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TENDING
TENDING, the movement by which a ship turns or swings round her anchor in a tide-way, at the beginning of the flood or ebb. Thus, if the flood sets northerly, it is evident that the ship, unless when moored head and stern, will fall into the line of the current, turning her head to the southward. But as the reflux will for the same reason let to the southward, the ship will of necessity turn about at the change of the tide, and carry her head to the northward: and the transition from one situation to the other is called tending or swinging.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 290, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1346.html