Language of the Sea 14
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Language of the Sea
QUARTER -
The sides of a boat aft of amidships.
The quarter of a yard is between the slings and the yard-arm.
The wind is said to be quartering when it blows in a line between that of the keel and the beam and abaft the latter.
QUARTER BOAT -
Boat carried on davits on quarter of ship.
QUARTERING SEA -
Sea coming on a boat's quarter.
QUARTER-BLOCK -
A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve through.
QUARTER-DECK -
That part of the upper-deck abaft the mainmast.
QUARTER-MASTER -
A petty officer who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, watches for signals, etc.
QUARTER-SPRING -
Rope leading forward from quarter of ship to heave her ahead, or prevent her from moving astern.
QUAY -
Man-made structure built into the water and attached to land to facilitate handling of cargo, passenger disembarkment, etc..
QUICK-WORK -
In ship-building, that part of a vessel's side which is above the chain-wales and decks.
QUILTING -
A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven together.
QUOIN -
A wooden wedge for the breech of a gun to rest upon.
RABBET -
A groove on either side of the keel and stem to receive the edges of the planks.
RACE -
A strong, rippling tide.
RACK -
To seize two ropes together, with cross-turns.
Also, a fair-leader for running rigging.
RACK-BLOCK -
A course of blocks made from one piece of wood, for fair-leaders.
RADOME -
Cover placed over a radar screen to prevent risk of fouling.
RAFTING -
Overlaping of edges of two ice floes.
RAIL -
The top of the bulwarks, a 'fence' of wire and stanchions surrounding the deck.
RAKE -
The inclination of a mast from the perpendicular.
RAMLINE -
A line used in mast-making to get a straight middle line on a spar.
RANGE OF CABLE -
A quantity of cable, more or less, placed in order for letting go the anchor or paying out.
RATLINES -
Lines running across the shrouds, horizontally, like the rounds of a ladder, and used to step upon in going aloft.
RATTLE DOWN RIGGING -
To put ratlines upon rigging. It is still called rattling down, though they are now rattled up; beginning at the lowest.
RAZEE -
A vessel of war which has had one deck cut down.
REACH -
To sail with a beam wind.
Also, straight stretches of water between two bends in a river, channel, etc..
READY ABOUT! -
Prepare to come about.
RECTOR -
cir: 11th century. Master.
REEF -
To reduce the sail area.
REEF-BAND -
A band of stout canvass sewed on the sail across, with points in it, and earings at each end for reefing.
A reef is al of the sail that is comprehended between the head of the sail and the first reef-band, or between two reef-bands.
REEF POINTS -
Rows of small ropes on a sail parallel to the yard or gaff, with which the sail is tied up when it is reefed.
REEF-TACKLE -
A tackle used to haul the middle of each leech up towards the yard so that the sail may be easily reefed.
REEVE -
To pass the end of a rope through a block, or any aperture.
REFIT -
Replacement of worn or damaged gear.
RELIEVING TACKLE -
A tackle hooked to the tiller in a gale of wind, to steer by in case anything should happen to the wheel or tiller-ropes.
RENDER -
To pass a rope through a place. A rope is said to render or not, according as it goes freely through anything.
RHUMB LINE -
A straight line compass course between two points.
RIB-BANDS -
Long, narrow, flexible pieces of timber nailed to the outside of the ribs, so as to encompass the vessel lengthwise.
RIBS -
A figurative term for a vessel's timber.
RIDE AT ANCHOR -
To lie at anchor.
Also, to bend or bear down by main strength and weight; as to, ride down the main tack.
RIDERS -
Interior timber placed occasionally opposite the principle ones, to which they are bolted, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck.
RIG -
The whole of a ship's masts and sails and the way they are arranged.
RIGGING -
The general term for all the lines of a vessel.
RIGHT -
To right the helm, as to put it amidships.
RING -
The iron ring at the upper end of an anchor, to which the cable is bent.
RING-BOLT -
An eye-bolt with a ring through the eye.
RING-TAIL -
A small sail, shaped like a jib, set abaft the spanker in light winds.
ROACH -
A curve in the foot of a square sail, by which the clews are brought below the middle of the foot. The roach of a fore-and-aft sail is in it's forward leech.
ROAD or ROAD-STEAD -
An anchorage at some distance from the shore.
ROBANDS - See ( ROPE-BANDS )
RODE -
The anchor line and/or chain.
ROLL -
The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternately to port and starboard; the motion of a boat about its fore-and-aft axis.
ROLLING-TACKLE -
Tackle used to steady the yards in a heavy sea.
ROMBOWLINE -
Condemned canvass, rope. etc.
ROOMING -
Navigable area to leeward.
ROPE -
In general, cordage as it is purchased at the store. When it comes aboard a vessel and is put to use, it becomes a line.
ROPE-BANS or ROBANDS -
Small pieces of two or three yarn spun yarn or marline, used to confine the head of a sail to the yard or gaff.
ROPE-YARN -
A thread of hemp, of which a rope is made.
ROUGH-TREE -
An unfinished spar.
ROUND-IN -
To haul in on a rope, especially a weatherbrace.
ROUNDING -
A service of rope, hove round a spar or larger rope.
ROWLOCKS or ROLLOCKS -
Places cut in the gunwale of a boat for the oar to rest in while pulling.
ROYAL -
A light sail next above a topgallant sail.
ROYAL YARD -
The yard from which the royal is set. The fourth from the deck.
RUBBER -
A small instrument used to rub or flatten down the seams of a sail in sailmaking.
RUDDER -
A vertical plate or board for steering a boat.
RUMMAGE -
To search the ship carefully.
RUN -
The afterpart of a vessel's bottom, which rises and narrows in approaching the sternpost.
RUN OUT -
To put out a moor, hawhsing or line to a specified point.
RUNG-HEADS -
The upper ends of the floor timbers.
RUNNER -
A rope used to increase the power of a tackle. It is rove through a single block for bringing down.
RUNNING LIGHTS -
Lights required to be shown on boats underway between sundown and sunup.
RUNNING-RIGGING -
The ropes that reeve through blocks, and are pulled or hauled, such as braces, halyards,etc. In opposition to the standing rigging, the ends of which are securely seized, such as shrouds, stays, etc..
RUNNING SQUARE-SAIL -
A large, deep-cut square-sail set on the lower yard by many topsail schooners when running before the wind.
Corrections, Additions & Clarifications - MMNETSEA
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