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SADDLE to To strike SAIL
SAILING to SALUTE
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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
STRAND to STUDDING-SAILS
STRAND
STRETCHER
STRETCHING
To STRIKE
STRING in ship-building
To STRIP the masts
STROKE
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STROP
STUDDING-SAILS
STUFF to SWEEPER of the sky
SWEEPING to To SWING
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STROP
STROP, (entrope, Fr.) a piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and used to surround the body of a block so that the latter may be hung to any particular station about the mast, yards, or rigging. Thus, fig. 37. and 38. in plate II. represent two block-strops of different sorts. See BLOCK and EYE.STROPS are also used occasionally to fasten upon any large rope, for the purpose of hooking a tackle to the eye, or double part of the strop; in order to extend, or pull with redoubled effort, upon the same rope; as.in setting-up the rigging, where one hook of the tackle is fixed in a strop applied to the particular shroud, and the other to its laniard. See the.article LANIARD.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 283, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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