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PARLIAMENT-HEEL
PARLIAMENT-HEEL, the situation of a ship, when she is made to stoop a little to one side, so as to clean the upper part of her bottom on the other side, and cover it with a new composition; and afterwards to perform the same office on that part of the bottom which was first immersed. The application of a new composition, or coat of stuff, on this occasion, is called boot -topping. See that article.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 211, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0931.html