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TABLING to TAIL
TAIL-BLOCK to TENDING
TENON to TIDE
TIER to TOGGEL
TIER
TIER of the cable
TIGHT
TILLER
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TIMBERS
TIMBER AND ROOM, or room and space
TIMONEER
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TOGGEL
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TOPPING-LIFT to TRACT-SCOUT
TRACTING to TREE-NAILS
TRESTLE-TREES to TRIP
TRIPPING to TRYING
TUCK to TYE
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TIGHT
TIGHT, (dicht, Dutch) the quality whereby a vessel resists the penetration of any fluid, whether compressing its surface, or contained within it. Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. In both senses it is opposed to leaky, which see.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 292, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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