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| EARING | A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed. |
| EIKING | A piece of wood fitted to make good a deficiency in length. |
| ELBOW | Two crosses in a hawse. |
| ESCUTCHEON | The part of a vessel's stern where her name is written. |
| EVEN-KEEL | The situation of a vessel when she is so trimmed that she sits evenly upon the water, neither end being down more than the other. |
| EUVROU | A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended. (See UVROU.) |
| EYE | The circular part of a shroud or stay, where it goes over a
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Eye-bolt. A long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel's deck or side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to. If there is a ring through eye, it is called a ring-bolt. An Eye-splice is a certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope. ) Eyelet-hole. A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through. The Eyes of a vessel. A familiar phrase for the forward part. |
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