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| PAINTER | A rope attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast. |
| PALM | A piece of leather fitted over the hand, with an iron for the head of a needle to press against in sewing upon canvass. Also, the fluke of an anchor. |
| PANCH | (See PAUNCH.) |
| PARBUCKLE | To hoist or lower a spar or cask by single ropes passed round it. |
| PARCEL | To wind tarred canvass, (called parcelling,) round a rope. |
| PARCELLING | (See PARCEL.) |
| PARLIAMENT-HEEL | The situation of a vessel when she is careened. |
| PARRAL | The rope by which a yard is confined to a mast at its centre. |
| PART | To break a rope. |
| PARTNERS | A frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump, &c. |
| PAZAREE | A rope attached to the clew of the foresail and rove through a block on the swinging boom. Used for guying the clews out when before the wind. |
| PAUNCH MAT | A thick mat, placed at the slings of a yard or elsewhere. |
| PAWL | A short bar of iron, which prevents the capstan or windlass
from turning back.
To pawl, is to drop a pawl and secure the windlass or capstan. |
| PAY-OFF | When a vessel's head falls off from the wind.
To pay. To cover over with tar or pitch. To pay out. To slack up on a cable and let it run out. |
| PEAK | The upper outer corner of a gaff-sail. |
| PEAK | (See A-PEAK.)
A stay-peak is when the cable and fore stay form a line. A short stay-peak is when the cable is too much in to form this line. |
| PENDANT or PENNANT | A long narrow piece of bunting, carried at the mast-head.
Broad pennant, is a square piece, carried in the same way, in a commodore's vessel. Pennant. A rope to which a purchase is hooked. A long strap fitted at one end to a yard or mast-head, with a hook or block at the other end, for a brace to reeve through, or to hook a tackle to. |
| PILLOW | A block which supports the inner end of the bowsprit. |
| PIN | The axis on which a sheave turns. Also, a short piece of wood or iron to belay ropes to. |
| PINK-STERN | A high, narrow stern. |
| PINNACE | A boat, in size between the launch and a cutter. |
| PINTLE | A metal bolt, used for hanging a rudder. |
| PITCH | A resin taken from pine, and used for filling up the seams of a vessel. |
| PLANKS | Thick, strong boards, used for covering the sides and decks of vessels. |
| PLAT | A braid of foxes. (See FOX.) |
| PLATE | (See CHAIN-PLATE.) |
| PLUG | A piece of wood, fitted into a hole in a vessel or boat, so as to let in or keep out water. |
| POINT | To take the end of a rope and work it over with knittles. (See REEF-POINTS.) |
| POLE | Applied to the highest mast of a ship, usually painted; as, sky-sail pole. |
| POOP | A deck raised over the after part of the spar deck. A vessel is pooped when the sea breaks over her stern. |
| POPPETS | Perpendicular pieces of timber fixed to the fore-and-aft part of the bilge-ways in launching. |
| PORT | Used instead of larboard.
To port the helm, is to put it to the larboard. |
| PORT or PORT-HOLE | Holes in the side of a vessel, to point cannon out of. (See BRIDLE.) |
| PORTOISE | The gunwale. The yards are a-portoise when they rest on the gunwale. |
| PORT-SILLS | (See SILLS.) |
| PREVENTER | An additional rope or spar, used as a support. |
| PRICE | A quantity of spunyarn or rope laid close up together. |
| PRICKER | A small marlinspike, used in sail-making. It generally has a wooden handle. |
| PUDDENING | A quantity of yarns, matting or oakum, used to prevent chafing. |
| PUMP-BRAKE | The handle to the pump. |
| PURCHASE | A mechanical power which increases the force applied.
To purchase, is to raise by a purchase. |
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