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LASH

Volume 11 · 84 words · 1810 Edition

or LACE, in the sea language, signifies to bind and make fast; as, to lash the bonnet to the course, or the drabbler to the bonnets; also the carpenter takes care that the spare yards be lashed fast to the ship's side; and in a rolling sea, the gunners mind that the guns be well lashed, lest they should break loose. Lashers are properly those ropes which bind fast the tackles and the breechings of the ordnance, when hauled or made fast within board.