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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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PLUG
PLUG, (palardeux, Fr. plug, Swed.) certain pieces of timber, formed like the frustum of a cone, and used to stop the hawse-holes, and the breaches made in the body of a ship by cannon-balls; the former of which are called hawse-plugs, and the latter, shot-plugs, which are formed of various sizes in proportion to the holes made by the different sizes of shot, which may penetrate the ship's sides or bottom in battle; accordingly they are always ready for this purpose. See ENGAGEMENT.
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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/0965.html