HAWSER-LAID, or CABLE-LAID rope, is rope laid with nine strands against the sun. (See PLATE 5 and page 43.) HAZE. A term for punishing a man by keeping him unnecessarily at work upon disagreeable or difficult duty. HEAD. The work at the prow of a vessel. If it is a carved figure, it is called a _figure-head_; if simple carved work, bending over and out, a _billet-head_; and if bending in, like the head of a violin, a _fiddle-head_. Also, the upper end of a mast, called a _mast-head_. (See BY-THE-HEAD. See FAST.) HEAD-LEDGES. Thwartship pieces that frame the hatchways. HEAD-SAILS. A general name given to all sails that set forward of the fore-mast. HEART. A block of wood in the shape of a heart, for stays to reeve through. HEART-YARNS. The centre yarns of a strand. HEAVE SHORT. To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor. HEAVE-TO. To put a vessel in the position of lying-to. (See LIE-TO.) HEAVE IN STAYS. To go about in tacking. HEAVER. A short wooden bar, tapering at each end. Used as a purchase. HEEL. The after part of the keel. Also, the lower end of a mast or boom. Also, the lower end of the stern-post. _To heel_, is to lie over on one side. HEELING. The square part of the lower end of a mast, through which the fid-hole is made. HELM. The machinery by which a vessel is steered, including the rudder, tiller, wheel, &c. Applied more particularly, perhaps, to the tiller. HELM-PORT. The hole in the counter through which the rudder-head passes. HELM-PORT-TRANSOM. A piece of timber placed across the lower counter, inside, at the height of the helm-port, and bolted through every timber, for the security of that port. (See PLATE 3.) HIGH AND DRY. The situation of a vessel when she is aground, above water mark. HITCH. A peculiar manner of fastening ropes. (See PLATE 5 and page 48.) HOG. A flat, rough broom, used for scrubbing the bottom of a vessel. HOGGED. The state of a vessel when, by any strain, she is made to droop at each end, bringing her centre up. HOLD. The interior of a vessel, where the cargo is stowed. HOLD WATER. To stop the progress of a boat by keeping the oar-blades in the water. HOLY-STONE. A large stone, used for cleaning a ship's decks. HOME. The sheets of a sail are said to be _home_, when the clews are hauled chock out to the sheave-holes. An anchor _comes home_ when it is loosened from the ground and is hove in toward the vessel. HOOD. A covering for a companion hatch, skylight, &c. HOOD-ENDS, or HOODING-ENDS, or WHOODEN-ENDS. Those ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem or stern-post. HOOK-AND-BUTT. The scarfing, or laying the ends of timbers over each other. HORNS. The jaws of booms. Also, the ends of cross-trees. HORSE. (See FOOT-ROPE.) HOUNDS. Those projections at the mast-head serving as shoulders for the top or trestle-trees to rest upon.