GLOSSARY. 



Bark. — A three-masted vessel having the foremast and mainmast square 



rigged and the mizzenmast fore-and-aft rigged. 

 Beam.— One of the heavy pieces of timber or iron set transversely across a 



vessel to support the decks and stay the sides; hence, the greatest 



vridth of a vessel. 

 Becket. — A device for holding spars, ropes, etc., in position, as a cleat, strap, 



loop, or rope. 

 Bilge. — The flat or nearly flat part of a ship's bottom, outside or inside. 

 Boom. — A spar holding the foot of a fore-and-aft sail. 

 Boicsprit. — ^A spar projecting forward and usually slightly upward from the 



bow of a vessel, resting upon the stem and the apron, and used to 



support the jib booms. 

 Brig. — A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. 

 Brigantinc. — A two-masted vessel, brig-rigged except that it has a fore-and-aft 



sail, extended by a gaff and boom. 

 Carvel-built. — Built with planks having the edges abutting each other. 

 Catamaran. — A long and narrow raft formed of two or more logs lashed 



together and cut away or turned up so as to form a bow, and sometimes 



carrying sails by aid of an outrigger. 

 Catboat.—A one-masted sailboat having its mast stepped well forward, carry- 

 ing a single fore-and-aft sail extended by a gaff and boom. 

 Centerboard. — A movable vertical device, as of wood, pivoted or hung on a 



rod at the lower forward end and inclosed within the well or slot of 



a watertight compartment in the bottom of a vessel so that it can be 



lowered or raised to lessen the draft. 

 Clinker-built.— Built with planks (or rarely metal plates) having the edges 



overlapping and riveted together. 

 Clipper. — A sailing vessel built for speed, with fine lines; called also clipper 



ship. 

 Cuddy.— A small cabin, as in a lighter or barge. A cook's galley. 

 Dory. — A sharp, flat-bottomed rowboat much used by fishermen, sometimes 



rigged with sails. 

 Foremast. — The foremost mast of a vessel. 

 Gaff.— A spar for extending the upper edge of a staj-less fore-and-aft sail and 



the lower edge of a gaff- topsail. 

 Hermaphrodite brig. — A two-masted vessel, square rigged on the foremast and 



with fore-and-aft rig on the mainmast. 

 Kaiak. — The hunting (or man's) canoe of arctic America, made of sealskins 



stretched over a pointed frame. Called " bidarka " by the Russians of 



Alaska. 

 Keelson. — A beam running lengthwise above the keel of a ship and bolted to 



the middle of the floor frames in order to stiffen the vessel 

 Ketch.— A strongly built two-masted vessel, formerly partly square-rigged for- 

 ward, and often mounting mortars or guns for naval warfare. 

 Mainmast.— The principal mast of a vessel ; the second mast from the bow in 



all vessels except yawls, galliots, and ketches. 

 Mizzeiimast. — The mast next abaft the mainmast. 



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