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SHOT to SLAB-LINE
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SPRINGING THE LUFF to SQUALL
SQUARE to STANDING-WATER
STARBOARD to STEM
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SETTING
SETTING, the act of observing the situation of any distant object by the compass, in order to discover the angle which it makes with the nearest meridian; as, at seven in the evening, we set the Tower of Arabia near the port of Alexandria, and it bore S.S.E. distant four leagues by estimation. See BEARING.SETTING also denotes the direction of the wind, current, or sea, but particularly the two latter: as, the tide which sets to the south, is opposed to a swelling sea setting to the north-west.
SETTING, when applied to the sails, is the loosening and expanding them, so as to move a ship along the water, after she had been for some time at rest; or to accelerate her velocity when she is already moving, and perhaps give a new direction to her motion. It is used in contradistinction to taking-in the sails, as loosing or heaving-out is opposed to furling or stowing them.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 260, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1165.html