Nautisk ordbok

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	Zulu time				GMT- Greenwich Meridian Time, also known as Universal Time
	Zulu				A fishing vessel from the north-east of scotland
	Zenith				In nautical astronomy a point imediately above an observer, coresspond to a straight line from the centre of the earth through the observer to the zenith
	Zebeck				A small three-masted Mediterranean vessel with lanteen and some square sails
	Yoke				A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat`s rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered
	Yeoman				A officer under the boatswain employed in a vessel of war to take charge of a storeroom as, boatswain`s yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of rigging
	Yellow jack				Term used for yellow fever, used for quarantine flag which is coloured yellow, a naval pensioner in Greenwich Hospital who is too fond of his liquor and wore a yellow colour coat to denote this
	Yellow admiral				a post captain is posted to rear admiral on retirement without serving in that rank
	Yawl boat				Smaller powered boat used to provide steerageway when not under sail
	Yawl				A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post
	Yawing				The motion of a ship when she deviates from to the right or left
	Yaw				To swing off course, as when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea
	Yaw				The motion of a vessel when she goes off from her course
	Yarn				See Rope-Yarn
	Yardarm and yardarm				The situation of two vessels, lying alongside one another, so near that their yardarms cross or touch
	Yardarm				The extremities of a yard
	Yard				A long piece of timber or spar, tapering slightly toward the ends, and hung by the centre to a mast, to spread the square sails upon
	Yankee				A foresail flying above and forward of thee jib, usually seen on bowsprit vessels
	Yacht	Yate	Jacht	Yacht	A vessel of pleasure or state
	Xebec				See Zebec
	Wring-staves				Strong pieces of plank used with the wring-bolts
	Wring-bolts				Bolts that secure the planks to the timbers
	Wring				To bend or strain a mast by setting the rigging up too taut
	Worm				Worm and parcel with the lay, turn and serve the other way, organic standing rigging was wormed, parcelled, and served in areas under great stress or potential friction: bobstays, stay and shroud eyes, pendants, sometimes the entire forward shroud
	Work up				To draw the yarns from old rigging and make them into spunyarn, foxes, sennit, also, a phrase for keeping a crew constantly at work upon needless matters, and in all weathers, and beyond their usual hours, for punishment
	Woold				To wind a piece of rope round a spar, or other thing
	Withe - wythe				An iron instrument fitted on the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boom or mast is rigged out and secured
	Wingers				Casks stowed in the wings of a vessel
	Wing-and-wing				The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her foresail hauled over on one side and her mainsail on the other
	Wing				That part of the hold or between-decks which is next the side
	Windward				Toward the direction from which the wind is coming, opposite of leeward
	Windlass				The machine used in merchant vessels to weigh the anchor by
	Windjammer				A square-rigged commercial sailing ship used as an insulting term by steamboat sailors
	Windjammer				Large ship powered by wind and sails, used for pleasure cruising
	Wind-rode				The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current, see Tide-Rode
	Winch				A device used to increase hauling power when raising or trimming sails
	Winch				A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with a wheel or crank at the end, a small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spunyarn
	Widow-maker				A term for the bowsprit (many sailors lost their lives falling off the bowsprit while tending sails)
	Whip				A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block, to whip, is to hoist by a whip, also to secure the end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine, Whip-upon-whip, one whip applied to the fall of another
	Wheel				device used for steering a boat
	Wharf				A manmade structure bonding the edge of a dock and built along or at an angle to the shoreline, used for loading, unloading, or tying up vessels
	Weigh - to haul up				Weigh the anchor
	Weather-bitt				To take an additional turn with a cable round the windlass-end
	Weather roll				The roll, which a ship makes to windward
	Weather gage				A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her
	Weather beaten				Shattered by a storm, or disabled in battle
	Weather				Is known to be the particular state of the air with regard to the degree of the wind, to heat or cold, or to driness and moisture
	Weather				Is also used as an adjective, applied by mariners to every thing lying to windward of a particular situation, thus a ship is laid to have the weather-gage of another, when the is further to-windward, thus also when a ship under sail presents eithe
	Wear				See Ware
	Way				Movement of a vessel through the water, such as headway, sternway, or leeway
	Way				Of a ship, the course or progress which the makes on the water under sail, thus when she begins her motion, she is said to be under way and when that motion increases, she is said to have fresh way through the water, hence also she is said to have
	Waterways				Long pieces of timber, running fore and aft on both sides, connecting the deck with the vessel`s sides, the scuppers are made through them to let the water off
	Waterline				A line painted on a hull which shows the point to which a boat sinks when it is properly trimmed
	Water-boards - weather-boards				To keep out the waves or spray of the sea
	Water spout				An extraordinary and dangerous meteor, consisting of a large mass of water, collected into a sort of column by the force of a whirlwind, and moved with rapidity along the surface of the sea
	Water shot				See Mooring
	Water sail				A save-all, set under the swinging-boom
	Water logged				The state of a ship when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, by leaking, she has become heavy and inactive upon the sea, so as to yield without resistance to the efforts of every wave rushing over her decks, as in this dangerous
	Water line				The line made by the water`s edge when a ship has her full proportion of stores, and crew on board
	Water boune				The state of a ship, with regard to the water surrounding her bottom, when there is barely a sufficient depth of it to float her off from the ground, particularly when she had for some time rested thereon
	Watch-tackle				A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a hook, used for various purposes about decks
	Watch-and-watch				The arrangement by which the watches are alternated every other four hours, in distinction from keeping all hands during one or more watches
	Watch ho! Watch!				The cry of the man that heaves the deep-sea-lead
	Watch				A division of time on board ship, there are seven watches in a day, reckoning from 12 M round through the 24 hours, five of them being of four hours each, and the two others, called dog watches, of two hours each, viz, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8
	Wash-boards				Light pieces of board placed above the gunwale of a boat
	Warp				To move a vessel from one place to another by means of a rope made fast to some fixed object, or to a kedge, a warp is a rope used for warping, if the warp is bent to a kedge, which is let go, and the vessel is hove ahead by the capstan or windlas
	Ware - wear				To turn a vessel round, so that, from having the wind on one side, you bring it upon the other, carrying her stern round by the wind, in tacking, the same result is produced by carrying a vessel`s head round by the wind
	Ward-room				The room in a vessel of war in which the commissioned officers live
	Walt				An obsolete or spurious term signifying crank
	Wall-sided				A vessel is wall-sided when her sides run up perpendicularly from the bends, in opposition to tumbling home or flaring out
	Wall				A knot put on the end of a rope
	Wales				Strong planks in a vessel`s sides, running her whole length fore and aft
	Wale-reared				An obselete phrase, implying wall-sided
	Wake				Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind when moving across the waters
	Wake				Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind it, when moving thru the water
	Waisters				Green hands, or broken-down seamen, placed in the waist of a man-of-war
	Waist				That part of the upper deck between the quarterdeck and forecastle
	Waft				Signal displayed from the stern of a ship for some particular purpose, by hoisting the ensign, furled up together into a long roll, to the head of its staff, it is particularly used to summon the boats off from the shore to the ship whereto they b
	Wad				Quantity of old rope-yarns, rolled firmly together into the form of a ball, and used to confine the shot or shell, together with its charge of powder, in the breech of a piece of artillery
	Viol - voyal				A larger messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan, also the block through which the messenger passes
	Vhf radio				A very high frequency electronic communications and direction finding system
	Vhf				very high frequency radio
	Veer				Said of the wind when it changes, also to slack a cable and let it run out, see Pay, to veer and haul, is to haul and slack alternately on a rope, as in warping, until the vessel or boat gets headway
	Vast (written `vast)				See Avast
	Variation				The angular difference between the magnetic meridian and the geographic meridian at a particular location
	Vang				A rope leading from the peak of the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail to the rail on each side, and used for steadying the gaff
	Vane				A small flag worn at each mast head to show wind direction
	V-bottom				A hull with the bottom section in the shape of a V
	V-berth				usually the forward berth of the boat, located in the bow
	Uvrou				See Euvrou
	Unship				See Ship
	Unmoor				To heave up one anchor so that the vessel may ride at a single anchor, see Moor
	Union-down				The situation of a flag when it is hoisted upside down, bringing the union down instead of up, used as a signal of distress
	Union jack				A small flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted at the bowsprit-cap
	Union				The upper inner corner of an ensign, the rest of the flag is called the fly, the union of the US ensign is a blue field with white stars, and the fly is composed of alternate white and red stripes
	Underway				Vessel in motion, when not moored, at anchor, or aground
	Underway				Vessel in motion, when not moored, at anchor, or aground
	Under the red				Jack Pirates
	Unbend				To cast off or untie, see Bend
	Tye				A rope connected with a yard, to the other end of which a tackle is attached for hoisting
	Turnbuckle				A threaded, adjustable rigging fitting, used for stays, lifelines, and sometimes other rigging
	Turn up!				The order given to send the men up from between decks
	Turn				Passing a rope once or twice round a pin or kevel, to keep it fast, also two crosses in a cable
	Tumbling home				Said of a ship`s sides when they fall in above the bends, the opposite of wall-sided
	Tumble home				Refers to a cabin or hull with a width that becomes narrower as height increases
	Trysail				A fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, and hoisting on a small mast abaft the lower mast, called a trysail-mast, this name is generally confined to the sail so carried at the mainmast of a full-rigged brig, those carried at the foremast an
	Truss				The rope by which the centre of a lower yard is kept in toward the mast
	Trunnions				The arms on each side of a cannon by which it rests upon the carriage, and on which, as an axis, it is elevated or depressed
	True wind				The actual direction from which the wind is blowing
	True north pole				The north end of the earths axis and also called North Geographic Pole, the direction indicated by 000? (or 360?) on the true compass rose
	Truck				A circular piece of wood, placed at the head of the highest mast on a ship, it has small holes or sheaves in it for signal halyards to be rove through, also the wheel of a gun-carriage
	Tripping line				A line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down
	Tripline				A line fast to the crown of an anchor by means of which it can be hauled out when dug too deeply or fouled, a similar line used on a sea anchor to bring it aboard
	Trip				To raise an anchor clear of the bottom
	Trimaran				A boat with three hulls
	Trim				Fore and aft balance of a boat
	Trim				The condition of a vessel, with reference to her cargo and ballast, a vessel is trimmed by the head or by the stern, in ballast trim, is when she has only ballast on board, also, to arrange the sails by the braces with reference to the wind
	Trick				The time allotted to a man to stand at the helm
	Trice				To haul up by means of a rope
	Triatic stay				A rope secured at each end to the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced into its bight, to hook the stay tackles to
	Trestle-trees				Two strong pieces of timber, placed horizontally and fore-and-aft on opposite sides of a mast-head, to support the cross-trees and top, and for the fid of the mast above to rest upon
	Trend				The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill
	Treenails - trunnels				Long wooden pins, used for nailing a plank to a timber
	Traverses				These are the ribs or frames of the ship, and when placed in position, give the principal shape or contour, Transverses are not all the same distance apart amidships
	Traveller				An iron ring, fitted so as to slip up and down a rope
	Transom-knees				Knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers
	Transom				The stern cross-section of a square-sterned boat, any transverse beams secured to the sternpost
	Transom				the planking that forms the stern and closes off the sides
	Train-tackle				The tackle used for running guns in and out
	Tow				To draw a vessel along by means of a rope
	Touch				A sail is said to touch, when the wind strikes the leech so as to shake it a little, Luff and touch her! The order to bring the vessel up and see how near she will go to the wind
	Toss				To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in the boat, with its blade forward
	Topsides				The sides of a vessel between the waterline and the deck, sometimes referring to onto or above the deck
	Topsail schooner				A schooner with a square rigged sail on forward mast
	Topsail				The sail above the lowermost sail on a square-rigged ship, also the sail set above and sometimes on the gaff in a fore-and-aft rigged ship
	Topsail				The second sail above the deck
	Topping lift				A line or wire for lifting the boom
	Topmast				A second spar carried at the top of the fore or main mast, used to fly more sail
	Topgallantsail				The third sail above the deck
	Topgallant mast				The third mast above the deck
	Topgallant				Relating to the part next above the topmast and below the royal mast
	Top-rope				The rope used for sending topmasts up and down
	Top-lining				A lining on the after part of sails, to prevent them from chafing against the top-rim
	Top-light				A signal lantern carried in the top
	Top-block				A large ironbound block, hooked into a bolt under the lower cap, and used for the top-rope to reeve throug
	Top timbers				The highest timbers on a vessel`s side, being above the futtocks
	Top				A platform, placed over the head of a lower mast, resting on the trestletrees, to spread the rigging, and for the convenience of men aloft, to top up a yard or boom, is to raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift
	Toggle				A pin placed through the bight or eye of a rope, block-strap, or bolt, to keep it in its place, or to put the bight or eye of another rope upon, and thus to secure them both together
	Toe rail				A small rail around the deck of a boat, the toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks
	To weather				To sail to windward of some ship, bank, or head-land
	To turn in or turn out				Nautical terms for going to rest in a berth or hammock, and getting up from them
	To steer small				To keep a vessel on course with only small movements of the steering gear
	To steer large				The opposite to steer small
	To shore				To prop up
	To scuttle				To cut or bore holes in a vessel to make her sink
	To sculll				To impel a boat by one oar at the stern
	To purchase				The anchor, is to loosen it out of the ground
	To lay aboard				To sail alongside an enemy vessel with the intention of boarding
	To heel				To lie over on one side
	To draw a jib				To shift it over the stay to leeward, when it is aback
	To counter-brace yards				To brace the head-yards one way and the after-yards another
	To come up a rope or tackle				To slack it off
	To clew up				To haul up the clew of a sail
	To break ground				To lift the anchor from the bottom
	To break bulk				To begin to unload
	To break shear				When a vessel, at anchor, in tending, is forced the wrong way by the wind or current, so that she does not lie so well for keeping herself clear of her anchor
	To brace up				To lay the yard fore fore-and-aft
	To brace to				To brace the head yards a little aback, in tacking or wearing
	To brace aback				See Aback
	To brace a yard				To turn it about horizontally
	To bend a sail				To make it fast to the yard
	To bend a cable				To make it fast to the anchor
	To bear-a-hand				To make haste
	To bear up				To put the helm up, keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to leeward
	To bear down upon a vessel				To approach her from the windward
	To bear away				The same as to bear up, being applied to the vessel instead of to the tiller
	To back and fill				Is alternately to back and fill the sails
	To back a sail				Is throw it aback
	To brace in				To lay it nearer square
	Timenoguy				A rope carried taut between different parts of the vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul, in working ship
	Timber heads				The ends of the timbers that come above the decks, used for belaying hawsers and large ropes
	Timber				A general term for all large pieces of wood used in shipbuilding, also more particularly, long pieces of wood in a curved form, bending outward, and running from the keel up, on each side, forming the ribs of a vessel, the keel, stem, sternposts a
	Tiller-ropes				Ropes leading from the tiller-head round the barrel of the wheel, by which a vessel is steered
	Tiller				A bar or handle for turning a boats rudder or an outboard motor
	Tiller				A bar of wood or iron, put into the head of the rudder, by which the rudder is moved
	Tier				A range of casks, also the range of the fakes of a cable or hawser, the cable tier is the place in a hold or between decks where the cables are stowed
	Tide-rode				The situation of a vessel, at anchor, when she swings by the force of the tide, in opposition to wind-rode
	Tide				The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans
	Tide				To tide up or down a river or harbor, is to work up or down with a fair tide and head wind or calm, coming to anchor when the tide turns
	Thwartships				See Athwartships
	Thwarts				The seats going across a boat, upon which the oarsmen sit
	Thwart				A seat or brace running laterally across a boat, also a rowers seat extending across the boat
	Thus				See Dyce
	Thrum				To stick short strands of yarn through a mat or piece of canvass, to make a rough surface
	Throat				The inner end of a gaff, where it widens and hollows in to fit the mast, see Jaws, also the hollow part of a knee
	Thole pins				Pins in the gunwale of a boat, between which an oar rests when pulling, instead of a rowlock
	Thimble				An iron ring, having its rim concaves on the outside for a rope or strap to fit snugly round
	Thick-and-thin block				A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blocks
	The throat brails				Halyards, are those that hoist or haul up the gaff or sail near the throat, also the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank
	The eyes of a vessel				A familiar phrase for the forward part
	The bearings of a vessel				The widest part of her below the plank-shear, that part of her hull, which is on the waterline when she is at anchor, and in her proper trim
	Tenon				The heel of a mast, made to fit into the step
	Tend				To watch a vessel at anchor at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cables
	Tell tale				A compass hanging from the beams of the cabin, which may know the heading of a vessel at any time, also an instrument connected with the barrel of the wheel, and traversing so that the officer may see the position of the tiller
	Taut				Tight
	Taunt				High or tall, commonly applied to a vessel`s masts, all-a-taunt-o, said of a vessel when she has all her light and tall masts and spars aloft
	Tarpaulin				A piece of canvass, covered with tar, used for covering hatches, boats, etc, also the name commonly given to a sailor`s hat when made of tarred or painted cloth
	Tar				A liquid gum, taken from pine and fir trees, and used for caulking, and to put upon yarns in rope-making, and upon standing rigging, to protect it from the weather
	Tank				An iron vessel placed in the hold to contain the vessel`s water
	Tampion - tompion				Meaning a plug for a gun-muzzle dates from about 1480, Originally, it referred to a piece of cloth, used as a stopper
	Tail-tackle				A watch-tackle
	Tail on! - tally on!				An order given to take hold of a rope and pull
	Tail				A rope spliced into the end of a block and used for making it fast to rigging or spars, such a block is called a tail-block, a ship is said to tail up or down stream, when at anchor, according as her stern swings up or down with the tide in op
	Taffrail log				A propeller drawn through the water that operates a meter on the boat registering the speed and distance sailed
	Taffrail - tafferel				The rail round a ship`s stern
	Tacks aboard				To brace the yards around for sailing close hauled
	Tackle				A combination of blocks and line used to increase mechanical advantage
	Tackle				(Pronounced tay-cle), a purchase, formed by a rope rove through one or more blocks
	Tack				To put a ship about, so that from having the wind on one side, you bring it round on the other by the way of her head, the opposite of wearing
	Tack				A vessel is on the starboard tack, or has her starboard tacks on board, when she has the wind on her starboard side
	Tack				The rope or tackle by which the weather clew of a course is hauled forward and down to the deck
	Tack				The lower forward corner of the sail
	Tack				The tack of a fore-and-aft sail is the rope that keeps down the lower forward clew and of a studdingsail, the lower outer clew, the tack of the lower studdingsail is called the outhaul, also that part of a sail in which the tack is attached
	Tabling				Letting one beam-piece into another, see Scarfing, also the broad hem on the borders of sails, to which the bolt-rope is sewed
	Syphering				Lapping the edges of planks over each other for a bulkhead
	Swivel				A long link of iron, used in chain cables, made so as to turn upon an axis and keep the turns out of a chain
	Swig				A term used by sailors for the mode of hauling off upon the bight of a rope when its lower end is fast
	Swifter				The forward shroud to a lower-mast, also ropes used to confine the capstan bars to their places when shipped
	Swift				To bring two shrouds or stays close together by ropes
	Sweep				To drag the bottom for an anchor, also large oars used in small vessels to force them ahead
	Swamp				To fill with water, but not settle to the bottom
	Swab				A mop, formed of old rope, used for cleaning and drying decks
	Surge ho!				The notice given when a cable is to be surged
	Surge				A large, swelling wave, to surge a rope or cable is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan
	Surf				The breaking of the sea upon the shore
	Supporters				The knee-timbers under the catheads
	Sued - sewed				The condition of a ship when she is high and dry on shore, if the water leaves her two feet, she sues, or is sued, two feet
	Studdingsails				Light sails set outside the square sails, on booms rigged out for that purpose, they are only carried with a fair wind and in moderate weather
	Strike				To lower a sail or colors
	Stretchers				Pieces of wood placed across a boat`s bottom, inside, for the oarsmen to press their feet against, in rowing, also cross pieces placed between a boat`s sides to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped
	Stream				The stream anchor is one used for warping and sometimes as a lighter anchor to moor by, with a hawser, it is smaller than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, to stream a buoy, is to drop it into the water
	Streak - strake				A range of planks running fore-and-aft on a vessel`s side
	Strap				A piece of rope spliced rounds a block to keep its parts well together, some blocks have iron straps, in which case they are called iron bound
	Strand				A number of rope-yarns twisted together, three, four or nine strands twisted together form a rope, a rope is stranded when one of its strands is parted or broken by chafing or by a strain, a vessel is stranded when she is driven on shore
	Stowed in bulk				When goods are stowed loose, instead of being stowed in casks or bags, see Break bulk
	Stow				To pack or store away, especially to pack in an orderly, compact manner
	Stopper bolts				Ringbolts to which the deck stoppers are secured
	Stopper				A stout rope with a knot at one end, and sometimes a hook at the other, used for various purposes about decks as, making fast a cable, so as to overhaul, see Cat Stopper, Deck Stopper
	Stop				A fastening of small stuff, also small projections on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast, at the upper parts of the hounds
	Stools				Small channels for the deadeyes of the backstays
	Stocks				The frame upon which a vessel is built
	Stock				A beam of wood, or a bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank of an anchor, at right angles with the arms, an iron stock usually goes with a key, and unships
	Stirrups				Ropes with thimbles at their ends, through which the footropes are rove, and by which they are kept up toward the yards
	Stiff				The quality of a vessel, which enables it to carry a great deal of sail without lying over-much on her side, the opposite to crank
	Sternpost				The aftermost timber in a ship, reaching from the after end of the keel to the deck, the stem and sternpost are the two extremes of a vessel`s frame
	Stern-way				The movement by which a ship retreats, or falls backward, with her stern foremost
	Stern-frame				The frame composed of the sternpost transom and the fashion-pieces
	Stern-board				When a vessel goes stern foremost
	Stern-board				The motion of a vessel when going sternforemost
	Stern sheets				The after part of a boat, abaft the rowers, where the passengers sit
	Stern line				A docking line leading away from the stern
	Stern				The after part (back) of the boat
	Stern				After end of a vessel
	Stern			Heck	The after end of a vessel, see By the stern
	Stern				The rear section of the boat
	Step				A block of wood secured to the keel, into which the heel of the mast is placed, to step a mast is to put it in its step
	Stemson				A piece of compass-timber, fixed on the after part of the apron inside, the lower end is scarfed into the keelson, and receives the scarf of the stem, through which it is bolted
	Stem				The timber at the very front of the bow
	Stem				A piece of timber reaching from the forward end of the keel, to which it is scarfed, up to the bowsprit, and to which the two sides of the vessel are united
	Steeve				A bowsprit steeves more or less, according as it is raised more or less from the horizontal, the steeve is the angle it makes with the horizon, also, a long, heavy spar, with a place to fit a block at one end, and used in stowing certain kinds of
	Steerage				That part of the between-decks which is just forward of the cabin
	Steer				To control the direction of a vessel via the steering gear
	Steady!				An order to keep the helm as it is
	Staysail				A sail, which hoists upon a stay
	Stays				Large ropes, used to support masts, and leading from the head of some mast down to some other mast, or to some part of the vessel, those, which lead forward, are called fore-and-aft stays and those which lead down to the vessel`s sides, backstays,
	Stay sail				any sail attached to a stay
	Stay				A line or wire from the mast to the bow or stern of a ship, for support of the mast (fore, back, running, and triadic stays)
	Stay				To tack a vessel, or put her about, so that the wind, from being on one side, is brought upon the other, round the vessel`s head, see Tack, Wear, to stay a mast, is to incline it forward or aft, or to one side or the other, by the stays and backst
	Staterooms				Private cabins in a ship
	Start				To start a cask, is to open it
	Starboard				The right side of a boat when looking forward
	Starboard				Right side of the ship when facing forward
	Starboard				The right side of a vessel, looking forward
	Starboard				Right side of the vessel when facing forward
	Star bowlines				The familiar term for the men in the starboard watch
	Standing rigging				Shrouds and stays that secure the yards and mast in place
	Standing rigging				That part of a vessel`s rigging, which is made fast and not, hauled upon, see Running
	Standing part				That part of a line which is made fast, the main part of a line as distinguished from the bight and the end
	Standing				The standing part of a rope is that part which is fast, in opposition to the part that is hauled upon or the main part, in opposition to the end, the standing part of a tackle is that part which is made fast to the blocks and between that and the
	Standard				An inverted knee, placed above the deck instead of beneath it as, bill-standard
	Stand-on vessel				That vessel which continues its course in the same direction at the same speed during a crossing or overtaking situation, unless a collision appears imminent (Was formerly called the privileged vessel)
	Stand by!				An order to be prepared
	Stanchions				Upright posts of wood or iron, placed so as to support the beams of a vessel, also upright pieces of timber, placed at intervals along the sides of a vessel, to support the bulwarks and rail, and reaching down to the bends, by the side of the timb
	Staff				A pole or mast, used to hoist flags upon
	Stabber				A Pricker
	Square-sail				Is the oldest type of sail, its is a square or rectangular sail held horizontal by a yard
	Square-rigger				Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal beems called yards
	Square rig				A ship carrying square sails
	Square knot				A knot used to join two lines of similar size, also called a reef knot
	Square knot				Used for tying two ropes together
	Square				Yards are squared when they are horizontal and at right angles with the keel, squaring by the lifts makes them horizontal and by the braces, makes them at right angles with the vessel`s line, also the proper term for the length of yards, a vessel
	Squall				A sudden, violent wind often accompanied by rain
	Squall				A sudden violent blast of wind
	Spurs				Pieces of timber fixed on the bilge-ways, their upper ends being bolted to the vessel`s sides above the water, also curved pieces of timber, serving as half beams, to support the decks where whole beams cannot be placed
	Spurling line				A line communicating between the tiller and tell-tale
	Spur-shoes				Large pieces of timber that come abaft the pump-well
	Spunyarn				A cord formed by twisting together two or three rope-yarns
	Sprit-sail-yard				A yard lashed across the bowsprit or knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib and flying jib-boom, there was formerly a sail bent to it called a sprit-sail
	Sprit				A small boom or gaff, used with some sails in small boats, the lower end rests in a becket or snotter by the foot of the mast, and the other end spreadsß and raises the outer upper corner of the sail, crossing it diagonally, a sail so rigged in a
	Spring-stay				A preventer-