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