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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Naval art and science -- Dictionaries -- English.
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Shanck-painter.

Is a short chaine, fastned under the fore-mast-shrowdes,

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with a bolt, to the ship-side, and at the other end hath a roape: upon the chaine doth rest the whole waighth of the after-part of the Anchor, when it lies by the ships-side, and the roape by which it is haled-up, is made fast about a timber-head, this is seldom, or not at all used at sea, but in a Harbour, or a Roade.

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