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,
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. Minortypographical errors have been corrected without note, whilstsignificant changes have been listed at the end of the text.Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος.The following table has been added for convenience.
THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.
The recent loss of Admiral William Henry Smyth, noticed as it wasby the leading periodicals, will have recalled to many, not onlythe social character and amiable qualities of the compiler of thisWork, but also his distinguished professional career and high reputationas an officer, a navigator, and a seaman, which will be aguarantee for the details of this posthumous publication.
When, in 1858, the Admiral reached the allotted term of three-scoreyears and ten, yet in perfect health, he executed his resolutionof resigning to younger men the posts he held in the active scientificworld, and concentrated his attention, at his quiet and literaryretreat of St. John's Lodge, near Aylesbury, on reducing for thepress the vast amount of professional as well as general