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The Stem of the ship, is that great timber, which comes compassing from the keele (wherein it is skarffed) up before the fore∣castell, this it may be, is not all of one timber (as in great ships it can∣not) And this doth guide the rake of the ship, when two ships stand, Stem for Stem, they come right with their heads one against an other: To give a ship the Stem, that is to run right upon her with the Stem: to goe Stemming a-boord a ship; that is the same, as giving the ship the Stem.