Part 76

Wood Hard

Live Oak

Is for making Reeming Beetles and Coggs for the Wheels, used for working the Chain Pumps which throws the Water out of the Docks.

Lignum Vitæ

Is used for making Shivers and Pins for Blocks.

Wood & Wood

Are two Pieces of Timber nicely let in or fay'd to each other, that the Wood of one joyns close to the other.

Wood Faggots

Are used in heating the Kilns for stoving Plank, and also the Oven where the Sail-makers stove the Bolt-ropes.

Woodmeil

A hairy coarse Stuff made of Island Wool, and supplied to the Carpenters of Ships at some of his Majesty's Yards for lining of Ports, &c.

Woolding

Signifies the winding of Ropes at certain Distances about a Mast, in order to strengthen it.

Woolers

Double Hand Single Hand

Used at the Rope Yard, and the Men that work with them, are a great Help to those that heave at the Hooks in laying or closing Cables.

Worming

Is twice-laid Cordage, and used for Worming Stays, Shrouds, &c. which is laid betwixt the Strands, in order to strengthen or succour them, or for making Netings on the Quarters, Wast, and Tops of Ships for Shelter to the Men when in Action.

Wrain Staves

Are a Sort of thick Billets, tapered so at each End that they may go into the Ring of the Wrain Bolt, and are for bringing too Planks or thick Stuff to the Compassing Parts of a Ship's Side, &c.

Wreck

Is when a Ship is drove ashore in a Storm, or Perishes on the Sea, and no Man escapes alive out of her.

Yards

New England are wrought in eight squares in the Middle, and from thence in their several Quarters are tapered to the Ends in sixteen Squares, and received by the Inches in Diameter they are in the Slings; the Top and Top-gallant are generally made out of Gottenbro' or Norway Masts, all which are made of suitable Dimensions in Diameter and Length for their proper Sails to be bent to them, which are hoisted up and lowered down by the Jeers, Halyards, Lifts, &c.

Yare

Is a Sea Word for Nimble, Ready, Quick, or Expeditious.

Yarn

That which the Rope-makers spin out of the Hemp for making Cordage, is called Yarn; and when Four hundred Threads are warped off the Winches, and a slight Turn is put into it, it is called a Hall, in order to be Tarred, which is done by four Men running in a large Wheel, that draws it through a Furnace of boiling Tar, and is pressed so very dry by a Nipper, that it will not soil one's Hand.