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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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calm
Sailing; General sailing
Stillness of the air. Stillness or smoothness of the sea. An unrippled sea. Dead calm, stark calm, flat calm, clock calm, glass calm, glass smooth sea.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
handsomely
Sailing; General sailing
Steadily; with care. Not too fast nor yet too slow, but with great care; cleverly. As "Lower away handsomely." In easing up a sheet, if the man is likely to let it fly, the master or mate will sing ...
lee-going tide
Sailing; General sailing
The tide that is running to leeward in the direction of the wind. The opposite to weather-going tide, which see.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
bale
Sailing; General sailing
A fitting on the end of a spar, such as the boom, to which a line may be led.
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