DRAUGHT. The depth of water which a vessel requires to float her. DRAW. A sail _draws_ when it is filled by the wind. _To draw a jib_, is to shift it over the stay to leeward, when it is aback. DRIFTS. Those pieces in the sheer-draught where the rails are cut off. DRIVE. To scud before a gale, or to drift in a current. DRIVER. A spanker. DROP. The depth of a sail, from head to foot, amidships. DRUM-HEAD. The top of the capstan. DUB. To reduce the end of a timber. DUCK. A kind of cloth, lighter and finer than canvass; used for small sails. DUNNAGE. Loose wood or other matters, placed on the bottom of the hold, above the ballast, to stow cargo upon. EARING. A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed. EIKING. A piece of wood fitted to make good a deficiency in length. ELBOW. Two crosses in a hawse. (See page 89.) ESCUTCHEON. The part of a vessel's stern where her name is written. EVEN-KEEL. The situation of a vessel when she is so trimmed that she sits evenly upon the water, neither end being down more than the other. EUVROU. A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended. (See UVROU.) EYE. The circular part of a shroud or stay, where it goes over a mast. _Eye-bolt._ A long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel's deck or side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to. If there is a ring through this eye, it is called a _ring-bolt_. _An Eye-splice_ is a certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope. (See PLATE 5 and page 45.) _Eyelet-hole._ A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through. _The Eyes of a vessel._ A familiar phrase for the forward part. FACE-PIECES. Pieces of wood wrought on the fore part of the knee of the head. FACING. Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet. FAG. A rope is _fagged_ when the end is untwisted. FAIR-LEADER. A strip of board or plank, with holes in it, for running rigging to lead through. Also, a block or thimble used for the same purpose. FAKE. One of the circles or rings made in coiling a rope. FALL. That part of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. FALSE KEEL. Pieces of timber secured under the main keel of vessels. FANCY-LINE. A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul. Also, a line used for cross-hauling the lee topping-lift. FASHION-PIECES. The aftermost timbers, terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern. FAST. A rope by which a vessel is secured to a wharf. There are _bow_ or _head_, _breast_, _quarter_, and _stern_ fasts. FATHOM. Six feet. FEATHER. _To feather an oar_ in rowing, is to turn the blade horizontally with the top aft as it comes out of the water. FEATHER-EDGED. Planks which have one side thicker than another.