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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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PAUL
PAUL, (elinguet, epaule, Fr.) a certain short bar of wood, or iron, fixed close to the capstern, or windlass of a ship, to prevent those engines from rolling back, or giving way, when they are employed to heave-in the cable1 or orterwise charged with any great effort. See CAPSTERN and WINDLASS.
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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/0940.html