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Stay: Any piece of standing rigging. More mortise, to make a joint. At the butt of a wooden
commonly, any piece of fore-and-aft standing mast, the tenon fits into a mortise in the mast step.
rigging. (In aluminum masts, the reverse is usually the
case.)
Strand: A component piece of a rope, itself
composed of two or more yarns twisted together. Thimble: A grooved metal fitting to protect the
eye of a rope or wire rope.
Strop: A grommet or short pendant seized around
a block, mast, or boom, by means of which a Thoroughfoot: A tangle in a tackle due to a
purchase is applied, or to which a shroud is block’s upsetting.
attached.
Thwapping: The auditory water torture of
Surge, to: To slack away on a line under strain by halyards slapping on masts. A sharp knife is an
allowing it to slide in controlled fashion over the effective anti-thwapping device.
surface of a pin, winch, windlass, etc.
Toggle: An end fitting to standing or running
Swage: A fitting into which a wire-rope end rigging, providing a universal joint. Toggles are
is inserted. The rope is secured there by the generally attached to a tang or clevis pin, and
application of tremendous pressure to all sides of secured by a cotter ring or cotter pin.
the fitting.
Turn: One round of a rope on a pin, cleat, or rail;
Sweat up, to: To pull on a taut rope at right angles one round of a coil.
to its length, feeding the slack so gained to the
tailer. Sweating up is a dynamic application of Turnbuckle: A device attached to a wire rope for
frapping. applying tension. It consists of a barrel and right-
and left-threaded bolts.
Tackle: A mechanism of blocks and rope for
increasing power. The ancient pronunciation Two-blocked: Said of an exhausted purchase, the
“tay'ckle” is still preferred among riggers and blocks of which are jammed against one another.
many sailors. Weed, to: To clear rigging of stops, rope yarns, etc.

Tag line: A rope used to prevent the rotation or Whip, to: To bind the end of a rope to prevent
swinging of a load. fraying.
Tail: To take up slack in a load-bearing line and Wire rope: A plurality of wire strands helically
subsequently maintain the advantage with the laid about a longitudinal axis.
aid of one or more round turns on a pin or winch.
The slack is usually fed to the tailer by another With the lay: Ahead and to the right or clockwise
crewmember. with right-laid rope; to the left or counterclockwise
with left-laid rope. To go “with the lay” or “against
Tail on: An order to grasp and haul. the lay” is to travel both linearly and axially.
Taper: To diminish the diameter of a rope or a Worm, to: To fill the seams of a rope with spun
splice in a rope by removing yarns at staggered yarns or marline.
intervals over a given length.
Yarn: A number of fibers twisted together.
Tenon: A projection on the end of a structural
member, shaped for insertion into a cavity called a

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