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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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SQUALL
SQUALL, (raffale, Fr.) a sudden and violent blast of wind, usually cccasioned by the interruption and reverberation of the wind from high mountains. These are very frequent in the Mediterranean; particularly that part of it which is known by the name of the Levant, as produced by the repulsion, and new direction which the wind meets with in its passage between the various islands of the Archipelago.
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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/1260.html