The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...
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The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...
Author
Manwayring, Henry, Sir, 1587-1653.
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London :: Printed by G. M. for John Bellamy ...,
1644.
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Naval art and science -- Dictionaries -- English.
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"The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51871.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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Farthelling-lines.
Are small lines which are made fast to all the top-sailes, top-gallant-sailes, and also the missen yard-armes, the missen hath but one, the other one, on either side; by these we farthell those sailes, but the top-sailes have not the bunt bound up to the yard, as the
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maine and fore-sailes have, but is laid on the top, and so bound fast to the head of the mast; this we call stowing the top-saile.
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