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EARINGS to ENGAGEMENT
EARINGS
EASE the ship!
To EASE off, or EASE away
EBB
EDDY
To EDGE away
ELBOW in the hawse
EMBARGO
EMBAYED, from bay
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EMBAYED, from bay
EMBAYED, from bay, (encapé, Fr.) the situation of a ship when she is inclosed between two capes or promontories. It is particularly applied when the wind, by blowing strongly into any bay or gulf, makes it extremely difficult, and perhaps impracticable for the vessel, thus enclosed, to claw off from the shore, so as to weather the capes and gain the offing.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 105, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0469.html