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PUDENING
PUDENING, (bourrelet, Fr.) a thick wreath, or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the main-mast and fore-mast of a ship, to prevent their yards from falling down, when the ropes by which they are usually suspended are shot away in battle.The pudening, which is represented by fig. I. plate VIII. is generally formed in the following manner: A small piece of rope, whose length is twice the diameter of the mast, is spliced together at the two ends, and being thus doubled and extended, a thimble is feized into each of the extremities. After this a large quantity of parceling is firmly wound about its surface in such a manner as to make it gradually larger from the two ends towards the middle. It is afterwards, once or twice, served with spun-yarn throughout its whole length,. to bind the parceling more closely, and render it firmer and more compact; and the whole is completed by pointing it on the surface. Being then fitted with a laniard at one of the eyes, it is fixed about the mast by passing the laniard alternately through both eyes or thimbles on the fore-side of the mast. See also DOLPHIN.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 220, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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