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ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
AGENT-VICTUALLER
AGROUND
AHEAD
To run AHEAD
Line AHEAD
A-HULL
AIM
ALEE
ALL in the wind
ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
ASHORE to AUGER
AWEIGH to AZIMUTH COMPASS
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AGENT-VICTUALLER
AGENT-VICTUALLER (avitalleur, Fr.) an officer stationed at a royal port, to regulate the victualing of the king's ships, under the direction of the commissioners for victualing the navy. He receives all the provisions from the victualing-office in London, and distributes them to the ships in the harbor. He also receives into his store-houses such as may be returned by ships after the expiration of their cruise or voyage, and renders an account thereof to the said commissioners.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 6, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0026.html