Nippers.
Are small roapes (about a faddom and a halfe, or two faddom long) with a little Truck at one end (or some have only a wale-knot) the use whereof is to hold-off the Cabell from the maine-capstaine,
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Are small roapes (about a faddom and a halfe, or two faddom long) with a little Truck at one end (or some have only a wale-knot) the use whereof is to hold-off the Cabell from the maine-capstaine,
or the geere capstaine, when the Cabell is either so •…•…imy or so great, that they cannot straine it, to hold it off with their hands only.