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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
PLAT to POLE-MAST
PLAT
PLUG
PLUNDER
PLYING
POINT
POINTING
POINTS
POLACRE
POLE-AXE
POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PLAT
PLAT, (garcette de cable, Fr.) a sort of braided cordage, formed of several strands of old rope-yarn, twisted into foxes. It is used to wind about that part of the cable which lies in the hawse-hole, or against the fore-part of the ship, where it would otherwise be greatly injured by the continual friction, produced by the agitation of the ship in stormy weather. See the articles FRESHEN and SERVICE.
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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/0964.html