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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PACKET or PACKET-BOAT
PADDLE
PAINTER
PALM
PANCH
PARBUCKLE
PARCELING
PARLIAMENT-HEEL
PARREL
PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
PIN of a block to PLANKING
PLAT to POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PAINTER
PAINTER, cableau, Fr. (probably from bindar, Sax. to bind) a rope employed to fasten a boat either along-side of the ship to which the belongs, or to some wharf, key, &c. as occasion requires.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 210, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0926.html