CRUIVES. Inclosed spaces in a dam or weir for taking salmon. CRUMMY. Fleshy or corpulent. CRUPPER. The train tackle ring-bolt in a gun-carriage. CRUSADO. _See_ CRUZADO. CRUTCH, OR CROTCH. A support fixed upon the taffrail for the main boom of a sloop, brig, cutter, &c., and a chock for the driver-boom of a ship when their respective sails are furled. Also, crooked timber inside the after-peak of a vessel, for securing the heels of the cant or half-timbers: they are fayed and bolted on the foot-waling. Also, stanchions of wood or iron whose upper parts are forked to receive masts, yards, and other spars, and which are fixed along the sides and gangways. Crutches are used instead of rowlocks, and also on the sides of large boats to support the oars and spars. CRUZADO. A Portuguese coin of 480 reis, value 2_s._ 7-1/4_d._ sterling in Portugal; in England, 2_s._ to 2_s._ 2_d._ CUBBRIDGE HEADS. The old bulk-heads of the forecastle and half-decks, wherein were placed the "murderers," or guns for clearing the decks in emergency. CUBE. A solid body inclosed by six square sides or faces. A cubical foot is 12 inches square every way, of any solid substance. CUB-HOUSE, OR CUBBOOS. _See_ CABOOSE. CUBICULATÆ. Roman ships furnished with cabins. CUCKOLD'S-KNOT OR NECK. A knot by which a rope is secured to a spar--the two parts of the rope crossing each other, and seized together. CUDBEAR. (_See_ CORKIR.) A violet dye--archil, a test. CUDBERDUCE. The cuthbert-duck, a bird of the Farne Isles, off Northumberland. CUDDIC, CUDDY, OR CUDLE. All derived from cuttle-fish varieties of sepia used for baits. CUDDIE, OR CUDDIN. One of the many names for the coal-fish, a staple article of the coast of Scotland. The _Gadus carbonarius_ is taken nearly all the year round by fishing from the rocks, and by means of landing nets. If this fish be not delicate, it is at least nutritious, and as it contains much oil, it furnishes light as well as food. CUDDING. A northern name for the char. CUDDY. A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden. In the oceanic traders it is a cabin abaft, under the round-house or poop-deck, for the commander and his passengers. Also, the little cabin of a boat. CUDDY-LEGS. A name in the north for large herrings. CUIRASS. Armour or covering for the breast, anciently made of hide. CUIRASSIERS. Horse soldiers who wear the cuirass, a piece of defensive armour, covering the body from the neck to the waist. CUISSES. Armour to protect the thighs. CULAGIUM. An archaic law-term for the laying up of a ship in the dock to be repaired. CULCH. _See_ OYSTER-BED. CULLOCK. A species of bivalved mollusc on our northern shores, the _Tellina rhomboides_. CULMINATION, in nautical astronomy, is the transit or passage of any celestial body over the meridian of a place. CULRING. An old corruption of _culverin_. CULTELLUS. _See_ COUTEL.