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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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PLANE
PLANE, a term used by shipwrights, implying the area, or imaginary surface, contained within any particular outlines. Thus the plane of elevation, plate I. exhibits a surface limited by the head before, by the stern abaft, by the keel below, and by the upper part of the vessel's side above. Thus the horizontal plane, in the same plate, is comprehended within the lines which describe the ship's greatest breadth and length; and thus also the plane of projection, represented likewise in plate I. circumscribes the greatest heighth and breadth of the same vessel.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 216, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0962.html