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HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS

HARBOUR to HAWSE

HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE

HEAD-SAILS to HEAVING-out

HEAVING-short to HIGH AND DRY

HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD

HOLD to HORSE

HOUNDS to HURRICANE
HOUNDS
HOUSED
HOWKER
HOUSING, or HOUSE-LINE
HOY
HULK
HULL
HULL a ship
HULL-to
HURRICANE


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HULL

HULL, (corps d'un vaisseau, Fr.) the frame, or body of a ship, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging: it is usually expressed of a ship either before she is furnished with masts, &c. or after she is dismasted and stripped of the aforesaid machinery.


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