WEATHER-BITT. To take an additional turn with a cable round the windlass-end. WEATHER-ROLL. The roll which a ship makes to windward. WHEEL. The instrument by which a ship is steered; being a barrel (round which the tiller ropes go), and a wheel with spokes. WHELPS. Pieces of iron to keep the chain cable from cutting the windlass. WHIP. A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block. To whip is to hoist by a whip. Also to secure the end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine. Whip-upon-whip. One whip applied to the fall of another. WINCH. A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with a wheel or crank at the end. A small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spun-yarn. WINDLASS. The machine used in merchant vessels to weigh the anchor by. WIND-RODE. The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current. (See TIDE-RODE.) WING. That part of the hold or between-decks which is next the side. WINGERS. Casks stowed in the wings of a vessel. WING-AND-WING. The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her foresail hauled over on one side, and her mainsail on the other. WITHE, OF WYTHE. An iron instrument fitted on the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boom or mast is rigged out and secured, as a cap. WOODLOCK. A piece of wood bolted to the rudder beneath one of the pintles, to prevent the rudder unshipping. WOOLD. To wind a piece of rope round a spar. WORK-UP. To draw the yarns from old rigging and make them into spun-yarn, foxes, sennit, &c. Also a phrase for keeping a crew constantly at work upon needless matters, and in all weathers, and beyond their usual hours, for punishment. WORM. To fill up between the lays of a rope with small stuff wound round spirally. Stuff so wound round is called worming. WRAIN-BOLTS. Bolts that secure the planks to the timbers. WRAIN-STAVES. Strong pieces of plank used with the wrain-bolts. WRING. To bend or strain a mast by setting the shrouds up too taut. YACHT. (Pronounced yot.) A vessel of pleasure or state. YARD. A long piece of timber, tapering slightly towards the ends, and hung by the centre to a mast, to spread the square sails ur YARD A-BOX is the sail attached to the yard being aback to act on the vessel's head, turning it away from the wind. YARD-ARM. The extremities of a yard. YARD-ARM AND YARD-ARM. The situation of two vessels, lying alongside one another, so near that their yard-arms cross or touch. YARN. (See ROPEYARN.) YAW. The motion of a vessel when, from bad steering, she goes off from her course. YAWL. A cutter; a small fishing vessel. YEOMAN. A man employed in a vessel to take charge of a storeroom; as, boatswain's yeoman, the man that has charge of the stores of rigging, &c. YOKE. A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat's rudder, with a rope (yoke-line) attached to each end, by which the boat is steered. NOTICE TO YACHTSMEN. Yacht Clubs have become so numerous since the first publication of THE SAILOR'S SEA-BOOK, that no adequate information relating to them could now be given to Yachtsmen, except in a work specially devoted to their interests; such a work exists in HUNT'S UNIVERSAL YACHTING LIST, to which we refer our readers. A new edition, giving the latest rules, regulations, and movements of Yacht Clubs and of the yachting world, is published every year, at the beginning of the Yachting Season. THE END. PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD, LONDON. |