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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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PRIZING
PRIZING, the application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, &c.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 220, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0992.html