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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
PIN of a block to PLANKING
PIN of a block
PINK
PINNACE
PINTLES
PIRATE
PITCH
To PITCH the seams
PITCHING
PLANE
PLANKING
PLAT to POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PINK
PINK, (pinque, Fr.) a name given to a ship with a very narrow stern whence all vessels, however small, whose sterns are fashioned in this manner, are called pink-sterned.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 215, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0955.html