Bowsprits, } { } { Boat Hooks, Small 16 11 } { Six Score to} { Mop Staves, _&c._ } { the hundred } { Spell Signifies doing any Work for a short Time, and then leaving it. Therefore a fresh Spell is when fresh Men come to work; and to give a Spell, is all one as to say, Work in such a one's Room. Spiles Are small Wood Pins, which are drove into the Nail-holes, when a Ship's Sheathing is taken off. Spindle Is the smallest Part of a Ship's Capston; and where the Vane flies at the Mast Head, is also called a Spindle, and made of Iron. Spitts Are allowed the Boatswains, and used for roasting the Officers Victuals. Spirketing Are Strakes of thick Plank wrought from the lower Edge of each Port to each Deck respectively within Side of the Ship. Splice When the Ends of two Pieces of Cable or Rope are untwisted, and the several Strands are wrought into one another by a Fid, it is called a Splice. Split When a Sail is blown to pieces, it is Split. Spooning When a Ship being under Sail in a Storm at Sea, and cannot bear it, but is forced to put before the Wind, then she Spoons. Spring When a Mast is only crack'd, but not quite broken in any Part of it, as in the Partners, Hounds, _&c._ then it is Sprung. Spunyarn Is made out of Junk, old Cordage, _&c._ Spurketts The Holes or Spaces between the Futtocks or Rungs by the Ship's Sides, Standing-part Of the Sheat, is that which is made fast to a Ring at the Ship's Quarter; when they say over-haul the Sheat, they mean haul upon the Standing Part; and the Standing Part of a Tackle is the End of the Rope where the Block is seized or fastened. Standing Rigging Are those Ropes which do not run in any Block, but are set taught, or let slack, as occasion serves, as the Shrouds, Stays, Back-stays, _&c._ Standards Are a Sort of Knees fay'd from the Deck to the Sides of the Ship within-board, to strengthen her in the same Manner as Knees, but are bigger. Stantions Iron Are fixed on the Quarters of a Ship, to which the Nettings are generally seized; they stand likewise in the Waste, at the Entering Place, and in the Tops. Wood Are those Timbers which being set up Pillarwise, do support and strengthen the Decks, _&c._ Staples