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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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ATRIP
ATRIP (trepor, Fr. trippen, Dutch) is applied differently to the anchor and the sails. The anchor is atrip, derangée, when it is drawn out of the ground in a perpendicular direction, either by the cable or buoy-rope. The top-sails are said to be at rip, when they are hoisted up to the mast-head, or to their utmost extent.
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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/0085.html