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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
HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD
HIGH WATER
HITCH
HOASE or HOSE
HOG
HOIST
HOISTING
HOLD
To trim the HOLD
After-HOLD
Fore-HOLD
HOLD to HORSE
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HOISTING
HOISTING, (shisser, Fr.) the operation of drawing up any body by the assistance of one or more tackles, according to the weight intended to be railed. See the article TACKLE.The act of pulling up any body, by the help of a single block only, is never expressed by the term hoisting, if we except the exercise of extending the sails, by drawing them upwards along the masts or stays, to which it is invariably applied. See also TRACING-UP and WHIPPING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 155, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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