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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A Point.

The shatpnesse to any head-Land, is called the point of the Land: when they say, that two points are one in another, that is, they are so just in a right line from us, one betwixt the other, that we cannot see the one for the other; Also the Compasse is divided into 32. points (representing 32. winds) so that we call sailing by the Compasse, sailing upon a point: They use also to undoe the Stroud at the end of a Cabell (some 2. foot long) and so make Synnet: of the Roape-Yarne, and lay them one over another againe, making it lesse to∣wards the end, and so at the end, make them all fast with a peece of Marling, or the like. This is called pointing the Gabell. The use where of is to keepe the Cabell from farsling, but chiefly to see that none of the end be stolne off, and cut away.