_Anchor watch_, a small watch of one or two men, kept while in port. WATCH HO! WATCH! The cry of the man that heaves the deep-sea-lead. WATCH-TACKLE. (See page 54.) A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a hook. Used for various purposes about decks. WATER SAIL. A _save-all_, set under the swinging-boom. WATER-WAYS. Long pieces of timber, running fore and aft on both sides, connecting the deck with the vessel's sides. The _scuppers_ are made through them to let the water off. (See PLATE 3.) WEAR. (See WARE.) WEATHER. In the direction from which the wind blows. (See WINDWARD, LEE.) A ship carries a _weather helm_ when she tends to come up into the wind, requiring you to put the helm up. _Weather gage._ A vessel has the _weather gage_ of another when she is to windward of her. A _weatherly ship_, is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway. WEATHER-BITT. To take an additional turn with a cable round the windlass-end. WEATHER ROLL. The roll which a ship makes to windward. WEIGH. To lift up; as, to weigh an anchor or a mast. WHEEL. The instrument by which a ship is steered; being a barrel, (round which the tiller-ropes go,) and a wheel with spokes. WHIP. (See page 54.) A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block. _To whip_, is to hoist by a whip. Also, to secure the end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine. _Whip-upon-whip._ One whip applied to the fall of another. WINCH. A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with a wheel or crank at the end. A small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spunyarn. WINDLASS. The machine used in merchant vessels to weigh the anchor by. WIND-RODE. The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current. (See TIDE-RODE.) WING. That part of the hold or between-decks which is next the side. WINGERS. Casks stowed in the wings of a vessel. WING-AND-WING. The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her foresail hauled over on one side and her mainsail on the other. WITHE, or WYTHE. An iron instrument fitted on the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boom or mast is rigged out and secured. WOOLD. To wind a piece of rope round a spar, or other thing. WORK UP. To draw the yarns from old rigging and make them into spunyarn, foxes, sennit, &c. Also, a phrase for keeping a crew constantly at work upon needless matters, and in all weathers, and beyond their usual hours, for punishment. WORM. (See page 44.) To fill up between the lays of a rope with small stuff wound round spirally. Stuff so wound round is called _worming_. WRING. To bend or strain a mast by setting the rigging up too taut. WRING-BOLTS. Bolts that secure the planks to the timbers. WRING-STAVES. Strong pieces of plank used with the wring-bolts.