A Stretch.
They use this word, not as it is commonly, to straine a roape, but thus, when they goe to hoyse a yard, or hale the sheate, they say, stretch fore-ward the Hilliards, or the sheates: that is, deliver along
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They use this word, not as it is commonly, to straine a roape, but thus, when they goe to hoyse a yard, or hale the sheate, they say, stretch fore-ward the Hilliards, or the sheates: that is, deliver along
that part (which they must hale by) into the mens hands, that they may be ready to hoyse or hale.