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HORSE
HORSE, (marche-pied, Fr.) a rope reaching from the middle of a yard to it's extremity, or what is called the yard-arm, and depending about two or three feet under the yard, for the sailors to tread upon, whilst they are loofing, reefing or furling the sails, rigging out the studding-sail booms, &c. In order therefore to keep the horse more parallel to the yard, it is usually suspended thereto, at proper distances, by certain ropes called stirrups, which hang about two feet under the yard, having an eye in their lower ends through which the horse passes. See the article RIGGING.HORSE is also a thick rope, extended in a perpendicular direction near the fore or after-side of a mast, for the purpose of hoisting or extending some sail thereon. When it is fixed before a mast, it is calculated for the use of a sail called the square-sail, whose yard being attached to the horse, by means of a traveller, or bull's-eye, which slides up and down occasionally, is retained in a steady position, either when the sail is set, or whilst it is hoisting or lowering. When the horse is placed abaft or behind a mast, it is intended for the try-sail of a snow, and is accordingly very rarely fixed in this position, except in those sloops of war which occasionally assume the form of snows, in order to deceive the enemy.
HORSE, (baudet, Fr.) a lawyer's frame or trestle.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 157, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0720.html