The Buttuck.
Is the bredth of the ship, right-a-sterne from the tucke upwards: and therefore according as she is built, broad or nar∣row at the transom or laying out of her sterne, we say that the ship hath a broad or a narrow Buttock.
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Is the bredth of the ship, right-a-sterne from the tucke upwards: and therefore according as she is built, broad or nar∣row at the transom or laying out of her sterne, we say that the ship hath a broad or a narrow Buttock.