Language of the Sea 3
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Language of the Sea
DAGGER -
A timber crossing all the puppets of the bilge-ways for strength.
DANFORTH ANCHOR -
Light anchor useful for all bottom conditions. Flukes pivot with no stock.
DAVITS -
Pieces of timber or iron, with sheaves or blocks at their ends, projecting over a vessel's sides or stern, to hoist boats up to.
Also, a spar with a roller or sheave at it's end, used for fishing the anchor.
DAYBEACON -
A fixed navigation aid structure used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks.
DAYMARK -
A signboard attached to a day beacon to convey navigational information presenting one of several standard shapes (square, triangle, rectangle) and colors (red, green, orange, yellow, or black). Day marks usually have reflective material indicating the shape, but may also be lighted.
DEAD AHEAD -
Directly ahead.
DEAD ASTERN -
Directly aft or behind.
DEAD-EYE -
A circular block of wood, with three holes through it, for the lanyards of rigging to reeve through, without sheaves, and with a groove round it for an iron strap.
DEAD-FLAT -
One of the bends, amidship.
DEAD-LIGHTS -
Ports placed in the cabin windows in bad weather.
DEAD RECKONING -
A plot of courses steered and distances traveled through the water.
DEAD-RISE -
Measurement of an angle between the bottom of the vessel and its widest beam. The higher the degree, the deeper the V hull.
DEAD-RISING -
Those parts of a vessel's floors, throughout her entire length, where the floor timber is terminated upon the lower futtock.
DEAD-WATER -
The eddy under a vessel's counter.
DEAD-WOOD -
Blocks of timber, laid upon each end of the keel where the vessel narrows.
DEAD WEIGHT TONNAGE -
See TONNAGE
DECK -
A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of a ship serving as a floor.
DECK BEAMS -
Lateral beams, spanning the hull over the heads of the frames, on which the deck rests.
DECK-STOPPER -
A stopper used for securing the cable forward of the windlass, or capstan, while it is overhauled.
DEEP-SEA-LEAD -
The lead used in soundings taken at great depths.
DEPTH(vessel) -
Vertical measurement from the bottom of the keel to the sheerline.
DEPTH SOUNDER -
Instrument using sound waves to measure the distance to the bottom.
DHOW -
Arabian sailing vessel with two or more masts rigged with lateen sails. The name is not used by the Arabs themselves.
DISPLACEMENT -
The weight of water displaced by a floating vessel.
DISPLACEMENT HULL -
A type of hull that plows through the water, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added.
DITTY BAG -
Small bag in which seamen keep their personal belongings. This is sometimes a ditty box.
DOCK -
A protected water area in which vessels are moored. The term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf.
DOG-VANE -
A small vane, made of feathers or bunting, to take wind direction.
DOG-WATCHES -
Half watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6 and from 6 to 8 P.M..
DOLPHIN -
A rope or strap round the mast to support the puddening, where the lower yards rest in the slings.
Also, a spar or buoy with a large ring in it, secured to an anchor, to which vessels may bend their cable.
DOLPHIN-STRIKER -
A martingale.
DONKEYMAN -
Seaman who tends a donkey engine; Engine room assistant.
DORY -
Small, flat-bottomed rowing boats manned by one or two fishermen. Used for cod-fishing off Newfoundland. The name is derived from the Portuguese pescadores meaning fishermen.
DOUSE -
To lower suddenly.
DOWELING -
A method of coaking, by letting pieces into the solid, or uniting two pieces together by tenoning.
DOWNHAUL -
A rope used to haul down jibs, staysails and studding sails.
DRABLER -
A piece of canvas laced to the bonnet of a sail to give it more drop.
DRAFT -
The depth of water a boat draws. Vertical measurement from the designed waterline to the lowermost edge of the keel.
DRAFT MARKS -
Numerals painted on the stem and stern post of ships which mark the draft in feet.
DRAGGING -
A vessel is dragging anchor when she drifts unimpeded by the anchor.
DRAW -
A vessels draws when it is filled with the wind.
To draw a jib is to shift it over the stay to leeward, when it is aback.
DRIFTS -
Those pieces in a sheer-draught where the rails are cut off.
DRIFT ICE -
Large pieces of ice broken from an even larger piece, such as an iceberg. Floating, sometimes obscurely, they can be a great problem asea and require continual watch.
DRIVE -
To scud before a gale, or to drift in a current.
DRIVER -
A spanker.
DROGUE -
In a following sea, device cast astern into the water to aid the stern in keeping up to the waves.
DROMON -
Byzantine warship with two banks of oars on each side.
DROP -
The depth of a sail, from head to foot, amidships.
DRUM-HEAD -
The top of a capstan.
DUB -
To reduce the end of a timber.
DUNNAGE -
Loose wood, or other matter, placed in the bottom of a hold, above the ballast, to stow cargo upon.
Corrections, Additions & Clarifications - MMNETSEA
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