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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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breaming
Sailing; General sailing
Cleaning off a ship's bottom by burning the excrescences thereon. Sometimes when a vessel is not coppered small worms will eat into the plank. It is usual then to scrape her bottom, coal tar her, and ...
scud
Sailing; General sailing
To run before a gale of wind with very little canvas set, or "under bare poles."
eyelet holes
Sailing; General sailing
Small holes worked in sails for lacings, &c., to be rove through.
home
Sailing; General sailing
Any operation that is completely performed, as "sheeted home" when the clew of a sail is hauled out to the last inch, &c. An anchor is said to come home when it breaks out of the ground.
leech line
Sailing; General sailing
A line running through the leech of the sail, used to tighten it.
sooji
Sailing; General sailing
A composition of caustic soda and quicklime for cleaning off old paint, varnish, oil, grease and a good deal of skin.
skinning
Sailing; General sailing
In stowing a mainsail lifting the outside part up time after time, the bunt forming a kind of bag. This should never be allowed, as it ruins the sail.
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