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When a ship hath been long untrymmed, so that grasse, or any filth be growne or got about her, she is foule: Also when any roape which we should hale, is hindred by an other, or tangled in it selfe (as Top-saile, Halliards, Tackle, Falls and the like may be) or any thing else so that it cannot run, we say the roape is foule, as the Sheates are fowle of the Ordnance; the Halliards, Clew-lines, or the like, are foule and so must be cleered before they can be made to run.