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GAFF to GANG
GANG-BOARD to GIMBALS
GIMBLETING to Fire-GRAPPLING
GRATINGS to GROUND-TACKLE
GROWING to GUTTER-LEDGE
GROWING
GUARD-BOAT
GUARD-IRONS
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GUNNEL or GUN-WALE
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GUTTER-LEDGE
GUTTER-LEDGE, (traversier d'ecoutille, Fr.) a cross bar laid along the middle of a large hatchway in some vessels, to support the covers, and enable them the better to sustain any weighty body which may be moved or laid thereon.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 142, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0647.html