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A
A-hull
A-lee
Aback
Abaft
Abaft the beam
Abandon Ship
Abeam
Abel Brown
Aboard
About
Above board
Above-water hull
Abreast
Absentee pennant
Accommodation
Accommodation ladder
Act of Pardon / Act of Grace
Admiral
Admiralty
Admiralty law
Adrift
Advance note
Afloat
Aft
Afternoon watch
Aground
Ahead
Ahoy
Ahull
Aid to Navigation
All hands
All night in
Aloft
Alongside
Amidships
Amidships (or midships)
Ammeter
Anchor
Anchor ball
Anchor buoy
Anchor chain or cable
Anchor detail
Anchor light
Anchor rode
Anchor watch
Anchor’s aweigh
Anchorage
Andrew
Anemometer
Anode
Anti-fouling
Apparent wind
Apron
Arc of Visibility
Armament
Armature
Articles of War
As the crow flies
Ashore
Aspect ratio
Astern
ASW
Asylum Harbour
Athwart
Athwart-ships
Athwart, athwartships
Auxiliary engine
Avast
Awash
Aweigh
Aye, aye
Azimuth circle
Azimuth compass
B
Back
Back and fill
Backstays
Backwinding
Baffle plate
Baggywrinkle
Balanced rudder
Ballast
Bank (sea floor)
Banyan
Bar
Bar pilot
Barber hauler
Bare-poles
Barnacle
Barometer
Barrelman
Batten
Beacon
Beam
Beam ends
Bear
Bear down
Bearing
Beating
Beaufort Scale
Becalm
Becket
Bedding compound
Before the mast
Before the wind
Belay
Belaying pins
Below
Bend
Bermudan or Bermudian rig
Bermudan rig
Berth
Best bower (anchor)
Between decks
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
Bight
Bilge
Bilge blower
Bilge keel
Bilged on her anchor
Bill
Bimini
Bimmy
Binnacle
Binnacle list
Bitt, plural Bitts
Bitter end
Bitter, or bitter-end
Bitts
Blade
Blanket
Block
Bloody
Blue Peter
Bluff
Board
Boat
Boat hook
Boatswain or bosun
Bobstay
Bobstays
Bollard
Bolt-rope
Bombay runner
Bonded Jacky
Bonding conductor
Booby
Booby hatch
Boom
Boom crutch
Boom vang (vang)
Booms
Boot top
Bosun’s chair
Bottomry
Bound
Bow
Bow and buttock lines
Bow line
Bow wave
Bow-chaser, chase or chase-piece
Bowline
Bowse
Bowsprit
Box
Box the Compass
Boy seaman
Brace
Brail
Brake
Brake horsepower (bhp)
Brass monkeys or brass monkey weather
Break out
Breaker points
Breast-hooks
Bridge
Bridle
Bring to
Broach
Broaching-to
Broad reach
Brushes
Buffer
Bulkhead
Bull of Barney
Bulwark
Bulwarks
Bumboat
Bumpkin
Bumpkin/Boomkin
Bunk
Bunt
Bunting Tosser
Buntline
Buoy
Buoyed Up
Burdened vessel
Burgee
Butt
Buttock
By
By and Large
By the board
By the lee
By-pass
C
Cabin
Cabin boy
Cable
Cam shaft
Camber (or draught)
Canister
Cap shroud
Cape Horn fever
Capsize
Capstan
Captain’s daughter
Cardinal
Cardinal points
Careen
Careening
Carlings
Carry-away
Carvel
Cast
Cat
Cat boat
Cat Head
Cat o’ nine tails
Cat’s paw
Catalyst
Catamaran
Catboat
Cathode
Caulk
Cavitation
Ceiling
Cell
Centre of effort
Centre of gravity
Centre of lateral resistance
Centreboard
Chafe
Chafing
Chafing Gear
Chain plates
Chain shot
Chain-wale or channel
Chamfer
Chart
Chase guns
Check
Cheeks
Chine
Chine log
Chock-a-block
Chocks
Civil Red Ensign
Clamps
Clawing off
Clean bill of health
Clean slate
Clear
Cleat
Clench
Clew
Clew-lines
Clew-outhaul
Clinker
Close-hauled
Close-reefed
Clove-hitch
Club hauling
Coach roof
Coaming
Coat
Cockpit
Code signals
Coil
Cold plug
Common ground point
Commutator
Companion
Companionway
Compass
Condenser
Conning
Cooling water
Corrector
Corrosion
Counter
Couple
Course
Covering boards
Coxswain or cockswain
Crab
Cradle
Craft
Crance/Crans/Cranze iron
Crazing
Cringle
Cro’jack or crossjack
Crosstree
Crow’s nest
Crutch
Cuddy
Cunningham
Cunningham eye
Curtain
Cut and run
Cut of his jib
Cut-water
Cutter
D
Dagger board
Daggerboard
Davits
Davy Jones’ Locker
Day-sailer
Daybeacon
Dayboard
Dead reckoning
Dead-wood
Deadeye
Deadrise
Deadwood
Deck
Deck supervisor
Deckhead
Decks
Deep six
Departure
Derrick
Deviation
Devil seam
Devil to pay (or Devil to pay, and no pitch hot)
Diagonals
Diamond
Diesel engine
Dinghy
Directional light
Displacement
Displacement hull
Disrate
Distributor
Dock or slip
Docking light
Dog watch
Dog-watches
Doghouse
Dolphin
Dorade ventilator
Double block
Double ender
Double the angle on the bow
Douse
Downhaul
Downwind
Draft
Draught
Draw
Dressing down
Drifter
Drip collector
Drive
Driver
Driver-mast
Dry exhaust
Dry rot
Duck
Dunnage
E
Earing
Earrings
Ebb
Eddy
Electrolysis
Embayed
End plate effect
Engine room
Ensign
Entrance
Epoxy resin
Equinox
Even-keel
Exhaust manifold
Extremis
Eye of a vessel
Eye splice
F
Fag
Fair
Fairlead
Fake
Fall
False keel
Fathom
Feather
Fend off
Fender
Fender board
Fetch
Fid
Fiddle-block
Fife-rail
Figurehead
Filler
Filter
Fireship
First Lieutenant
First Mate
First rate
Fish
Fitting out
Fix
Flag hoist
Flame arrestor
Flare
Flash point
Flatback
Flood
Floor
Floor timbers
Floors
Flotsam
Fluke
Flukes
Flush
Flush deck
Flushing plug
Fly by night
Flying bridge
Following sea
Foot
Footing
Footloose
Footrope
Fore
Fore-and-aft
Fore-and-aft rig
Forecastle
Forefoot
Foremast jack
Forestays
Forward
Foul
Founder
Frame
Frap
Free
Freeboard
Freshen
Full and by
Furl
Futtocks
G
Gaff
Gaff rigged
Galley
Gammon iron
Gangplank
Gangway
Garbled
Garboard
Garboard planks
Garboard-strake
Gaskets
Gear
Gear case
Gel coat
Gel time
Genoa
Ghost
Ghosting
Gimbals
Glass fibre
Global Positioning System
Go about
Gooseneck
Grab rails
Granny knot
Grapeshot
Grapnel
Grating
Grave
Gripe
Grog
Groggy
Grommet
Ground
Ground tackle
Gudgeons
Gunner’s daughter
Gunter rig
Gunwale
Guy
Gybe
H
Hail
Halyard or Halliard
Halyards
Hammock
Hand
Hand Bomber
Hand over fist
Handsomely
Handy billy
Hank
Hanks
Harbor
Hard chine
Hard over
Harden
Hatch
Hatchway, hatch
Haul wind
Hauling part
Hawse pipe
Hawse-hole
Hawsepiper
Head
Head board
Head of navigation
Head sails
Head-to-wind
Headsail
Heat exchanger
Heave
Heave down
Heave short
Heave to
Heaving to
Heavy weather
Heel
Heeling
Helm
Helmsman
Highfield lever
Hitch
Hog
Hogged
Hogging
Hold
Holiday
Holystone
Home
Horn
Horn timber
Horse
Horse (or hawse)
Hot plug
Hounds
Hull
Hull speed
Hydrofoil
Hydroplane
I
Icing
Idlers
In irons
In stays
In stops
In the offing
In-water Survey
Inboard
Inboard-outboard
Inboard-Outboard drive system
Inclinometer
Inglefield clip
Intake manifold
J
Jack
Jack Tar
Jacklines or Jack Stays
Jaws
Jet
Jetsam
Jib
Jibboom
Jibe
Jigger-mast
Joggle
Jollies
Jumper struts
Junk
Jury-mast
K
Kedge
Keel
Keelhauling
Keelson
Kelson
Ketch
Kicker
Kicking strap
Killick
King plank
Kink
Knee
Knees
Knock
Knot
Know the ropes
L
L.O.A.
L.W.L.
Lacing
Ladder
Laker
Laminate
Land lubber
Land-fall
Lanyard
Larboard
Large
Lateral System
Latitude
Lay
Lay down
Lazarette
Leading edge
League
Ledges
Lee
Lee helm
Lee shore
Lee side
Leech
Leeward
Leeway
Let go and haul
Letter of marque and reprisal
Lifeboat
Lifelines
Lift
Limbers, or limber holes
Line
Line squall
Liner
Linkage
List
Loaded to the gunwales
Locker
Log
Log-book
Loggerhead
Longitude
Loom
Loose cannon
Loose footed
Loose-footed
Lower unit
Lubber line
Lubber’s line
Luff
Luff up
Luffing
Lying ahull
M
Magneto
Main
Main saloon
Main sheet
Mainbrace
Mainmast (or Main)
Mainsheet
Mainsheet horse
Make
Mallet
Man of war
Man overboard!
Marconi rig
Marina
Marine borers
Marines Soldiers afloat
Marl
Marlin spike
Marline
Marry
Mast
Mast butt
Mast head
Mast partners
Master
Master-at-Arms
Masthead
Masthead rig
Matelot
Mess
Mess deck catering
Messenger
Midshipman
Midships
Mile
Miss-stays
Mizzen
Mizzen staysail
Mizzenmast (or Mizzen)
Monkey fist
Moor
Mooring
Motor sailer
Motor well
Mould
Moulds
Mouse
N
Navigation
Navigation lights
Navigation rules
Neap tides
Nip
Nipper
No room to swing a cat
O
Oakum
Oar
Off the wind
Offing
Oilskin
On the wind
Oreboat
Orlop deck
Out-haul
Outhaul
Outward bound
Over the barrel
Overbear
Overfall
Overhang
Overhaul
Overhead
Overreach
Overwhelmed
Owner
Ox-Eye
P
Painter
Palm
Parachute flare
Parachute spinnaker
Parallel rules
Parbuckle
Parcel
Parrel
Part
Part brass rags
Partners
Passage
Pay
Pay-off
Paymaster
Peak
Pennant
Pier-head jump
Pilot
Pin
Pinch
Pintle
Pipe (Bos’n’s), or a Bos’n’s Call
Pipe berth
Pipe down
Piping the side
Pitch
Pitch-pole
Pitchpole
Plane
Plot
Plug spanner
Pointing
Polyethylene
Pontoon
Poop deck
Pooped
Port
Port hole
Port tack
Porthole
Position line
Pound
Press gang
Preventer
Preventer (Gybe preventer, Jibe preventer)
Principal Warfare Officer
Privateer
Privileged vessel
Prop rider
Propeller shaft
Propeller walk or prop walk
Prow
Puddening
Pulpit
Purchase
Push pit
Push rod
Pusser
Q
Quarter
Quarter berth
Quarterdeck
Quartering sea
Quayside
Queen’s (King’s) Regulations
R
Rabbet
Rabbett/Rebate
Race
Rack
Radar
Radar reflector
Radio direction finder (RDF)
Rafting
Rail
Raised deck
Rake
Range lights
Ratlines
Reach
Reaching spinnaker
Ready about
Reciprocal bearing
Rectifier
Red Duster
Reduced cat
Reed valves
Reef
Reef points
Reef-bands
Reef-tackles
Reeve
Regatta
Relieving tackle
Render
Rhumb line
Rib
Ribs
Ride at anchor
Rig
Rigger
Rigging
Righting couple
Righting moment
Rigol
Roach
Rocker
Rode
Roll
Roller reefing gear
Rolling-tackle
Rooster rail
Rope
Rope yarn
Rope’s end
Round bilge
Round turn
Round up
Rub rail
Rubbing strake
Rudder
Rules of the road
Rummage sale
Run
Runabout
Running backstay
Running fix
Running lights
Running rigging
S
Sag
Sagging
Sail-plan
Saloon
Saltie
Sampson post
Scandalize
Scantling
Scarf
Schooner
Scow
Scraper
Scud
Scudding
Scull
Scupper
Scuppers
Scuttle
Scuttlebutt
Sea
Sea anchor
Sea chest
Sea kindly
Sea room
Seacock
Seam
Seaman
Seaworthy
Seize
Self-bailing
Self-steering
Self-Unloader
Sennet whip
Serve
Set
Set flying
Sextant
Shackle
Shaft horsepower
Shaft log
Shakes
Shank
Shears
Sheathing
Sheave
Sheep-shank
Sheer
Sheer strake
Sheet
Sheet anchor
Shell
Shift
Shims
Ship
Ship’s bell
Ship’s company
Shoal
Shoe
Shore
Short board
Shorten
Shrouds
Shy
Sick bay
Side lights
Silencer
Sills
Single-handed
Siren
Skeg
Skin friction
Skipper
Skysail
Skyscraper
Slack
Slack water
Slalom
Slip
Sloop
Slop chest
Slot
Slush
Slush fund
Small bower (anchor)
Snatch block
Snow
Snub
Sole
Son of a gun
Sonar
Spanish windlass
Spanker
Spanker-mast
Spar
Spars
Speed curve
Spindrift
Spinnaker
Spinnaker pole
Spitfire jib
Splice
Spray rails
Spreader
Squall
Square meal
Squared away
Squat effect
Stall
Stanchion
Standing
Standing rigging
Starboard
Start
Starter
Starting solenoid
Stay
Staysail
Steerage way
Steering oar or steering board
Stem
Step
Stern
Stern tube
Stern-board
Stern-post
Sternway
Stiff
Stonnacky
Stop valve
Stops
Stow
Strake
Stray-current corrosion
Stringer
Strip
Strum box
Strut
Strut bearing
Studding-sails (pronounced ‘stunsail’)
Supercharger
Surge
Sway
Swell
Swigging
Swinging straps
Swinging the compass
Swinging the lamp
Swinging the lead
T
Tabernacle
Tabling
Tachometer
Tack
Tackle
Taffrail
Tail
Tail off
Tailshaft
Taken aback
Taking the wind out of his sails
Tally
Tang
Teazer
Tender
Tenon
the Ropes’
Thermostat
Thimble
Thole
Three sheets to the wind
Through-hull connection
Thrust bearing
Thwarts
Tide rode
Tie down
Tiller
Timber
Timoneer
Tingle
Toe rail
Toe the line or Toe the mark
Toe-rail
Togey
Toggle
Topgallant
Topmast
Topping lift
Topsail
Topsides
Torque
Torque wrench
Touch and go
Tow
Towing
Traffic Separation Scheme
Transom
Transom cutout
Transom knees
Trapeze
Travellers
Triatic stay
Trice
Trick
Trim
Trip
Trough
Trunk cabin
Trysail
Tuft
Tumblehome
Turn
Turtling
Twin screw
U
Una rig
Unbend
Under the weather
Under way
Underwater hull or underwater ship
Unreeve
Unship
Upper berth
Upper-yardmen
Upwind
V
V-bottom
V-hull
Vang
Vanishing angle
Variation
Varnish
Vector diagram
Veer
Ventilation
W
Wake
Wales
Warp
Watch
Watercraft
Waterlines
Watertight
Waterway
Way
Weather
Weather deck
Weather gage
Weather side
Weatherly
Wedges
Weigh
Weigh anchor
Well found
Wells
Wet exhaust
Wetted surface
Wheel
Wheelhouse
Whip
Whisker-pole
Whiskers
White Horses
Wide berth
Winch
Wind-rode
Windage
Windbound
Windlass
Windward
Wing-and-wing
Work
Y
Yacht
Yankee jib
Yard
Yardarm
Yarr
Yaw
Yawl