Continuation of the keel aft, sweeping upwards to the deck. Additional panels of cloth set on either side of a square-sail on booms rigged out beyond the yard. Set when running in light winds. The forward lower corner of a sail. Also to alter course by putting the ship's bow through the eye of the wind.
Purchase formed by a rope wove through one or more blocks.
A horizontal bar fitted into the head of the rudder by which the vessel is steered. Platform at the head of a mast, resting on the trestle-trees Topgallant sail. The second mast above the deck, next above the lower mast. In square-riggers, the single or double square sails set above each course. A flat stern.