in a ship, are frames made of trucks, ribs, and ropes, which having both their ends fastened to the yards, are so contrived as to go round about the masts, that the yards by their means may go up and down upon the mast. These also, with the breasting-ropes, fall on the yards to the masts.

PARRET or PEDDRED river, has its rise in the southern part of Somersetshire in England. Near Langport it is joined by the Orford, augmented by the Ivel; and, about four miles from this junction, it is joined by the Tone or Thone, a pretty large river, rising among the hills in the western parts of this county. About two miles below the junction of the Tone, the Parret receives another considerable stream; and, thus augmented, it passes by the town of Bridgewater, and falls into the Bristol channel in Bridgewater-bay.