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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
SQUARE to STANDING-WATER
STARBOARD to STEM
STEMSON to STEWARD
STIFF to STRAKES or STREAKS
STIFF
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STRAND to STUDDING-SAILS
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STINK-POT
STINK-POT, (pot âfeu, Fr.) an earthen jar, or shell, charged with powder, grenadoes, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell. It .is frequently used by privateers, in the western ocean, in the attack of an enemy, whom he designs to board; for which purpose it is furnished with a lighted fuse, at the opening or touch-hole. See BOARDING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 281, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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