GRIPE. The outside timber of the fore-foot, under water, fastened to the lower stem-piece. (See PLATE 3.) A vessel _gripes_ when she tends to come up into the wind. GRIPES. Bars of iron, with lanyards, rings and clews, by which a large boat is lashed to the ring-bolts of the deck. Those for a quarter-boat are made of long strips of matting, going round her and set taut by a lanyard. GROMMET. (See PLATE 5 and page 46.) A ring formed of rope, by laying round a single strand. GROUND TACKLE. General term for anchors, cables, warps, springs, &c.; everything used in securing a vessel at anchor. GROUND-TIER. The lowest tier of casks in a vessel's hold. GUESS-WARP, or GUESS-ROPE. A rope fastened to a vessel or wharf, and used to tow a boat by; or to haul it out to the swinging-boom-end, when in port. GUN-TACKLE PURCHASE. A purchase made by two single blocks. (See page 54.) GUNWALE. (Pronounced _gun-nel_.) The upper rail of a boat or vessel. GUY. A rope attaching to anything to steady it, and bear it one way and another in hoisting. GYBE. (Pronounced _jibe_.) To shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail. HAIL. To speak or call to another vessel, or to men in a different part of a ship. HALYARDS. Ropes or tackles used for hoisting and lowering yards, gaffs, and sails. HALF-HITCH. (See PLATE 5 and page 48.) HAMMOCK. A piece of canvass, hung at each end, in which seamen sleep. HAND. To _hand_ a sail is to _furl_ it. _Bear-a-hand_; make haste. _Lend-a-hand_; assist. _Hand-over-hand_; hauling rapidly on a rope, by putting one hand before the other alternately. HAND-LEAD. (See page 17.) A small lead, used for sounding in rivers and harbors. HANDSOMELY. Slowly, carefully. Used for an order, as, "Lower handsomely!" HANDSPIKE. A long wooden bar, used for heaving at the windlass. HANDY BILLY. A watch-tackle. HANKS. Rings or hoops of wood, rope, or iron, round a stay, and seized to the luff of a fore-and-aft sail. HARPINGS. The fore part of the wales, which encompass the bows of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem. (See PLATE 3.) HARPOON. A spear used for striking whales and other fish. HATCH, or HATCHWAY. An opening in the deck to afford a passage up and down. The coverings over these openings are also called _hatches_. _Hatch-bar_ is an iron bar going across the hatches to keep them down. HAUL. _Haul her wind_, said of a vessel when she comes up close upon the wind. HAWSE. The situation of the cables before a vessel's stem, when moored. Also, the distance upon the water a little in advance of the stem; as, a vessel sails _athwart the hawse_, or anchors _in the hawse_ of another. _Open hawse._ When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables. HAWSE-HOLE. The hole in the bows through which the cable runs. HAWSE-PIECES. Timbers through which the hawse-holes are cut. HAWSE-BLOCK. A block of wood fitted into a hawse-hole at sea. HAWSER. A large rope used for various purposes, as warping, for a spring, &c.