Produced by Ted Garvin, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE SAILOR'S WORD-BOOK: AN ALPHABETICAL DIGEST OF NAUTICAL TERMS, INCLUDING SOME MORE ESPECIALLY MILITARY AND SCIENTIFIC, BUT USEFUL TO SEAMEN; AS WELL AS ARCHAISMS OF EARLY VOYAGERS, ETC. BY THE LATE ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c. REVISED FOR THE PRESS BY VICE-ADMIRAL SIR E. BELCHER, K.C.B., &c. &c. [Device] LONDON: BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH. 1867. GLASGOW: W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS, VILLAFIELD. Transcriber's Note: Dialect, variant and obsolete spellings remain as printed. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant changes have been listed at the end of the text. Superscript characters are preceded by the ^ character. Greek text appears as printed. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. The recent loss of Admiral William Henry Smyth, noticed as it was by the leading periodicals, will have recalled to many, not only the social character and amiable qualities of the compiler of this Work, but also his distinguished professional career and high reputation as an officer, a navigator, and a seaman, which will be a guarantee for the details of this posthumous publication.