Vulgar words in The Sailor's Word-Book - An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. (Page 1)
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Thus in Ben Jonson's "The Devil is an Ass"-- "He is my wardrobe-man, my _acater_, Cook, butler, and steward."
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When a vessel is not strongly built there is always a tendency in the greater section to lift, and the lower sections to fall; hence the fore and after ends droop, producing arching, or _hogging_ (which see).
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A term applied to all pieces of ordnance which are of unusual or irregular proportions: the government bastard-cannon had a 7-inch bore, and sent a 40-lb.
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BASTARD-MACKEREL, OR HORSE-MACKEREL.
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BASTARD-PITCH.
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It is then called _bastard-pitch_.
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A north-country term for the fagged end of a rope.
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In a transverse section of a tree, two different grains are seen: those running in a circular manner are called the _silver grain_; the others radiate, and are called _bastard grain_.--_Grain_ is also a whirlwind not unfrequent in Normandy, mixed with rain, but seldom continues above a quarter of an hour.
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JACKASS PENGUIN.
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A bird, apt while on shore to throw its head backwards, and make a strange noise, somewhat resembling the braying of an ass.
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The operation of unlaying and tapering the end of a rope, and weaving some of its yarns about the diminished part, which is very neat to the eye, prevents it from being fagged out, and makes it handy for reeving in a block, &c. POINT OF THE COMPASS.
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The _pump sucks_ is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there comes up nothing but froth and wind, with a whistling noise, which is music to the fagged seaman.
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(_See_ SPUNK.)
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To bend or give way from heavy weight; to press down towards the middle; the opposite of _hogging_.
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SEA-CUNNY.
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Hence the term donkey and jackass frigates, _Athol_ and _Niemen_ to wit.
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P. 15, ACATER, 'Devil of an Ass' amended to _The Devil is an Ass_.
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P. 84, BASTARD-MACKEREL, 'Scomberidæ' amended to _Scombridæ_.