DODMAN. A shell-fish with a hod-like lump. A sea-snail, otherwise called _hodmandod_. DOFF, TO. To put aside. DO FOR, TO. A double-barrelled expression, meaning alike to take care of or provide for an individual, or to ruin or kill him. DOG. The hammer of a fire-lock or pistol; that which holds the flint, called also _dog-head_. Also, a sort of iron hook or bar with a sharp fang at one end, so as to be easily driven into a piece of timber, and drag it along by means of a rope fastened to it, upon which a number of men can pull. _Dog_ is also an iron implement with a fang at each end, to be driven into two pieces of timber, to support and steady one of them while being dubbed, hewn, or sawn.--_Span-dogs._ Used to lift timber. A pair of dogs linked together, and being hooked at an extended angle, press home with greater strain. DOG-BITCH-THIMBLE. An excellent contrivance by which the topsail-sheet-block is prevented making the half cant or turn so frequently seen in the clue when the block is secured there. DOG-BOLT. A cap square bolt. DOG-DRAVE. A kind of sea-fish mentioned in early charters. DOG-FISH. A name commonly applied to several small species of the shark family. DOGG. A small silver coin of the West Indies, six of which make a bitt. Also, in meteorology, _see_ STUBB. DOGGED. A mode of attaching a rope to a spar or cable, in contradistinction to racking, by which slipping is prevented; half-hitched and end stopped back, is one mode. DOGGER. A Dutch smack of about 150 tons, navigated in the German Ocean. It is mostly equipped with a main and a mizen mast, and somewhat resembles a ketch or a galliot. It is principally used for fishing on the Dogger Bank. DOGGER-FISH. Fish bought out of the Dutch doggers. DOGGER-MEN. The seafaring fishermen belonging to doggers. DOGS. The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship. DOG'S-BODY. Dried pease boiled in a cloth. DOG-SHORES. Two long square blocks of timber, resting diagonally with their heads to the cleats. They are placed forward to support the bilge-ways on the ground-ways, thereby preventing the ship from starting off the slips while the keel-blocks are being taken out. DOG-SLEEP. The uncomfortable fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. DOG'S TAIL. A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear. DOG-STOPPER. Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger. DOG-TONGUE. A name assigned to a kind of sole. DOG-VANE. A small vane made of thread, cork, and feathers, or buntin, fastened on the end of a half-pike, and placed on the weather gunwale, so as to be readily seen, and show the direction of the wind. The term is also familiarly applied to a cockade.