H
HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS
HARBOUR to HAWSE
HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE
HEAD-SAILS to HEAVING-out
HEAD-SAILS
HEAD-TO-WIND
HEAD-WAY
HEART
HEAVER
HEAVING
HEAVING the lead
HEAVING a-head
HEAVING-down
HEAVING-out
HEAVING-short to HIGH AND DRY
HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD
HOLD to HORSE
HOUNDS to HURRICANE
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HEAVER
HEAVER, a name given by seamen to a wooden staff employed by them as a lever on many occasions; particularly in setting up the top-mast-shrouds, fraping the top-masts, stroping the larger blocks, feizing the standing rigging, &c. See those articles.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 149, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0685.html