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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
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PAUNCH
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PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
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Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
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PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OFF, (abattée, Fr.) the movement by which a ship's head falls to leeward of the point whither it was previously directed: particularly when, by neglect of the helmsman, she had inclined to windward of her course, so as to make the head-sails shiver in the wind, and retard her velocity. See also FALLING-OFF.PAYING-OFF is likewise used to signify the payment of the ship's officers and crew, and the discharge of the ship from service, in order to be laid-up at the moorings.
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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/0943.html