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Fiddler
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See fifer & fiddler. fiddler’s green: according to an old jingle, this is a nautical nirvana where dead seamen find unlimited rum, tobacco, and compliant women in a paradise of perfect bliss and beauty. now fiddler’s green is the place i’ve heard tell where sailormen go when they don’t go to hell just tell me old shipmates, i’m taking a trip mates and i’ll see them some day in fiddler’s green various superstitions say that their spirits are carried there by soul ships from european waters, and by birds of the petrel family from more distant seas. (see albatross, stormy petrel.) fid-hole: an opening in the heel of a mast or spar, through which a fid is passed to rest on the trestletrees on either side.
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Trestletrees, английский
A pair of timbers or metal shapes sitting on the hounds and serving to support the crosstrees of a sailing ship’s mast.
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Fidley, английский
[1] an open ventilation area above boilers or machinery spaces. [2] the grating covering such an area. [3] the steel frame around a ladder or hatch (also fiddley).
Fiddlehead, английский
- A billethead shaped like the scroll at the head of a violin. used when there is no figurehead (cf. scrollhead).
- Резное украшение на носу корабля
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