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RIBS of a ship
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RIDING between the wind and tide
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RIGGING-OUT a boom
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RIGGING-OUT a boom
RIGGING-OUT a boom, the operation of running out a pole upon the end of a yard, or bowsprit, to extend the foot of a sail. These booms are confined in those places by double rings, formed like a figure of 8,. one part of which is fastened to the respective yard-arm, or bowsprit-end, and the other receives the boom, which is occasionally rigged out, or drawn in through it. The rings used in this service, are termed boom-irons.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 244, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1074.html