Cut-Water.
The Cut-water is the sharpenesse of the ship before,
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The Cut-water is the sharpenesse of the ship before,
which doth as it were, cut the water and divide it before it comes to the bowe, so that it may come by degrees, and not too suddainly to the bredth of the Ship, otherwise the ship would beate so full against the water, that she would make but little way: And therefore many times when a ship is to Bluffe, we put to a false stem, and as it were lengthen her for-ward-on, and this we call a Cut-water, which will not only make her saile better, but also make her keep a better wind and not to beate so much against a head-sea.