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Walk the weather gangway netting
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
A night punishment in a man-of-war for those of the watch who have missed their muster.
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Punishment, английский
- The execution of the sentence against an offender, as awarded by a court-martial, or adjudged by a superior officer.
- Rules of conduct and penalties for flouting them are essential to all forms of society, especially so in ships at sea, which were historically independent of land-based authority, giving ship captains unfettered power over their crews. the earliest extant english-language laws and punishments are the ordinances or usages of the sea promulgated in 1190 by richard lionheart (who himself spoke little or no english) for the english crusader fleet. in part, these stated: he who kills a man on shipboard, shall be bound to
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Walru, английский
[dan. hval-ros]. the trichecus rosmarus, a large amphibious marine animal, allied to the seals, found in the arctic regions. its upper canines are developed into large descending tusks, of considerable value as ivory. it is also called morse, sea-horse, and sea-cow. this animal furnished cook, as well as our latest arctic voyagers, with arctic beef. the skin is of the utmost importance to the esquimaux, as well as to the russians of siberia, &c.
Walk th, английский
Quarter-deck, to. a phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer.
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