Boat

Boat

Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.

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bar pilot

Boat; General boating

A bar pilot guides ships over the dangerous sandbars at the mouth of rivers and bays.

monkey's fist

Boat; General boating

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 ...

tacking

Boat; General boating

1. Zig-zagging so as to sail directly towards the wind (and for some rigs also away from it). 2. Going about (qv).

cheeks

Boat; General boating

1. Wooden blocks at the side of a spar. 2. The sides of a block or gun-carriage.

ahull

Boat; General boating

1. When the boat is lying broadside to the sea. 2. To ride out a storm with no sails and helm held to leeward.

waterway

Boat; General boating

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 ...