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SADDLE to To strike SAIL
SAILING to SALUTE
SALUTE to SCHOONER
SCOOP to SEA-COAST
SEA-CLOTHS to SENDING
SENNIT to SHANK
SHANK-PAINTER to SHEET
SHEET-ANCHOR to SHIP
SHIP to SHIP-SHAPE
SHIPPING to SHOT
SHOT to SLAB-LINE
SLACK-WATER to SNATCH-BLOCK
SNOTTER to SPILL
SNOTTER
SNOW
SOLE
SOUNDING
SPAN
SPAN-SHACKLE
SPARE
PUMP-SPEAR
SPELL
SPILL
SPILLING-LINES to SPRING A LEAK
SPRINGING THE LUFF to SQUALL
SQUARE to STANDING-WATER
STARBOARD to STEM
STEMSON to STEWARD
STIFF to STRAKES or STREAKS
STRAND to STUDDING-SAILS
STUFF to SWEEPER of the sky
SWEEPING to To SWING
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SPELL
SPELL, the period wherein a sailor, or gang of sailors, is employed in a particular exercise, from which they are relieved as soon as the limited time expires. Such are the spells, to the hand-lead in sounding; to the pump; to look out on the mast-head, &c. and to steer the ship; which last, however, is generally called the trick. See STEERING.SPELL also implies the relief, or the return of duty to those services: Thus we lay, spell the pump, spell the lead, &c.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 272, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1240.html