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HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS

HARBOUR to HAWSE

HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE

HEAD-SAILS to HEAVING-out

HEAVING-short to HIGH AND DRY
HEAVING-short
HEAVING-taught
HEEL
HEEL of a mast
HEEL of a top-mast
To HEEL
HELM
HIGH AND DRY

HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD

HOLD to HORSE

HOUNDS to HURRICANE


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HEEL of a mast

HEEL of a mast, the lower-end, which is diminished into the frustum of a pyramid, so as -to sink immoveably into a hole of the same shape, cut in the step, which is attached to the ship's keel.


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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 150, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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