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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a tackle to spread the clues of a foresail when sailing large or before the wind.
- To extend (the foot of the foresail of a square-rigged vessel) by hauling its clue out to an eye on the lower studdingsail-boom.
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chained_bear commented on the word passaree
"...now she was to have the breeze on her quarter, or very near, and he set studdingsails aloft and alow, with a ringtail to the driver, bonnets, of course, and save-alls under the studdingsails and even the driver-boom, brought the foretack to the cathead with a passaree, cast off the maintack and hauled the weather-clew of the maincourse to the yard."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal, 98
I hope he didn't forget to gluppit the prawling strangles too, while he was at it.
February 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word passaree
Not to mention manning the fore clew-garnets.
February 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word passaree
"... a rope formerly used to confine the tacks down to the ship's side, when she is going large in light breezes."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 334
October 12, 2008