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WAIST
WAIST, (belle or embelle, Fr.) that part of a ship which is contained between the quarter-deck and fore-castle, being usually a hollow space, with an ascent of several steps to either of those places.When the waist of a merchant-ship is only one or two steps of descent from the quarter-deck, and fore-castle, she is said to be galley-built; but when it is considerably deeper, as with six or feven steps, she is called frigate-built. See the articles DECK, DEEP-WAISTED, and FRIGATE.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 310, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1457.html