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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
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
Under bare POLES
POMIGLION
PONTOON
POOP
POOP-ROYAL
POOPING
PORT
PORTS
POWDER-CHESTS
PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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POOP-ROYAL
POOP-ROYAL, (dunette sur dunette, Fr.) a short deck, or platform, placed over the aftmost part of the poop in the largest of the French and Spanish men of war, and serving as a cabin for their masters and pilots. This is usually called the top-gallant-poop by our shipwrights.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 218, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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