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This word is used in the same sence at sea, as otherwise we use the word stook, for generally, when we would have any roape slacker and not so hard strained, we say Ease it, (as ease the bowlings, sheates, &c.) only when the tack should be slackned; the proper terme is, let rise the tack, which is a very fit terme, in respect that the tack beng loosed, it rises up from the Chestrees unto which it was haled close.