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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Calme, and be Calm-ing.

Is, when at sea we have not any wind, and then we adde to it, these Epithetons, flat, dead, or starke-calme: A calme, is more troublesome to a sea-faring man, then a storme. If he have a strong ship, & sea-room enough. In some places, as in the Straights, when it is an extraordinary great storme, with much wind, and a wrought sea, on a suddaine there will be no wind, but a flat-calme, yet an-extraordinary billow which is wonderous troublesome and dan∣gerous, for the having no use of saile to keep her steddy on a side; the great sea, will make a ship rowle, so that unlesse she be a very fast ship in the water, she will be in danger to rowle her masts by the boord, or her selfe under water.