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To PAY
To PAY, (espalmer, Fr.) as a naval term, implies to daub or anoint the surface of any body, in order to preserve it from the injuries of the water, weather, &c.Thus the bottom of a ship is paid with a composition of tallow, sulphur, resin, &c. as described in the article BEAMING.
The sides of a ship are usually paid with tar, turpentine, or resin; or by a composition of tar and oil, to which is sometimes added red oker, &c. to protect the planks thereof from being split by the sun or wind. The lower-masts are, for the same reasons, paid with materials of the same sort, if we except those, along which their respective sails are frequently hoisted and lowered; such are the masts of sloops and schooners, which are always paid with tallow for this purpose: for the same reason all top-masts and top-gallant-masts are also paid with hog's lard, butter, or tallow. See COAT and STUFF.
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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/0942.html