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HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS
HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH
HAILING
HALIARDS
HAMMOC
HANDING the sails
HAND-OVER-HAND!
HANSPEC
Gunners HANDSPEC
HANK FOR HANK
HANKS
HARBOUR to HAWSE
HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE
HEAD-SAILS to HEAVING-out
HEAVING-short to HIGH AND DRY
HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD
HOLD to HORSE
HOUNDS to HURRICANE
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HAMMOC
HAMMOC, (branle, Fr.) a piece of canvas, fix feet long and three feet wide, gathered or drawn together at the two ends, and hung horizontally under the deck, lengthways, for the sailors to fleep therein. There are usually from fourteen to twenty inches in breadth allowed between decks for every hammoc in a ship of war: this space however must in some measure depend on the number of the crew, &c. in proportion to the room of the vessel.In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy. See the article ENGAGEMENT.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 143, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0654.html