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Horse, английский
- A large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing
- 1. attachment of sheets to deck of vessel (main-sheet horse).
- A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending about two or three feet under the yard, for the sailors to tread on while they are loosing, reefing, or furling the sails, rigging out the studding-sail booms, &c. in order to keep the horse more parallel to the yard, it is usually attached thereto at proper distances, by certain ropes called stirrups, which have an eye spliced into their lower ends, through which the horse passes. (see stirrups and foot-ropes.) also, a rope formerly fast to the fore-mast fore-shrouds, with a dead-eye to receive the spritsail-sheet-pendant, and keep the spritsail-sheets clear of the flukes of the anchor. also, the breast-rope which is made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman. also, applied to any pendant and thimble through which running-rigging was led, now commonly called a lizard. also, a thick rope, extending in a perpendicular direction near the fore or after side of a mast, for the purpose of hoisting some yard, or extending a sail thereon; when before the mast, it is used for the square-sail, whose yard is attached to the horse by means of a traveller or bull`s-eye, which slides up and down. when it is abaft the mast, it is intended for the trysail of a snow; but is seldom used in this position, except in those sloops of war which occasionally assume the appearance of snows to deceive the enemy. also, the name of the sawyer`s frame or trestle. also, the round iron bar formerly fixed to the main-rail at the head with stanchions; a fir rail is now used, and the head berthed up. also, in cutters or schooners, one horse is a stout iron bar, with a large thimble, which spans the vessel from side to side close to the deck before the fore-mast. to this the forestaysail-sheet is hauled, and traverses. the other horse is a similar bar abaft, on which the main-boom sheet traverses. also, cross-pieces on the tops of standards, on which the booms or spare-spars or boats are lashed between the fore and main masts. horses are also termed jack-stays, on which sails are hauled out, as gaff-sails. horse is a term of derision where an officer assumes the grandioso, demanding honour where honour is not his due. also, a strict disciplinarian, in nautical parlance. also, tough salt beef—salt horse.—flemish horse is the horse which has an iron thimble in one end, which goes over the iron point of the yard-arm before the studding-sail boom-iron is put on; in the other, a lashing eye, which is secured near the head earing of the top-sail. it is intended for the men at the earing in reefing, or when setting the top-gallant-studding-sails.
- [1] a foot-rope for topmen to stand on while working aloft (furling, reefing, etc.). [2] a rope to keep spritsail sheets clear of the anchor flukes. [3] a rope made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman. [4] a metal rail across the stern of a small sailing vessel to which the sheet of the nearest foreand- aft sail (mainsail in a cutter, schooner or brigantine; mizzen in a ketch) is hooked, enabling the sheet to traverse when tacking. [5] part of the caulking operation which involved forcing oakum between the planks with a caulking iron and mallet, preparatory to paying the seam. [6] to ride uneasily at anchor (see hawse). [7] a period of unpaid work (see dead horse). [8] slang for salted or corned meat (see salt horse).
- To move or raise a heavy piece of machinery or timber by using a pinchbar as a lever. also called pinch.
- A mass of country rock embedded in a vein or other type of mineral deposit.
- An equine usually over 14.2 hands in height.
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