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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VEere.

To veere-out a roape, is to put it out by hand, or to let it run-out when you may stop it; (as veere more Cabell, that is, let more run-out:) veere, it is generally used to the letting-out of more roape to those roapes which are used without-boord, as to the boate-roape, log-line, or any roape whereby we towe any thing: but it is not used to any running-roape but only to the sheates: Veere more sheats (that is, put out) when the wind doth goe in and out, that is, sometimes to one point, sometimes to an other, and that suddenly, as in the stormes it will very much, they say the wind doth veere and hull.