PARBUCKLE. To hoist or lower a spar or cask by single ropes passed round it. PARCEL. (See page 44.) To wind tarred canvass, (called _parcelling_,) round a rope. PARCELLING. (See PARCEL.) PARLIAMENT-HEEL. The situation of a vessel when she is careened. PARRAL. The rope by which a yard is confined to a mast at its centre. PART. To break a rope. PARTNERS. A frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump, &c. PAZAREE. A rope attached to the clew of the foresail and rove through a block on the swinging boom. Used for guying the clews out when before the wind. PAUNCH MAT. A thick mat, placed at the slings of a yard or elsewhere. PAWL. A short bar of iron, which prevents the capstan or windlass from turning back. _To pawl_, is to drop a pawl and secure the windlass or capstan. PAY-OFF. When a vessel's head falls off from the wind. _To pay._ To cover over with tar or pitch. _To pay out._ To slack up on a cable and let it run out. PEAK. The upper outer corner of a gaff-sail. PEAK. (See A-PEAK.) A _stay-peak_ is when the cable and fore stay form a line. A _short stay-peak_ is when the cable is too much in to form this line. PENDANT, or PENNANT. A long narrow piece of bunting, carried at the mast-head. _Broad pennant_, is a square piece, carried in the same way, in a commodore's vessel. _Pennant._ A rope to which a purchase is hooked. A long strap fitted at one end to a yard or mast-head, with a hook or block at the other end, for a brace to reeve through, or to hook a tackle to. PILLOW. A block which supports the inner end of the bowsprit. PIN. The axis on which a sheave turns. Also, a short piece of wood or iron to belay ropes to. PINK-STERN. A high, narrow stern. PINNACE. A boat, in size between the launch and a cutter. PINTLE. A metal bolt, used for hanging a rudder. PITCH. A resin taken from pine, and used for filling up the seams of a vessel. PLANKS. Thick, strong boards, used for covering the sides and decks of vessels. PLAT. A braid of foxes. (See FOX.) PLATE. (See CHAIN-PLATE.) PLUG. A piece of wood, fitted into a hole in a vessel or boat, so as to let in or keep out water. POINT. To take the end of a rope and work it over with knittles. (See page 51. See REEF-POINTS.) POLE. Applied to the highest mast of a ship, usually painted; as, _skysail pole_. POOP. A deck raised over the after part of the spar deck. A vessel is _pooped_ when the sea breaks over her stern. POPPETS. Perpendicular pieces of timber fixed to the fore-and-aft part of the bilge-ways in launching. PORT. Used instead of _larboard_. _To port the helm_, is to put it to the larboard. PORT, or PORT-HOLE. Holes in the side of a vessel, to point cannon out of. (See BRIDLE.) PORTOISE. The gunwale. The yards are _a-portoise_ when they rest on the gunwale. PORT-SILLS. (See SILLS.) PREVENTER. An additional rope or spar, used as a support. PRICK. A quantity of spunyarn or rope laid close up together.