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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
PROTEST to PURSER
PROTEST
PROW
PUDENING
PULLING
PUMP
PUMP-spear
PUNT
PURCHASE
PURSER
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PROW
PROW, (proue, Fr. pros. Lat.) a name given by seamen to the beak, or pointed cut-water of a polacre, xebeck, or galley. The upper-part of the prow, in those vessels, is usually furnished with a grating-platform for the convenience of the seamen who walk out to perform whatever is necessary about the sails or rigging in the bowsprit.
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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/0995.html