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Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Warlock :: Warlock (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.

Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..

Spritefully :: Spriteful (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

Spritsail :: Spritely (a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

Ship :: Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix..

Gobline :: Gobline (n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

Spritsail :: Spritsail (n.) A sail extended by a sprit.

Bel-esprit :: Bel-esprit (n.) A fine genius, or man of wit..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc..

Sprit :: Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

Steeve :: Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving..

Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

Spriteliness :: Spritefully (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

Spriteful :: Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle..

Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..

Water Sprite :: Water sprite () A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water..

Spritely :: Spriteliness (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

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