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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
SPILLING-LINES to SPRING A LEAK
SPILLING-LINES
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SPIRKETING
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SPOONING
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SPRING
SPRING A LEAK
SPRINGING THE LUFF to SQUALL
SQUARE to STANDING-WATER
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STEMSON to STEWARD
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SPILLING-LINES
SPILLING-LINES, certain ropes fixed occasionally to the main-sail and fore-sail of a ship, in tempestuous weather, for reefing or furling them more conveniently. They are passed through blocks above the yard, and thence leading down before the sail, come under its bottom, and return upwards behind it to the yard, where they are fastened, so that the sail, by their effort, is closely and immoveably confined to the yard.
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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/1242.html