Language of the Sea 7
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Language of the Sea
HAIL -
To speak or call to another vessel, or crew in different parts of the ship.
HALYARDS -
Ropes or tackle used for hoisting and lowering yards, gaffs and sails.
HALF-HITCH -
Knot-type.
HAMMOCK -
A piece of canvas or netting, hung at each end, for sleeping.
HAND-LEAD -
A small lead, used for sounding in lakes, rivers and harbors.
HANDSOMELY -
Slowly, carefully. Used for an order, as in "Lower handsomely!"
HANDSPIKE -
A long wooden bar, used for heaving at the windlass.
HAND-BILLY -
A watch tackle.
HANKS -
Rings or hoops round a stay and seized to the luff of a fore-and-aft sail.
HARBOR -
A safe anchorage, protected from most storms; may be natural or man-made, with breakwaters and jetties; a place for docking and loading.
HARD ALEE! -
A command, or warning, that the helm is being turned quickly to leeward, turning the boat to windward.
HARPINGS -
The fore part of the wales, which encompass the bows of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
HATCH -
An opening in a boat's deck fitted with a watertight cover.
Hatch-bar is a metal bar placed across the hatch to keep it down.
HAUL -
Haul her wind, said of a vessel when she comes up close upon the wind.
HAWSE -
The situation of the cables before a vessel's stem, when moored.
Also, the distance upon the water a little in advance of the stem. A vessel sails athwart the hawse, or anchors in the hawse of another.
Open hawse - When a vessel rides by two anchors without any cross in her cables.
HAWSE-HOLE -
The hole in the bows through which the cables run.
HAWSE-PIECES -
Timbers through which the hawse-holes are cut.
HAWSE-BLOCK -
A block of wood fitted into a hawse-hole at sea.
HAWSER -
A large rope used for various purposes.
HAWSER-LAID or CABLE-LAID -
Rope laid with nine strands against the sun.
HAZING -
Sometimes applied to cadets as initiation; making sea life tough through petty tyranny.
HEAD -
A marine toilet. Also the upper corner of a triangular sail.
HEAD-LEDGES -
Thwartship pieces that frame the hatchways.
HEAD-SAILS -
A general name given to al sails that set forward of the fore-mast.
HEAD-STAY -
A wire support line from the mast to the bow.
HEADING -
The direction in which a vessel's bow points at any given time.
HEADWAY -
The forward motion of a boat. Opposite of sternway.
HEART -
A block of wood in the shape of a heart, for stays to reeve through.
HEART-YARNS -
The center yarns of a strand.
HEAVE-SHORT -
To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor.
HEAVE TO -
To bring a vessel up in a position where it will maintain little or no headway, usually with the bow into the wind or nearly so.
HEAVE-IN-STAYS -
To go about in tacking.
HEEL -
The after part of the keel.
Also, the lower end of a mast or boom.
Also, the lower end of the stern-post.
To heel, is to lie over on one side.
HEELING -
The square part of the lower end of a mast, through which the fid-hole is made.
HELM -
The wheel or tiller controlling the rudder.
HELMSMAN -
The person responsible for steering the ship.
HELM-PORT -
The hole in the counter through which the rudder-head passes.
HELM-PORT-TRANSOM -
A timber placed across the lower counter, inside, at the height of the helm-port, and bolted through every timber, for the security of that port.
HIGH-AND-DRY -
Grounded vessel.
HITCH -
A knot used to secure a rope to another object or to another rope, or to form a loop or a noose in a rope.
HOGGED -
Vessel purposely made to droop at each end, bringing her center up.
HOLD -
A compartment below deck in a large vessel, used solely for carrying cargo.
HOLD WATER -
To stop the progress of a boat by keeping the oar blades in the water.
HOLY STONE -
A large stone, used for cleaning a ship's deck.
HOME-
The sheets of a sail are said to be home when the clews are hauled chock out to the sheave-holes.
An anchor comes home when it is loosened from the ground and hove in.
HOOD -
A covering for a companion hatch, skylight, etc..
HOOD-ENDS -
The ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem or stern-post.
HOOP -
Iron or wooden rings sliding along masts, gaffs, booms, etc. to which sails are bent.
HORNS -
The jaws of booms.
Also, the ends of cross-trees.
HORSE - See ( FOOT-ROPE )
HORSE MARINE -
Seaman whose presence is more trouble than he's worth.
HOUNDS -
Projections at the mast-head serving as shoulders for the top or trestle-trees to rest upon.
HOUSE -
To house a mast is to lower it almost half it's length, and secure it by lashing it's heel to the mast below.
HOUSING or HOUSE-LINE -
A small cord made of three small yarns, and used for seizings.
HOVELLER -
Person who assists in saving life from a shipwreck near the coast.
Also, a small boat used for this purpose.
HULK -
Hull of dismantled ship, frequently used as a store vessel.
HULL -
The main body of a vessel.
HULLING -
Vessel at the mercy of wind and sea while afloat, but idle.
Also, to take in sail during a calm.
Also, to pierce a vessel's hull with a projectile.
HURRICANE DECK -
Flush upper deck above the main deck. The bulwarks are taken up to this all around. This results in one long, continuous superstructure.
HYDROFOIL -
Vessel equipped with foils attached to the hull, allowing it to plane on the surface of the water.
HYPOTHERMIA -
A life-threatening condition in which the body's warming mechanisms fail to maintain normal body temperature and the entire body cools.
Corrections, Additions & Clarifications - MMNETSEA
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