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From Complete Book of The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
By Unknown Author
AN ALPHABETICAL DIGEST
OF
NAUTICAL TERMS,
INCLUDING SOME MORE ESPECIALLY MILITARY AND SCIENTIFIC, BUT USEFUL TO SEAMEN;
AS WELL AS ARCHAISMS OF EARLY VOYAGERS, ETC.
BY THE LATE
REVISED FOR THE PRESS BY
LONDON:
BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.
1867.
GLASGOW:
W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS,
VILLAFIELD.
Transcriber's Note
Dialect, variant and obsolete spellings remain as printed. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant changes have been listed at the end of the text. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος. The following table has been added for convenience.
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The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc., Part 1
AN ALPHABETICAL DIGEST
OF
NAUTICAL TERMS,
INCLUDING SOME MORE ESPECIALLY MILITARY AND SCIENTIFIC, BUT USEFUL TO SEAMEN;
AS WELL AS ARCHAISMS OF EARLY VOYAGERS, ETC.
BY THE LATE
REVISED FOR THE PRESS BY
LONDON:
BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.
1867.
GLASGOW:
W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS,
VILLAFIELD.
Transcriber's Note
Dialect, variant and obsolete spellings remain as printed. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant changes have been listed at the end of the text. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος. The following table has been added for convenience.
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