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.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sailor's Word-Book, by William Henry Smyth This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: 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. Author: William Henry Smyth Editor: Sir Edward Belcher Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #26000] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SAILOR'S WORD-BOOK *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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. BY THE LATE ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c. REVISED FOR THE PRESS BY VICE-ADMIRAL SIR E. BELCHER, K.C.B., &c. &c. LONDON: BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH. 1867. GLASGOW: W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS, VILLAFIELD. Transcriber's Note Dialect, variant and obsolete spellings remain as printed.