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Holystone
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- A chunk of sandstone used to scrub the decks. the name comes from both the kneeling position sailors adopt to scrub the deck (reminiscent of genuflection for prayer), and the stone itself (which resembled a bible in shape and size).
- [1] wooden decks were cleaned by scrubbing with sandstone blocks which were popularly believed to have been named holy because they brought seamen to their knees. in fact they were called holey because they are full of cavities. seamen called the bigger blocks bibles and the little ones, used to scrub narrow spaces, prayer-books. [2] to scour the deck with such a stone.
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Genuflection, английский
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Merchant mariner, английский
- A civilian officer or sailor who serves in the merchant marine (q.v.). sometimes such personnel are incorrectly called "merchant marines," but both merchant mariners and marines frown on this term; although merchant mariners are part of the merchant marine, they are civilians and are not in any way marines (q.v.), which are a specialized type of military personnel .
- A member of a merchantman’s crew. it is little appreciated that merchant mariner was one of the most hazardous occupations in world war ii. although technically non-combatant, the u.s. merchant marine and british merchant navy each suffered a higher overall casualty rate than their respective armies, navies, and air forces.
Tye, английский
- A chain or rope used for hoisting or lowering a yard. a tye runs from the horizontal center of a given yard to a corresponding mast and from there down to a tackle. sometimes specifically called a chain tye or a rope tye.
- A runner of thick rope or chain, which forms part of the purchase used for hoisting the top-sail and top-gallant yards.
- [1] a rope forming part of a purchase for hoisting an upper yard by its center, using the halyard tackle. [2] a pigtail.
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