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TABLING to TAIL
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TENON to TIDE
TIER to TOGGEL
TOMPION to TOPPING
TOPPING-LIFT to TRACT-SCOUT
TOPPING-LIFT
TORNADO
TOUCHING
TOUCHING-AT
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TOW-LINE
TOW-ROPE
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TOUCHING
TOUCHING, the state of a ship's sails when they first begin to shiver, with their edges in the direction of the wind. It is either occasioned by a sudden alteration of the ship's course, or by a change of the wind, in which it blows more obliquely along the surface of the sails, instead of falling into their cavities from behind, according to its usual direction. See FULL AND BY.
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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/1379.html