Naut. Bowsprit. …

Naut. The railing or bulwark of a ship's castle. …

(a) Companion, friend, comrade; (b) fellow, creature; (c) naut. designating various crew members or officers of a ship: the mate of a ship; a bosun's mate; ?also, a shipmate, sailor. …

Naut. In cpds.: ro bende, a rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard [cp. ro-bond n.]; ro line (rop), ?a brace for swinging the yards horizontally; ?a footrope; ?a gasket of some kind. …

Naut. A sheet. …

Naut. Some kind of pole or spar. …

Naut. Some sort of beam, evidently slabbed; shelt-bem nail. …

(a) Naut. A timber used at the stem of a ship; stampne lok (lokere), ?a timber of fastening device used to secure the stem of a ship; stampne pece, a piece of timber that forms the stem; (b) the stem……

(a) Stubborn; (b) naut. not deviating from course, steady on course; (c) as surname; also, ?in a name given to a horse. …

(a) The main body or stem of a tree; also fig.; (b) naut. either the stem- or stern-post of a ship; stem lok, = stampne-lok [s.v. stampne n. (a)]; stem nekke, a curved part of the stem; stem pece, one……

(a) An upright piece of timber used as support in a wall, partition, etc. [quots. ?c1475 and a1500 may belong to sense 4]; stoth nail, nails of some kind used in fastening such timbers; (b) fig. a……

(a) A loop or strap on a horse's harness; ?also, some kind of strap for a cart; (b) naut. a loop of rope, hide, or metal used to connect blocks and yards with the ropes in a ship's rigging, a strop……

(a) A clasp or similar fastener; (b) a nail of some kind;— ?also coll. [quot. c1390], perh. with play on sense (a); tak nail. …

(a) Naut. The rigging of a ship; also, a line used in the rigging of a ship; lof takel, a spar holding out and down the windward tack of a square sail while going into the wind; (b) a fishing line or……

(a) A track, trace; (b) naut. ?a roadstead. …

Naut. To let out or slacken (a rope). …

Naut. Some kind of rope used aboard a sailing vessel, ?a warp rope. …

Naut. A piece of caulking material placed between the lapstrakes while the ship is under construction;—also coll. …

(a) An apparatus for hoisting or hauling, a winch, windlass [cp. windas n.]; naut. middel wind, ?a central garnet used in brailing up the sail (b) a wooden reel from which a hank or thread of yarn……

Naut. (a) Rope or canvas for sailmaking, binding of sails, etc.; a piece of rope or canvas for these uses; ?also, one of the strengthening bands arranged as a lattice on a sail; wining rop (b) pl.……