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 ...
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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 June 18, 2024.
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A Hullock.
Is a small part of a saile, which is loosed and left o∣pen in a great storme, when we dare not have any more out; and is on∣ly used in the Missen-saile, when vve would keep the Ships head to the sea, with a little saile; making all up, excepting a little at the Missen-yard arme: or else when a Ship vvill not weather-coile, to lay her head the other vvay, we loose (for that is the terme) a hullock of our fore-saile, and so changing the helme to the weather-side, the Ship will fall off, and lay her head, vvhere her sterne lay before.
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