H
HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS
HARBOUR to HAWSE
HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE
HAWSE-HOLES
HAWSE-PIECES
HAWSER
HEAD
HEAD of the Ship
By the HEAD
HEAD-FAST
HEAD-LAND
HEADMOST
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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HAWSE-PIECES
HAWSE-PIECES, a name given to the foremost timbers of a ship, whose lower ends rest upon the knuckle-timber, or the foremost of the cant-timbers., They are generally parallel to the stem, having their upper ends sometimes terminated by the lower part of the beak-head; and otherwise, by the top of the bow, particularly in small ships and merchantmen.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 146, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0672.html