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APPAREL | The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. | |
BOATSWAIN | An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. | |
LAZARETTE | Ship's space for storing sails | |
SLUG | A ship that sails slowly. | |
TOPSAIL | Part of an old ship's rigging | |
FURNITURE | The masts and rigging of a ship. | |
TOP-HAMPER | The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship. | |
YARDARM | Thirty-six inch limb used as part of ship’s rigging | |
UNRIG | To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. | |
STRIP | To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. | |
SHIP-RIGGED | Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. | |
HULL | The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. | |
SET | To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship. | |
RIGGER | One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship. | |
TACKLE | The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. | |
AFTERGUARD | The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. | |
TIMENOGUY | A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship. | |
PIRATE | An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas. | |
CORDAGE | Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes. | |
SQUARE-RIGGED | Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. | |
DRAW | To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. | |
SAIL | To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force. | |
RIG | The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
LANGREL | A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister. | |
FORGE | To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. |