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The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the running rigging and bending sails, rigging brigs, yachts and small vessels, more. 17 plates.

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• Part I Alphabetical Explanation Of The Terms And Phrases Used In Rigging
• Abaft or Aft
• Abaft the Beam
• Aboard or Inboard
• Abreast
• Ahead
• Aloft
• Aloof
• Amidships
• Anchor-stock tackle
• An-end
• Athwart
• Avast
• Awning
• Back-stays
• Beckets
• Belaying
• Bending
• Bends
• Bight
• Binding
• Bitts
• Bitt the cable
• Blocks
• Block and block
• Boarding-netting
• Boatskids or Boomskids
• Bobstay
• Bolsters
• Bolt-rope
• Booms
• Boom-irons
• Boom tackle or boom jigger
• Bowgrace
• Bowsing
• Bowlines
• Bowline tackle
• Bowsprit
• Bowsprit-netting
• Brace
• Brails
• Breast-rope
• Breastwork
• Breeching
• Bridles
• Bull's-eye
• Bumpkins or Boomkins
• Bumpkin shrouds
• Buntlines
• Buoy
• Buoy-rope
• Burton tackles
• Button and loop
• Buttons
• Cable
• Cablet
• Cant
• Caps
• To cap a rope
• Capsize
• Capstan or capstern
• To carry away
• Cast-off
• Catharpins
• Catfall
• Catheads
• Chain cables
• Chain plates
• Chain sheets
• Chain slings
• Cheerly
• Chestrees
• Choaking the luff
• Chock-a-block
• Chocks of the rudder
• Clamp
• Clap on
• Cleats
• Clinch
• Clue of a sail
• Clue-lines
• Coat
• Coil
• Coin or quoin
• Collar
• Come home
• Come-up the capstan
• Come-up the tackle-fall
• Contline
• Cordage
• Creeper
• Cringles
• Crotchets
• Crosstrees
• Crow-foot
• Crown of the cable
• Crowning
• Crutch
• Cut-and-run
• Davit
• Dead-eyes
• Dead-lights
• Derrick
• Dismantle
• Driver or spanker-boom
• Dolphin
• Dolphin-striker
• Down-hauler
• Down-haul tackle
• Earings
• "Ease-off, or veer-away"
• Elbow in the hawse
• End-for-end
• Ensign
• Equip
• Eye of a shroud
• Eyelet-holes
• Fag-end of a rope
• Fake
• Fall
• Fancy lines
• Fangs or lee-fangs
• Fenders
• Fathom
• Fid
• Fids
• Fish
• Flag-staff
• Fleeting
• Fly of a flag
• Flying of sails
• Fore-braces
• Foul anchor
• Foul hawse
• Frapping
• Frapping a ship
• Freshen-hawse
• Furling
• Furling-line
• Futtock plate
• Futtock shroud
• Futtock stave
• Gaff
• Gammoning
• Gangway
• Gaskets
• Girtlines
• Goose-neck
• Grapnel
• Gripes
• Grommet
• Ground-tackle
• Gudgeons or braces
• Gun-slings
• Guys
• Hag's-teeth
• Halliards
• Handsomely
• Handspike
• Hanks
• To Haul
• Hawse-bags
• Hawser
• Head-ropes
• Heart
• Heaver or woolder
• Heaving
• Helm
• Hinges
• Hitch
• Hoist of a flag or sail
• Hoisting
• Holding-on
• Hook
• Hoops
• Horns
• Horse
• Horses
• Hounds
• To jamb
• Jaws
• Jeers
• Jewel blocks
• Jib-guys
• Jigger
• Jigger tackle
• Inhauller
• Junk
• Keckling
• Kevels
• Kinking
• Knittles or nettles
• Knot
• To knot
• Lacing
• Laniards
• Lashers
• Lashing
• Lashing of booms
• Lanunch ho!
• Leading-part
• Leech lines
• Leech rope
• Legs
• Life lines
• Lifts
• Lines
• Lizard
• Loop
• Loosing the sails
• Luff tackle
• Main tackle
• Man-ropes
• Marline spike
• Martingale
• Masts
• Mast coats
• Mat
• Maul
• Meshes
• Messenger
• Mousing a hook
• Nave-line
• To nipper or nip
• Nippers
• Norman
• Oakum
• Overhaul
• Outhauler
• Outrigger
• Painter
• Panch
• Parbuckle
• Parcelling
• Parral
• Parral trucks
• Passaree
• To pay out
• Peak-halliards
• Pendants
• Pins
• Pointing
• Points
• Port pendants
• Preventer
• Preventer stays
• Purchase
• Quarter tackles
• Rack
• Racking a tackle
• Ratlines
• To rattle down the shrouds
• Reef
• Reef tackle
• To reeve
• Relieving tackles
• Ribs of a parral
• Ridge tackle to rig
• Rigging
• Rigging-house or loft
• Rolling tackle
• Rope-bands
• Ropes
• Ropeyarn
• Rough-tree rail
• Round-up
• Rounding
• Round-turn
• To rowse
• Rudder-coats
• Rudder tackles
• Runner
• Runner tackles
• Running-rigging
• Saddles for booms
• Sciatic-stay
• Seizing
• Middle-seizing
• Selvagee
• To serve
• Service
• Serving mallet
• Setting the sails
• Setting-up
• Shackles
• Shank-painter
• Sheave
• Sheep-shank
• Sheers
• Sheet
• Shifting backstay tackles
• Ship-shape
• Shrouds
• Slabline
• Slack
• Slack or a rope
• Slack rigging
• Slings
• Slip-knot
• Slip-rope
• To slue
• Snaking
• Snaking the stays
• Snotter
• Spans
• Spanning of booms
• Spanning of runners
• Spanish windlass
• Spars
• Spilling lines
• Splicing
• Spring stays
• Sprit
• Spunyarn
• Square-rigged
• Square-sail boom
• Staff
• Stage
• Standing-part
• Standing-rigging
• Standing part of a rope
• Stanchions of the nettings
• Stays
• Stay-sail stay tackles
• Stay tackles
• Stern-fast
• Stirrups
• Stock-tackle
• Stools
• Stop
• Stoppers
• Strand
• Stranded
• Straps
• To surge
• Swab
• Swagging-off
• To sway
• Swifter
• Swifters
• Swiftering of shrouds
• Swivel
• Swivel-hook
• Tack
• Tack of a flag
• Tack tackle
• Tackle
• Tail
• Tarpauling
• Thimbles
• Throat
• Throat-brails
• Throat-halliards
• Thrumming
• Tiller-rope
• Timenoguy
• Toggle
• Top
• Top-rope
• Top-rope pendants
• "Top-tackle, or top-rope tackles"
• Topping
• Topping-lift
• Towline
• Train tackle
• Traveller
• "Traverse horses, or jackstays"
• Treenails
• Trestle-trees
• Tricing-line
• Trucks
• Truss
• Truss tackles
• Tie
• Vangs
• To veer away
• Viol or voyl
• To underrun a tackle
• Uphroe
• Wall knot
• Warp
• "Warp, or woof"
• Warp of shrouds
• Whip
• Whipt
• Whip upon whip
• Winding-tackle
• Winding-tackle pendant
• Windlass
• Woolding
• Worming
• Yards
• Yard tackles
• Yarn