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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: Printed by G. M. for John Bellamy ...,; 1644.
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Gale.

When the wind doth not blow too hard, but reasonably, so that a ship may beare her top-sailes, a-tripp, we call it (according to the strength of it) either an easie, or loome-gale, which is, when it is little wind: a fresh, stiffe strong gale when it is much wind: Some∣times at sea, two ships being not farre asunder; if it be faire, smooth, gentle weather, and but little wind, one ship will have more wind then the other, and sometimes the one be flat, be calmed, the other have a little breath of wind, then they say, the ship which hath the wind, doth gale away from the other.