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SHOE of the anchor
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SHOE of the anchor
SHOE of the anchor, (foulier, Fr.) a small block of wood, convex on the back, and having a small hole, sufficient to contain the point of the anchor-fluke, on the fore-side. It is used to prevent the anchor from tearing or wounding the planks on the ship's bow, when ascending or deccending; for which purpose the shoe slides up and down along the bow, between the fluke of the anchor and the planks, as being press'd close to the latter by the weight of the former.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 265, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1205.html