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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
HOUNDS to HURRICANE
HOUNDS
HOUSED
HOWKER
HOUSING, or HOUSE-LINE
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HOUSING, or HOUSE-LINE
HOUSING,or HOUSE-LINE, a small line, formed of three fine strands, or twists of hemp, smaller than rope-yarn. It is chiefly used to seize blocks into their strops, to bind the corners of the sails, or to fasten the bottom of a sail to it's bolt-rope, &c. See BOLT-ROPE.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 158, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0724.html