H
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
HOUNDS to HURRICANE
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HOLD
HOLD, (cale, Fr.) the whole interior cavity or belly of a ship, or all that part of her inside, which is comprehended between the floor and the lower-deck, throughout her whole length.This capacious apartment usually contains the ballast, provisions, and stores of a ship of war, and the principal part of the cargo in a merchantman. The disposition of those articles, with regard to each other, &c. necessarily falls under our consideration in the article STOWAGE; it suffices in this place to lay, that the places where the ballast, water, provisions, and liquors are stowed, are known by the general name of the hold. The several storerooms are separated from each other by bulk-heads, and are denominated according to the articles which they contain, the sail-room, the bread-room, the fish-room, the spirit-room, &c.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 155, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0707.html