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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Subject terms: Naval art and science -- Dictionaries -- English.
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To Dispert.

Disperting, is the finding out of the difference of the Dia∣metres of the Mettles, betwixt the breetch and the mouth of any peece of Ordnance, by which we know what allowance to give to the mouth of the Peece (being ever lesse then the breetch) that thereby we may make a just shot; there are divers wayes, but the plainest is the surest and best, which is, by putting in of a strawe, or small stick at the touch-hole, at the lower side of the concave or sillender of the Peece, and then apply it in the same manner to the mouth, and it will exactly shew the diffe∣rence of the thicknesse of the Mettle, at the breetch and mouth of the Peece.