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Caury
Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Worm-eaten.
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Cavalier, английский
In fortification, a work raised considerably higher than its neighbours, but generally of similar plan. its object is to afford a plunging fire, especially into the near approaches of a besieger, and to shelter adjacent faces from enfilade. its most frequent position in fortresses is at the salient of the ravelin, or within the bastion; and in siege-works in the advanced trenches, for the purpose of enabling the musketry of the attack to
Caulking of a ship, английский
Forcing a quantity of oakum, or old ropes untwisted and drawn asunder, into the seams of the planks, or into the intervals where the planks are joined together in the ship`s decks or sides, or rends in the planks, in order to prevent the entrance of water. after the oakum is driven in very hard, hot melted pitch or rosin is poured into the groove, to keep the water from rotting it. among the ancients the first who made use of pitch in caulking were the inhabitants of ph?acia, afterwards called corfu. wax and rosin appear to have been commonly used before that period; and the poles still substitute an unctuous clay for the same purpose for the vessels on their navigable rivers.
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