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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
PRATIC to PROP
PRATIC
PREVENTER
PRICKING the chart
PRICKING the sails
PRIMING
PRIMING-WIRE or PRIMING IRON
PRIVATEER
PRIZE
PRIZING
PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PREVENTER
PREVENTER, an additional rope, employed at times to support any other, when the latter suffers an unusual strain, particularly in a strong gale of wind; as thePREVENTER-BRACE, a temporary brace, fixed occasionally to succour the main or fore-yard of a ship, but particularly the latter, when it is charged with a greater effort than usual, and which, it is apprehended, the common standing braces would not be able to support. See BRACE.
PREVENTER-SHROUDS, and PREVENTER-STAYS, are applied, in the same manner, to serve the same purposes; and may be easily understood by referring to the articles SHROUD and STAY.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 219, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0985.html