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TABLING to TAIL
TAIL-BLOCK to TENDING
TENON to TIDE
TIER to TOGGEL
TOMPION to TOPPING
TOMPION
TONNAGE
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TOP-BLOCK
TOP-CHAIN
TOP-LANTHORN
TOP-MAST
TOP-ROPE
TOP-SAILS
TOPPING
TOPPING-LIFT to TRACT-SCOUT
TRACTING to TREE-NAILS
TRESTLE-TREES to TRIP
TRIPPING to TRYING
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TOPPING
TOPPING, (apiquer, Fr) the act of pulling one of the extremities of a yard higher than the other, by slackening one of the lifts, and pulling upon the opposite one, so as to place the yard at a greater or lesser obliquity with the mast.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 295, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1376.html