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| - | To cast off or untie.
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| - | '''UNDERWAY''' -
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| - | Vessel in motion, i.e., when not moored, at anchor, or aground.
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| - | '''UNION -'''
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| - | The upper inner corner of an ensign. The rest of the flag is called the ''fly.'' The ''union'' of the U.S. ensign is a blue field with white stars, and the ''fly'' is composed of alternate white and red stripes.
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| - | ''Union-down'' The appearance of the flag when it is hoisted upside down. Used as a distress signal.
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| - | ''Union-jack ''A small flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted at the bowsprit cap.
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| - | '''VANE -'''
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| - | A fly worn at the mast-head, made of feathers or buntine, traversing on a spindle, to show the direction of the wind.
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| - | '''VANG -'''
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| - | A rope leading from the peak of the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail to the rail on each side, and used for steadying the gaff.
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| - | '''V BOTTOM''' -
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| - | A hull with the bottom section in the shape of a "V."
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| - | '''VARIATION''' -
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| - | The angular difference between the magnetic meridian and the geographic meridian at a particular location.
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| - | '''VEER -'''
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| - | Said of the wind when it changes.
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| - | ''Also'', to slack a cable and let it out.
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| - | '''VIGIA -'''
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| - | Uncharted, and undocumented or verified, navigational hazard or danger.
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| - | '''VIOL or VOYAL -'''
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| - | A larger messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan.
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| - | ''Also'', the block through which the messenger passes.
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| - | '''VHF RADIO''' -
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| - | A very high frequency electronic communications and direction finding system.
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| - | '''WAIST -'''
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| - | That part of the upper deck between the quarter-deck and the forecastle.
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| - | '''WAKE''' -
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| - | Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind when moving across the waters.
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| - | '''WALES -'''
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| - | Strong planks in a vessel's sides running the entire length fore-and-aft.
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| - | '''WALL -'''
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| - | A knot put on the end of a rope.
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| - | '''WALL-SIDED -'''
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| - | A vessel is ''wall-sided'' when her sides run up perpendicularly from the bends. In opposwition to ''tumbling home'' or ''flaring out.''
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| - | '''WARD ROOM -'''
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| - | The room in a vessel of war in which the commissioned officers live.
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| - | '''WARE or WEAR -'''
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| - | To turn a vessel round, so that, from having the wind on one side, you bring it upon the other, carrying her stern round by the wind. In ''tacking'', the samse result is produced by carrying a vessel's head round by the wind.
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| - | '''WARP -'''
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| - | To move a vessel from one place to another by means of a rope made fast to some fixed object, or kedge.
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| - | '''WASHBOARDS -'''
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| - | Light pieces of board placed above the gunwale of a boat. Also to the companionway.
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| - | '''WATCH -'''
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| - | A division of time on board a ship. There are seven watches in a day, reckoning from 12 A.M., five of them being of four hours each, and the two others, called ''dog watches'', of two hours each.
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| - | '''WATCH-ANDWATCH -'''
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| - | The arrangement by which the watches are alternated every other four hours. In distinction from keeping all hands during one or more watches.
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| - | '''WATCH HO! WATCH -'''
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| - | The cry of the man that heaves the deep-sea-lead.
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| - | '''WATCH TACKLE -'''
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| - | A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a hook. Used for various purposes about deck.
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| - | '''WATERLINE''' -
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| - | A line painted on a hull which shows the point to which a boat sinks when it is properly trimmed.
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| - | '''WATER-SAIL -'''
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| - | A ''save-all'', set under the swinging-boom.
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| - | '''WATER-WAYS -'''
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| - | Long pieces of timber, running fore-and-aft on both sides, connecting the deck with the vessel's sides. The ''scuppers'' are made through them to let the water off.
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| - | '''WAVESON -'''
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| - | Goods floating on the sea after a shipwreck.
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| - | '''WAY''' -
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| - | Movement of a vessel through the water, such as headway, sternway, or leeway.
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| - | '''WAY ENOUGH! -'''
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| - | Order given to a boat's crew when moving alongside. Boat has sufficient way and oars to be placed inside of boat.
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| - | '''WEATHER -'''
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| - | In the direction from which the wind blows.
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| - | A ship carries a ''weather helm'' when she tends to come up into the wind, requiring you to put the helm up.
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| - | ''Weather gage. ''A vessel has the ''weather gage'' of another when she is to windward to her.
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| - | A ''weatherly ship, ''is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
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| - | '''WEATHER-BITT -'''
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| - | The roll which a ship makes windward.
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| - | '''WEATHER TIDE - '''
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| - | The wind and the tide run in opposite directions.
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| - | '''WEIGH -'''
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| - | To lift up, as, to weigh an anchor or a mast.
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| - | '''WELL FOUND -'''
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| - | Said of a vessel that is properly equipped with equipment, gear and stores.
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| - | A man-made structure bonding the edge of a dock and built along or at an angle to the shoreline, used for loading, unloading, or tying up vessels.
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| - | '''WHARFINGER -'''
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| - | A person who owns or manages a wharf.
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| - | '''WHEEL -'''
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| - | The instrument by which a ship is steered; being a barrel (round which the tiller ropes go), and a wheel with spokes.
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| - | '''WHIP -'''
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| - | A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block.
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| - | A light spar that holds the jib out when sailing downwind.
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| - | Slang for giving good, yet unheeded, advice.
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| - | '''WHITE HORSES -'''
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| - | A device used to increase hauling power when raising or trimming sails.
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| - | The machine used to weigh the anchor by.
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| - | '''WIND-RODE -'''
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| - | The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current. ''See'' ( TIDE-RODE )
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| - | Toward the direction from which the wind is coming. Opposite of leeward.
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| - | That part of the hold or between-decks nearest the side of the vessel.
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| - | The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her forsail hauled over on one side and her mainsail on the other.
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| - | An iron instrument fitted on the end of a boom or mast, with a ring attached to it, through which another boom or mast is rigged out and secured.
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| - | To wind a piece of rope round a spar, or other thing.
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Revision as of 11:01, 31 March 2008
Language of the Sea (A Nautical Dictionary)
NOMENCLATURE AND TERMINOLGY OF THE SEA As provided by Seafarers throughout the ages.
ABAFT - Toward the rear (stern) of the boat. Behind.
ABEAM - At right angles to the keel of the boat, but not on the boat.
ABOARD - On or within the boat.
ABOARD MAIN TACK! - The order to draw the lower corner of the mainsail down to the chestree.
ABOUT - The situation of a vessel as soon as she has tacked.
ABOUT SHIP! - The order to prepare for tacking.
ABOVE DECK - On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT).
ABREAST - Off the side, level with the vessel.
ABYSS - All area of water lying 300 fathoms beneath the surface.
A-COCK BILL - Yards topped up at an angle with the deck. An anchor hanging from the cathead by a ring only.
ADRIFT - Broken from moorings. Afloat with no propulsion system in operation.
AFLOAT - Buoyed up by the water from the ground.
AFORE - Forward
AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.
AGAINST THE SUN - Anti-clockwise circular motion. Left-handed ropes are coiled against the sun.
AGROUND - Touching or fast to the bottom.
AHEAD - In a forward direction.
AHULL - Vessel lying alee with all sails furled.
AIDS TO NAVIGATION (A to N) - Artificial objects to supplement natural landmarks to indicate safe and unsafe waters.
ALOFT - Above the deck of the boat.
ALL-ABACK - All sails aback
ALL HANDS - The full crew
ALL IN THE WIND - When all sails are shaking. The state of a vessel's sails when they are parallel to the direction of the wind.
ALL HANDS HOAY! - The call by which all the ship's company are called up on deck.
ALONGSIDE - Side by side; joined to another vessel, pier, wharf, etc..
ALONG SHORE - Along the coast; A coast which is in sight, and nearly parallel with it.
ALOOF - At a distance
AMAIN - Suddenly. At once.
AMIDSHIPS - In or toward the center of the boat.
ANCHOR - A heavy metal device, fastened to a chain or line, to hold a vessel in position, partly because of its weight, but chiefly because the designed shape digs into the bottom.
ANCHOR ICE - Ice, of any form, that is aground in the sea.
ANCHOR-LOCKER - Storage space used for the anchor rode and anchor.
ANCHOR-WATCH - A small watch of one or two men, kept while in port.
AN-END - Mast being perpendicular to the deck.
ANCHORAGE - A place suitable for anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom.
ANTIFOULING - Paint used on the bottom of the vessel to prevent barnacles and other organisms from attaching and propagating.
APPARENT WIND - The direction of the wind as is relative to the speed and direction of the boat.
A-PEEK - When a cable is hove taut so as to bring the vessel nearly over her anchor. The yards are a-peek when they are topped up by contrary winds.
APRON - A timber fixed behind the lower part of the stern just above the fore-end of the keel. A covering to the vent.
ARM. YARD-ARM - The extremity of a yard. Also, the lower part of an anchor, crossing the shank and terminating in the flukes.
ARMING - A piece of tallow put in the cavity and over the bottom of a lead-line.
ASHORE - On land.
ASTERN - In back of the boat, opposite of ahead.
ATHWART HAWSE - The situation of a ship when driven by accident across the fore-part of another, whether they touch or at a small distance from each other. The transverse position of the former is understood.
ATHWART THE FOREFOOT - When any object crosses the line of a ship's course, but ahead of her, it is said to be athwart her forefoot.
ATHWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwartships.
A-TRIP - The anchor when it is raised clear of the ground. Same as a-weigh.
AVAST - An order to "stop".
AWASH - Deck of vessel overcome with waves.
A-WEATHER - The helm, when it is put in the direction from which the wind blows.
AWEIGH - Same as a-trip.
YARDARM -
That part of the yard that lies between the lift and the outer edge.
YARN -
A sea tale.
YAW -
To swing off course, as when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea.
YAWL -
A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post.
Corrections, Additions & Clarifications - MMNETSEA
