THE READERS’ DICTIONARY OF SAILING SHIP TERMINOLOGY ___________________________________________________________________________ THE READERS’ DICTIONARY OF SAILING SHIP TERMINOLOGY ___________________________________________________________________________ 108 109 THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF PETER TURNER THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF PETER TURNER ©2024 If any reader can provide information, please send to galf@abandos.com If any reader can provide information, please send to galf@abandos.com drink served on watch, made from melted solid slabs of chocolate. Labour – (v) To pitch and roll heavily. Labourer - Labours - Of Ship's Timbers. Laced mainsail – A fore-and-aft mainsail attached to the mast by a continuous lacing spiralling around the mast and through eyelets in the luff of the sail. Lacing – Fastening a sail to its mast, yard or gaff, by spiralling through eyelet holes in the sail and around the mast or spar. Lacing a bonnet - SMS Ladder - Ladder Lane - To take a walk up Ladder Lane and down Hemp Street was seamen’s slang for to hang. Laden – An old term for a fully loaded ship. Lade-net – A net attached to a hoop on a long handle, with which fish that have fallen out of the fishing net are picked up. Also called a dydle. Laden in bulk – Said of a ship loaded with a bulk cargo in all holds. Lading Charges - Ladle - (tge) Ladrones - Chinese pirates. Lady of the gunroom – 1. The night watchman of the gunroom. In the Royal Navy it became the slang term for the crewman in charge of the gunner’s stores. 2. The youngest Inferior Officer, whose duty it was to look after the children. Lady's hole - A small store room or compartment. Lady's ladder - Said of shrouds in which the ratlines are too closely rigged. Lagan – 1. Any article thrown overboard with a buoy fastened to it, to enable it to be found and recovered later, from the French word lagand for lying. 2. An article lying inside a sunken ship or on the sea bottom. Lagoon - Laid by the heels - Put in leg-irons, eventually came to mean arrested. Laid up – The state of a vessel that has been unrigged and her gear removed. Laid up for us - Chased Lamb's wool sky - A collection of white orbicular clouds. Lamp-glass - Magnifying lens used to concentrate light. Lamps - 1 Eyes. 2 To lamp someone was to hit them. Lamp trimmer – The petty officer under the boatswain who duty it was to maintain all the oil lamps on board. Lance - Whaler's spear. Used to finish off the whale after it had tired itself out. Landboard – The side of a ship that was moored to the land for loading and unloading. Led to ‘larboard’, which became ‘port’, from the same tradition and which was less liable to confusion with ‘starboard’ during orders for evolutions. Land breeze - An offshore wind. Landfall – The first sight of land after a seagoing voyage. Land Ho! - The lookout's call under obvious circumstances. Landing - The overlapping parts of strakes or planks in a boat. Landing strake - The second strake down from the gunwale. Landlocked – Said of a harbour from which the sea is not visible. Landlubber - Seamen's derogatory name for a landsman, sometimes also applied to an unhandy sailor. Landmark - Any conspicuous object on land, visible from the sea. Landmen - See Landsmen. Land mile - A statute mile, 5,280 feet. Land-Rat - Dockside criminal or tradesman seeking to relieve Seamen of some or all of their earnings. Lands - The planking overlaps in clinker built boats. Land-Shark - 1. Lawyers. Considered unlucky to have them aboard. 2. Similar to Land-Rat, but worse. cf Crimp. Landskip - Dialect term for a landscape picture. Landsman - A crewmember who had volunteered without training as a seaman. ‘Volunteered’ was a somewhat elastic term in this context. Approximately one third of a crew started a voyage as a landsman. For a landsmen to become Ordinary usually took about a year, and to become Able usually took at least two years. Landward – Towards the land. Also shoreward. Lanes - Open tracks of water through ice. Also Leads. Langridge - Languet, languette - The small ear of a sword handle that overhangs the scabbard. Laniard, lanierd - See lanyard. Lanyard - 1 The short lines securing the shrouds and stays. 2 Any short line fastened to something to secure it or to help with handling it, such as a line tied to flintlock on a cannon. Also sometimes called laniard, or lanierd. Lanyard-thimble - Thimbles used in place of a heart on small stays or hand lines, etc., which are set up with lanyards. Lap joint - A joint between plates in which their edges overlap. Lapstrake - Clinker built. Larboard - The left side of ship looking forward. Its name was changed to 'Port side', in the British Navy, by Admiralty Order on 22 November 1844. From the fact that the larboard side of the gundeck was traditionally kept clear for officers' promenade while in port, and at other times. Larboard Watch - Larbowlines, larbolins - Seamen of the larboard watch. See starbolins. Large – Sailing with the wind abaft the beam but not dead aft. Large wind - See Large. Lascar - Indian native seamen. Lash and Carry - (Am) Lash Up - 1. A temporary or bad job. 2. To stand treat. Lash1 L Lanyards and Luggers
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