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Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..

Backstitch :: Backstitch (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam..

Feller :: Feller (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Navigate :: Navigate (v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship..

Seamen :: Seamen (pl. ) of Seama.

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen..

Seam :: Seam (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.

Unseam :: Unseam (v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

Prick :: Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail..

Finedraw :: Finedraw (v. t.) To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter..

Seamanship :: Seamanship (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship..

Landlubber :: Landlubber (n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.

Needlework :: Needlework (n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress..

Seamster :: Seamster (n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew..

Sack :: Sack (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

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