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a ball woven out of line used to provide heft to heave the line to another location. The monkey fist and other heaving-line knots were sometimes weighted with lead (easily available in the form of foil used to seal e.g. tea chests from dampness) although Clifford W. Ashley notes that there was a "definite sporting limit" to the weight thus added.
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1. Zig-zagging so as to sail directly towards the wind (and for some rigs also away from it). 2. Going about (qv).
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1. Wooden blocks at the side of a spar. 2. The sides of a block or gun-carriage.
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1. When the boat is lying broadside to the sea. 2. To ride out a storm with no sails and helm held to leeward.
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1. Waterway, a navigable body of water. 2. A strake of timber laid against the frames or bulwark stanchions at the margin of a laid wooden deck, usually about twice the thickness of the deck planking.
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1. To repair a mast or spar with a fillet of wood. 2. To secure an anchor on the side of the ship for sea (otherwise known as "catting".)
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1. Treating old sails with oil or wax to renew them. 2. A verbal reprimand.
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cat
1. To prepare an anchor, after raising it by lifting it with a tackle to the cat head, prior to securing (fishing) it alongside for sea. (An anchor raised to the cat head is said to be catted.) 2. The cat o' nine tails. 3. A cat-rigged boat or catboat.
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1. To make fast a line around a fitting, usually a cleat or belaying pin. 2. An order to halt a current activity or countermand an order prior to execution.
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1. The spar that holds the upper edge of a four-sided fore-and-aft mounted sail. 2. A hook on a long pole to haul fish in.
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