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GAMMONING
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GAMMONING
GAMMONING, (lieure, Fr.) a rope used to bind the inner quarter of the bowsprit close down to the ship's stem, in order to enable it the better to support the stays of the fore-mast, and carry sail in the fore part of the vessel. Seven or eight turns of this rope, fig. 6, 8, and 9. plate IV. are passed over the bowsprit A, and through a large hole in the stem or knee of the head Y alternately: after all the turns are drawn as firm as possible, the opposite ones are braced together under the bowsprit by a fraping, as exhibited in the same figure.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 137, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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