An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour:, Band 1W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... ANCHOR , the principal are the sheet anchor , the best bower and the fmall bower , fo called from , their fituation in the fhip's bows . The smaller anchors , are the ftream anchor , the kedge anchor , and the grappling . AWNING , a ...
... ANCHOR , the principal are the sheet anchor , the best bower and the fmall bower , fo called from , their fituation in the fhip's bows . The smaller anchors , are the ftream anchor , the kedge anchor , and the grappling . AWNING , a ...
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... anchor , to determine the place where the anchor is fituated . C. CABLE's - length , a hundred and twenty - fathom . CAP , a ftrong , thick block of wood , ufed to confine two mafts to- gether , when the one is erected at the head of ...
... anchor , to determine the place where the anchor is fituated . C. CABLE's - length , a hundred and twenty - fathom . CAP , a ftrong , thick block of wood , ufed to confine two mafts to- gether , when the one is erected at the head of ...
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... anchor . To CLEW , or CLUE - UP , to trufs the fails up to the yards by tackles faftened to their lower corners , called their clues . CLOSE upon a wind , or CLOSE - HAULED , the general arrangement or trim of a fhip's fails , when the ...
... anchor . To CLEW , or CLUE - UP , to trufs the fails up to the yards by tackles faftened to their lower corners , called their clues . CLOSE upon a wind , or CLOSE - HAULED , the general arrangement or trim of a fhip's fails , when the ...
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... anchor , fitted with four or five flukes or claws , commonly used to ride a boat or other fmall veffel . GUNNEL , or GUNWALE , the upper edge of a ship's fide . H. HANDING the fails , rolling them up close to the yard or mast to which ...
... anchor , fitted with four or five flukes or claws , commonly used to ride a boat or other fmall veffel . GUNNEL , or GUNWALE , the upper edge of a ship's fide . H. HANDING the fails , rolling them up close to the yard or mast to which ...
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... anchor - ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any diftant object , to which the fight or paf- fage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is to be oppofite to it ; as the entry of a ...
... anchor - ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any diftant object , to which the fight or paf- fage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is to be oppofite to it ; as the entry of a ...
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