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Language of the Sea

MADE -

A made mast or block is one composed of different pieces. A ship's lower mast is a made spar, her topmast is a whole spar.

MAINMAST -

Second mast in vessels with two or more masts, excepts yawls and ketches.

MAINSAIL -

The lower sail set on the mast. In square riggers, also called the main course.

MANGER -

A coaming just within the hawse-hole.

MAN-ROPES -

Ropes used in going up and down a vessel's sides.

MARINER -

Person employed in the commercial shipping trade and works on a ship.

MARL -

To wind or twist a small line or rope round another.

MARLINE -

Small two-stranded material, used for marling.

MARLING-HITCH -

A kind of hitch used in marling.

MARLINGSPIKE -

An iron pin, sharpened at one end, and having a hole in the other for a lanyard. Used both as a fid and a heaver.

MARRY -

To join ropes together by a worming over both.

MARRY THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER -

Old nickname for a flogging. Victim was spread across a ship's gun.

MARTINGALE -

A short perpendicular spar, under the bowsprit end, used for guying down the head-stays.

MASTER -

Merchant Navy oficer in command of a ship.

MAT -

Made of strands of old rope, to prevent chafing.

MATE -

An officer under the master.

MAST -

A spar set upright to support rigging and sails.

MESH -

The places between the lines of the netting.

MESS -

Any number of men who eat together.

MESSENGER -

A rope used for heaving in a cable by the capstan.

MIDDLE GROUND -

Shoal area between two navigable channels.

MIDSHIPS -

The timber at the broadest part of a vessel.

MISS-STAYS -

To fail going about from one tack to another.

MIZZEN-MAST -

The aftermost mast of a ship. The spanker is sometimes called the mizzen.

MIZZEN SAIL -

The lower sail set on the mizzen mast. In square riggers, also called the mizzen course, or, more commonly, the cross-jack. (pron. cro'jack)

MOLDED DEPTH -

The vertical measurement from the deck to the top of the keel.

MONKEY-BLOCK -

A small single block strapped with a swivel.

MONOHULL -

A boat with one hull.

MOON-SAIL -

A small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.

MOOR -

To secure by two anchors.

MOORING -

An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.

MOORING BUOY -

A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom.

MORTICE -

A morticed block is one made out of a whole block of wood with a hole cut in it for the sheave.

MOULDS -

The patterns by which the frames of a vessel are worked out.

MOUSE -

To put turns of rope yard or spun yarn round the end of a hook and its standing part, when it is hooked to anything, so as to prevent its' slipping out.

MOUSING -

A knot or puddening , made of yarns, and placed on the outside of a rope.

MUFFLE -

Oars are muffled by putting mats or canvas round their looms in the oar-locks.

MUNIONS -

The pieces that separate the lights in a galley.


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