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Cantonments
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Troops detached and quartered in different towns and villages near each other.
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Canva, английский
[from cannabis, hemp]. a cloth made of hemp, and used for the sails of ships. it is purchased in bolts, and numbered from 1 to 8, rarely to 9 and 10. number 1 being the coarsest and strongest, is used for the lower sails, as fore-sail and main-sail in large ships. when a vessel is in motion by means of her sails she is said to be under canvas.
Canting ballast, английский
Is when by a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles to leeward, and prevents the ship from righting.
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