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chained_bear
"A bar of iron fastened at its extremities to the deck, and upon which the sheets of some fore and aftsails, traverse, when tacking, particularly the fore-sail of a sloop, hoy, and cutter." —Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815
Oct 10, 2008
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chained_bear "A bar of iron fastened at its extremities to the deck, and upon which the sheets of some fore and aft sails, traverse, when tacking, particularly the fore-sail of a sloop, hoy, and cutter."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815 Oct 10, 2008