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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PARTING
PARTNERS
PASS or PASSPORT
PASSAGE
PASSGE-BOAT
PASSAREE
PAUL
PAUNCH
To PAY
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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PARTING
PARTING, (démarrer, Fr.) the state of being driven from the anchors; expressed of a ship, when she has broke her cable by the violence of the wind, waves, or current, or all of them together.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 212, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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