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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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PURCHASE
PURCHASE, a name given by sailors to any sort of mechanical power employed in raising or removing heavy bodies, or in fixing or extending the ship's rigging. Such are the tackles, windlasses, capsterns, screws, and handspikes.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 223, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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