Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thick pad of rope-yarns, oakum, etc., covered with a mat or canvas, and tapering from the middle toward the ends, used as a fender on the bow of a boat. When rope cables were used, the covering of soft rope and canvas on the ring of an anchor was so called. Also called
pudding .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.
- n. A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.
Examples
“These fellows, as well as thieves generally, are said to have a method of quieting the fiercest watch-dogs by throwing them a narcotic ball, which they call "puddening the animal.”
“No, that would not exactly tell; I shall pick my own work, and that's where I can bring my tarry trousers to an anchor -- mousing the mainstay, or puddening the anchor, with the best of any.”
Lists
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
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Master and Commander
An Aubrey/Maturin list.
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chained_bear "Puddening of a Boat's Stem, is a quantity of rope-yard pointed and placed firmly on the stem of the boat as a kind of fender....
"Puddening the Ring of an Anchor, is the act of well parcelling it with tarred canvas, and then warping it round with twice-laid-stuff....
"Puddening of a Mast, a thick wreath, or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, pointed all over, and fastened about the mainmast and foremast of a ship...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 359–360
See also dolphin of the mast. Oct 12, 2008