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ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS
Foul ANCHOR
To ANCHOR
ANCHOR is a cock-bill
At ANCHOR
The ANCHOR is a-peek
The ANCHOR as a-trip, or a-weigh
To back the ANCHOR
To cat the ANCHOR
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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Foul ANCHOR
Foul ANCHOR: it is so called when it either hooks some other anchor, wreck, or cable, under the surface of the water; or when, by the wind suddenly abating, the ship slackens her strain, and straying round the bed of her anchor entangles her slack cable about the upper fluke of it, and easily draws it out of it's place, as soon as she begins to ride with a strain. To prevent this, it is usual, as she approaches the anchor, in light winds, to draw the slack cable into the ship as fast as possible.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 9, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0047.html