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DEAD-WATER
DEAD-WATER, (remoux, Fr.) the eddy of water which appears like little whirl-pools, closing in with the ship's stern as the sails through it.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 96, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0414.html