A naval expositor : $b shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea — John Shaqi
A naval expositor : $b shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for seaBlanckley, Thomas Riley
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A naval expositor : $b shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea
Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Naval art and science -- Dictionaries
Quarter Pieces — — 127
Brackets — — — 21
Well — — — 185
Pumps — — — 124
Limber Boards — — 97
Garboard Strake, or } 63
Plank }
Blkheads — — — 23
Ports — — — 122
Cathead — — — 30
Chestrees — — — 34
Hatchways — — — 72
Scuttles — — — 143
Grateings — — — 66
Ladders — — — 88
Manger — — — 103
Pallating Magazine }
and }114
Bread-room }
Gunwales — — — 68
Rails — — — 128
Gangways — — — 63
Cleats — — — 35
Kevels — — — 86
Ranges — — — 129
Knight Heads — — — 87
Rother — — — 137
Tiller — — — 170
Scuppers — — — 143
Standards — — — 158
Rufftrees — — — 139
Poop Lanterns — — — 89
Cradle } For { 44
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Buildgeways } { 23
N. B. _All the foregoing Particulars, upon any Emergency, may, by a
sufficient Number of Men, be taken in Hand very nearly together._
A
_Naval Expositor_.
A-Baft
Are those Parts which are towards the Stern of a Ship.
Amain
A Sea Term, to strike a Main, is to lower at once.
Anchors
The Parts of an Anchor are, _First_, The Ring unto which the Cable is
bent or fastened.
_Secondly_, The Shank, which is the longest Part of the Anchor; and at
the End where the Ring goes through, is called the Eye, and wrought
Square with two Nutts on it, which are let into the Stock.
_Thirdly_, The Arm is from the Crown to the Flook.
_Fourthly_, The Flook, by some called the Palm, being that broad Part
brought on upon the Arm, like an Arrow Head, the sharpest Part of
which is called the Bill, and fastens into the Ground.
The Anchors on board a Man of War are the Sheat, Spare, Best and Small
Bower, which by the Establishment, are all of one Weight, the Stream
one Fourth, the Kedge one Eighth, of the large ones; and the First and
Second Rates are allowed a small warping one, one Half the Weight of
the Kedge.
When the Cable is Perpendicular between the Hawse and the Anchor, it
is then said to be a Peek; when hangs right up and down by the Ship's
Side, it is said to be a Cock Bill, upon the Ship's coming to an
Anchor; when a Ship drives by the Violence of Wind or Tide, and the
Anchor cannot hold her, then it's said to come Home. Those which have
lost one of their Flooks, are made use of for Moarings.
Anchor Stock
A Piece of Wood fastened together with Iron Hoops and Treenails upon
the Square near the Ring, serving to guide the Flook, so as it may fall
right and fix in the Ground.
Ditto Tackle
Are for Loosing too the Stock, so as to be clear of the Bends.
Anchoring
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