GUINDERESSE, a top-rope, used to sway up, or lower the top-mast.

GUIRLANDES, the breast-hooks in a

ship's bow.

GUISPON, a brush used to pay the ship's

bottom with soap, tar, &c.

GUITERNE, a prop or shore, used to support the sheers which are employed to mast a ship, or take out her masts.

GUITRAN, a sort of bitumen, or pitch used to pay a ship's bottom.

GUMES, or GUMERES, a general name given in Provence to all large ropes; as hawsers, cables, &c.

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