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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PARTING
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PASS or PASSPORT
PASSAGE
PASSGE-BOAT
PASSAREE
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PAUNCH
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PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
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PASSAREE
PASSAREE, a rope used to fasten the main-tack down to the ship's side, a little behind the ches-tree. This contrivance however is very rarely used, and never but in light breezes of wind.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 213, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0939.html