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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 sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
ASHORE to AUGER
ASHORE
ASTERN
ATHWART
ATHWART-HAWSE
ATHWART the fore-foot
ATHWART-SHIPS
ATRIP
AVAST
AVERAGE
AUGER
AWEIGH to AZIMUTH COMPASS
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ATHWART the fore-foot
ATHWART the fore-foot, a phrase employed to denote the flight of a cannon ball, as fired from one ship across the line of another's course, to intercept the latter, and compel her to shorten sail till the former approaches near enough to examine her. The fore-foot is the lower part of the stem; so that the shot flying across it is said to be fired athwart the fore-foot.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 24, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0083.html