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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
HOLD to HORSE
HOLD
HOLDING-on
HOLDING-water
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HOLDING-water
HOLDING-water, the operation of stopping a boat in her course, by holding the oars in the water, and bearing the blade, or flat part, strongly against the current made along-side, by her passing swiftly through the water. See BACK-ASTERN, OAR, and ROWING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 156, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0713.html