The several Ranks of Guns placed on the Decks are called the Lower, Middle, or Upper Tier. Tender Is a small Vessel taken up on Contract for attending the Men of War, and employed for pressing Seamen, _&c._ Thauts Are for the Men which row the Boats to sit on. Thimbles Are a Sort of round Rings, whose Edges are turned up, and the Ropes go round in the hollow Part of the Outside of them when they are seized, in order to prevent the Tackle Hook from galling the Rope. Thoals Are those Pins in the Gunwale of a Boat, between which the Men put their Oars when they row. Thrums Are allowed the Boatswains and Carpenters to make Mops; and also to the Master Caulker for Mops to Pay the Ships Bottoms. Thwart Ship Is across the Ship. Tides Two periodical Motions of the Waters of the Sea, called the Flux and Reflux, or the Ebb and Flow. Ties Or Runners, are those Ropes by which the Yards hang, and they with the Halyards carry or hoist the Yards up. Tiller The very same with the Helm of a Ship, and are also used in small Ships and Boats for Steering them. Tiller for Saws Are Handles for Whip Saws. Timber Ash Is used by the Master House Carpenter in Wheelwright Work. Beech Is used for Ways at the Bottom of the Dock, and sometimes cut into Keel-pieces. Elm Is used for making Drumheads, for Capstons, Ships Caps, Keel-pieces, Lyons, Tafferels, _&c._ Firr Is used for making Davits, by the House Carpenters for Girders, and such like large Uses in Building. Oak Compass Is used by the Shipwrights, and converted for the Compassing Timbers of a Ship. Streight Is used by the Shipwrights for Beams on board a Ship, and for other Services that it is requisite to be used on, and also by the House Carpenter in his Way of building. Timbers Are those which Form the Body of a Ship, as Floor Timbers, Futtocks, _&c._ Timbers Top Are the upper Timbers in the Frame of a Ship, forming her Sides, _&c._ Tin Plates Double Single Are used for lining the Bread, Cook, and Powder Rooms of Ships, covering the Tops of their Galleries, and for fining Oars, _&c._ Tight When a Ship lets in but very little Water, she is Tight, which is known by the Smell o£ that pumped out, for if she lets in but little, it will always stink, otherwise not. Tire Cable The Row in the Middle of the Coiled Cable. Toggle A short Piece of Wood made tapering at each End, having a Score cut in the Middle of it, where a Rope is usually fastened, and when put through the Bite of another, there is no Occasion of seizing them together. Top Is a round Frame of Boards which lie upon the Cross-trees, near the Head of the standing Masts. Top Armours Are cut out of red Kersey, and tabled round with Canvas, hung about the Top for Show, and also cover the Men which are in the Tops in a Fight. Tops Laying