Shrowdes.
The Shrowdes are those Roapes which come from ei∣ther side of all the masts, the missen-maine-masts, and fore-mast-shrowdes, have at the lower end dead-men-eyes seased into them; and are set up taught by Lanniers, to the chaines, which have also dead-men-eyes in them: At the other end they are fastned over the head of the mast, the Pendants, fore-tackle and swifters being first put∣on under them: at this uppermost part they are sarved, for galling against the mast: The top-mast shrowdes, are in the same manner fa∣stned with dead-men-eyes and Lanniers to the puttockes, and the plates of Iron which belongs to them, and aloft over the head of the masts, the other ease the shrowdes, slack the shrowdes: that is when they are too stiffe set up: Set taught the shrowdes; set up the shrowdes; that is, make them stiffer: Some ships desire to have the shrowdes taught, some slack; The Lanniers are to set up the shrowdes, Vide Lanniers: The bolt-sprit hath no shrowdes.