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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING

PARTING to PAYING-OFF

PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT

PIN of a block to PLANKING

PLAT to POLE-MAST

Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME

PRATIC to PROP
PRATIC
PREVENTER
PRICKING the chart
PRICKING the sails
PRIMING
PRIMING-WIRE or PRIMING IRON
PRIVATEER
PRIZE
PRIZING
PROP

PROTEST to PURSER


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PRICKING the chart

PRICKING the chart, (pointer, Fr.) the act of tracing a ship's course upon a marine chart, by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to discover her present situation.


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