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MADE	A made mast or block is one composed of different pieces. A ship's lower mast is a made spar, her topmast is a whole spar.
MALL or MAUL	(Pronounced mawl .) A heavy iron hammer used in driving bolts. (See TOP-MAUL.)
MALLET	A small maul, made of wood; as, caulking-mallet; also, serving-mallet , used in putting service on a rope.
MANGER	A coaming just within the hawse hole. Not much in use.
MAN-ROPES	Ropes used in going up and down a vessel's side.
MARL	To wind or twist a small line or rope round another.
MARLINE	Small two-stranded stuff, used for marling. A finer kind of spunyarn. (Pronounced mar-lin .)
MARLING-HITCH	A kind of hitch used in marling.
MARLINGSPIKE	An iron pin, sharpened at one end, and having a hole in the other for a lanyard. Used both as a fid and a heaver.
MARRY	To join ropes together by a worming over both.
MARTINGALE	A short perpendicular spar, under the bowsprit-end, used for guying down the head-stays. (See DOLPHIN-STRIKER.)
MAST	A spar set upright from the deck, to support rigging, yards and sails. Masts are whole or made .
MAT	Made of strands of old rope, and used to prevent chafing.
MATE	An officer under the master.
MAUL	(See MALL.)
MEND	To mend service , is to add more to it.
MESHES	The places between the lines of a netting.
MESS	Any number of men who eat or lodge together.
MESSENGER	A rope used for heaving in a cable by the capstan.
MIDSHIPS	The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel. (See AMID-SHIPS.)
MISS-STAYS	To fail of going about from one tack to another.
MIZZEN-MAST	The aftermost mast of a ship. The spanker is sometimes called the mizzen .
MONKEY BLOCK	A small single block strapped with a swivel.
MOON-SAIL	A small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
MOOR	To secure by two anchors.
MORTICE	A morticed block is one made out of a whole block of wood with a hole cut in it for the sheave; in distinction from a made block .
MOULDS	The patterns by which the frames of a vessel are worked out.
MOUSE	To put turns of rope yarn or spunyarn round the end of a hook and its standing part, when it is hooked to anything, so as to prevent its slipping out.
MOUSING	A knot or puddening, made of yarns, and placed on the outside of a rope.
MUFFLE	Oars are muffled by puting mats or canvass round their looms in the row-locks.
MUNIONS	The pieces that separate the lights in the galleries.