Is one Round or Circle of a Cable or Hawser coyled up out of the Way.
That Part of the Rope of a Tackle which is hauled upon, is called a Fall. Also when a Ship is under Sail, and keeps not so near the Wind as she should do, they say, She Falls off: Or when a Ship is not flush, but hath riseings of some Parts of her Decks more than others, it is called Falls.
Are two Compassing Pieces of Timber, into them are fixed on each Side, the Transom.
A Line of small Rope cut six Feet long, and used for measuring the Length of Cables and Cordage.
For defending or saving a Boat from being staved against the Rocks, Shore, or Ships Sides.
Signifies any Pieces of Junk or old Cable, hung over the Ship's Sides, to keep others from rubbing against her. Boats have also the same.—Those made of Iron are for the Hearth in the Cook-Room.
Are used to splice or fasten Ropes together, and are made tapering at one End; and so are those made of Wood, which are used for spliceing Cables. So there is also one goes through the Heel of the Top-mast, which bears upon the Chess-trees, and are called
Are for wheting Saws, and used by the Smiths in their Works.
Are Pieces of Timber put upon the Masts and Yards if sprung, or for strengthening them, least they should fail in Stress of Weather.
A Sett which consists of Nets, Lines, Hooks, _&c._ is allowed to each Ship which goes to the _East_ and _West Indies_, _Virginia_, _Guinea_, _New England_, _New York_, _St. Helena_, and the _Cape_, and _South Carolina_.
Hangs at the End of the Davit, by the Strap of the Block, to which the Fish Hook is spliced, by which means the Flook of the Anchor is hawled up to the Ship's Bow or Chanwaal.
When a Ship is a little housing in, near the Water, and the upper Work hangs over, or is broader aloft.
Is a Midship, and as many Timbers Afore and Abaft, that has no more riseing than the Midship Flatt, are all called Flatts.
Altering or removing a dead Eye in the Low or Top-mast Shrouds and Backstays, either to lengthen or shorten them, is called Flitting.
Is an Instrument used by the Smiths to make their Work smooth, instead of a File.
Are those Timbers lying transverse to the Keel, being bolted through it; they are the first laid in the Order of building, and where the Floor sweep begins, there the Streight one Ends; and when there is a great many Flatts, that has little or no rising, than we say, She carries her Floor a great Way Fore and Aft. And strictly taken, is so much only of her Bottom as she rests upon, when lying a-ground.