Part 25

Copper

For dressing the Ship's Companies Victuals in, or heating Tar at the Rope Yard.

Iron

For heating Pitch, Tar or Turpentine for the Caulkers paying Ships Bottoms or Sides.

Furring

Is the regular fashioning out any Part when the main Piece of the Material is scanty, either by Defects, Wains, or want of Thickness, then a Piece of the same is put behind it, to make good its Thickness, which is called a Furr.

Furz Faggots

For Breeming Ships when in the Dock to be cleaned, or under Repair.

Futtocks

There are lower, second, third and fourth, and these Timbers being put together, make a Frame-bend.

Gage

When one Ship is to windward of another, she is said to have the Weather Gage of her.

Gages

Are used by the Smiths, for gageing Bolts, so as to make them of a true and right Size.

Gale

When the Wind blows not so hard but that a Ship can carry her Topsails a Trip, (that is, hoisted up to the Highest) then they say it is a Loom Gale. When it blows very strong, they say, it is a stiff, strong, or fresh Gale. When two Ships are near one another at Sea, and there being but little Wind blowing, one of them finds more of it than the other, they say, that the Ship Gales away from the other.

Gallery

Is that beautiful Frame, which is made at the Stern of a Ship without-board, into which there is a Passage out of the Admiral's or Captain's Cabbin, and are for stately Shew and Ornament to the Ship.

Gally

Is a Place in the Cook-Room, where the Grates are set up, and in which they make Fires, for boyling or roasting the Victuals.

Gammoning

Are several turns of Rope taken round the Bowsprit, and reeved through Holes in the Knee of the Head, for the greater Security of the Bowsprit.

Gang

To man the Boat, is to put a Gang of Men (which is a Company) into her, who are called the Boat's Crew.

Gangway

A Deal Plat-form, about three Feet wide in great Ships, ranging in the Wast from the Quarter Deck to the Fore Castle, over the upper Deck Guns, for a free Passage for the Officers and Men, in working the Ship either at Sea or in an Engagement; and so is the Walk made from the Ladder to the Quarter Deck, called the Gangway, and lies even with the Gunwale.

Garboard Strake

Is the Plank next the Keel, one Edge of which is run into the Rabit made in the upper Edge of the Keel on each Side.