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GLOSSARY
DOG, To: To back the tail of a block several turns FINISH OFF, To: To add the final flourish, as tv
around a stay, with the lay of the rope. whip an end, knot a seizing, etc.
DOUBLINGS: The overlap where two ropes or two FISH, To: To mend broken spars by binding
parts of the same rope parallel each other, as wooden splints along the injured parts.
the shrouds above the deadeyes. The term is FIST, To: To grasp a rope or sail and handle it
usually applied to the overlap of two spars at quickly.
the tops. FLAKE: A single turn, or a tier of turns, in a coil.
DOUBLE, To: To follow the lay of a decorative The dictionary form fake is unknown at sea,
knot an additional circuit, as in a TURK'S- although so spelled by Captain John Smith
HEAD or MA!'IROPE. If there are three parallel ( 1627). Boteler uses the form flake in 1688.
parts (a THREE-PLY KNOT) the sailor de- FLAKING: Coiling in various ways.
scribes it in his own way as having been FLATTEN, To; FLATTEN OUT, To; HAUL FLAT: A
"doubled three times." sheet is hauled flat when it is "sheeted home."
DOUSE, To: To lower and stow a sail hastily. FLEET, To: To come up on a tackle and draw the
DRAW, To (A KNOT): To untie it. blocks apart for another pull.
DRln or PLAY: Margin allowed for stretch or FLEET THE MESSENGER, To: To rearrange the turns
shrinkage. "Allow two feet six inches drift when they have crawled too high on the
for setting up with a lanyard." (Bushell, capstan.
1854. ) FOUL, To: To become entangled with some other
EARINGS: Ropes with which to bend the corners object. A foul cable is caught on the fluke of
of a square sail. There are also reef earings at an anchor, etc.
the ends of reef bands. FOLLOW THE LEAD, To: In TURK'S-HEADS and
EASE or EASE OFF, To: To slacken. other knots, to parallel alongside the first-laid
ELBOW: Cables crossed twice. strand with identical over-and-under.
END: The termination of a rope or the free end FOR A FULL DUE: To set up (rigging) to the de-
leading from the top of a STOPPER KNOT. sired tautness in one uninterrupted haul.
END FOR END: To shift each end of a rope to the Fox: Yarns twisted together in several ways.
position that has been held by the other. FRAPPING: A number of crossing turns in a lashing
ENTER, To: To tuck a strand. or the leads of a tackle, which serve to both
ENTERING ROPE: An old name for a manrope. tighten and secure them. When at anchor
EYE: A spliced, seized or knotted loop. halyards are frapped to prevent slatting at
FAG END: The unfinished end of a rope, left in night.
manufacture. FRAY, To: To fret, ravel, unravel. Generally ap-
FAG, To: To fray. plied to a rope's end.
FAGGED OUT: \Vorn and raveled. FRESHEN, To: To shift a rope so that chafe will
FAIR, To: To smooth out, to cven a knot, splice or come at a new place in a hawse pipe, chock,
sinnet. A shipbuilding term. fair-leader, etc. Usually the order is "Freshcn
FAIR-LEADERS: Boards lashed in the rigging with the hawse."
holes to direct the lead of running rigging. FRET, To: To chafe or wear on the surface
Also various other fittings for similar pur- through rubbing.
poses. FROG KNOT: A flat appliqued knot used decora-
FAKE: See FLAKE. tively on dresses and uniforms. Often called
FALL: (1) The whole rope of a tackle. (2) The "military frogs."
hauling end only of a tackle. FULL: A term sometimes used instead of DOUBLE
F ALL BLOCK: The block in a tackle where energy in describing a knot, as FULL MATTHEW
is first applied. WALKER and FULL CARRICK BEND.
FANCY KNOT: Any decorative or trick knot, even FURL, To: To gather and secure sails with stops,
one that serves a practical purpose. gaskets, etc. Square sails are lifted for this pur-
FAST: Secure. pose; most fore-and-aft sails are lowered; and
FAY, To: A strand is said to be fayed down when a few are brailed to the mast.
it is teased, tapered and laid fiat against a rope, GALL, To: To chafe or fret. Applies particularly
spar or hook for seizing, serving or pointing to hawsers and cables.
over. GANG: A set of rigging for a mast or yard. Also a
FETCH, To: To bring up, to reach the objective. gang of knots in a footrope.
Fm: A long tapering cone, generally of hard GANGING LINE OR A GANGING: A short line at-
wood, for rounding out eyes, cringles, etc. tached at one end to a hook and at the other
Fm OUT, To: To ream or round out an EYE end to the ground line of a trawl.
SPLICE, cringle, clew, eyelet hole, grommet, GASKETS: Of FRENCH or FLAT SINNET, for furling
etc., preliminary to inserting a thimble or sail to yards.
otherwise finishing off. GEAR: The paraphernalia of commercial fishing.
FILLING: Material used in worming a ropc, weav- In amateur fishing "fishing tackle" is called
ing a sword mat, etc. for.
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