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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
SPILLING-LINES to SPRING A LEAK
SPRINGING THE LUFF to SQUALL
SPRINGING THE LUFF
SPRING-TIDE
SPRIT
SPRITSAIL
SPRITSAIL-TOPSAIL
SPUNGE
SPUN-YARN
SPURS of the beams
SQUADRON
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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SPRITSAIL-TOPSAIL
SPRITSAIL-TOPSAIL, (perroquet de beaupre, Fr.) a sail extended above the former, by a yard which hangs across the jib-boom. The lower corners of this sail are hauled home to the spritsail-yard-arms; after which the sail is drawn out towards the extremity of the boom, in light winds, as any other topsail-yard is hoisted upon its mast.Formerly the spritsail-top-sails were set on a mast, which was erected perpendicularly on the end of the bowsprit: but this method has of late been justly rejected as inconvenient and dangerous to the bowsprit, although serviceable in light breezes.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 275, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1255.html