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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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POOPING
POOPING, the shock of a high and heavy sea, upon the stern or quarter of a ship, when the scuds before the wind in a tempest. This circumstance is extremely dangerous to the vessel, which is thereby exposed to the risk of having her whole stern beat inwards, by which the would be immediately laid open to the entrance of the sea, and of course founder or be torn to pieces.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 218, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0979.html