The Art of Rigging

The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the running rigging and bending sails, rigging brigs, yachts and small vessels, more. First inexpensive paperback edition. 17 plates of rigging. Introduction.

PART I ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS AND PHRASES USED IN RIGGING
  Abaft or Aft
  Abaft the Beam
  Aboard or Inboard
  Abreast
  Ahead
  Aloft
  Aloof
  Amidships
  Anchor-stock tackle
  An-end
  Athwart
  Avast
  Awning
  Back-stays
  Beckets
  Belaying
  Bending
  Bends
  Bight
  Binding
  Bitts
  Bitt the cable
  Blocks
  Block and block
  Boarding-netting
  Boatskids or Boomskids
  Bobstay
  Bolsters
  Bolt-rope
  Booms
  Boom-irons
  Boom tackle or boom jigger
  Bowgrace
  Bowsing
  Bowlines
  Bowline tackle
  Bowsprit
  Bowsprit-netting
  Brace
  Brails
  Breast-rope
  Breastwork
  Breeching
  Bridles
  Bull's-eye
  Bumpkins or Boomkins
  Bumpkin shrouds
  Buntlines
  Buoy
  Buoy-rope
  Burton tackles
  Button and loop
  Buttons
  Cable
  Cablet
  Cant
  Caps
  To cap a rope
  Capsize
  Capstan or capstern
  To carry away
  Cast-off
  Catharpins
  Catfall
  Catheads
  Chain cables
  Chain plates
  Chain sheets
  Chain slings
  Cheerly
  Chestrees
  Choaking the luff
  Chock-a-block
  Chocks of the rudder
  Clamp
  Clap on
  Cleats
  Clinch
  Clue of a sail
  Clue-lines
  Coat
  Coil
  Coin or quoin
  Collar
  Come home
  Come-up the capstan
  Come-up the tackle-fall
  Contline
  Cordage
  Creeper
  Cringles
  Crotchets
  Crosstrees
  Crow-foot
  Crown of the cable
  Crowning
  Crutch
  Cut-and-run
  Davit
  Dead-eyes
  Dead-lights
  Derrick
  Dismantle
  Driver or spanker-boom
  Dolphin
  Dolphin-striker
  Down-hauler
  Down-haul tackle
  Earings
  "Ease-off, or veer-away"
  Elbow in the hawse
  End-for-end
  Ensign
  Equip
  Eye of a shroud
  Eyelet-holes
  Fag-end of a rope
  Fake
  Fall
  Fancy lines
  Fangs or lee-fangs
  Fenders
  Fathom
  Fid
  Fids
  Fish
  Flag-staff
  Fleeting
  Fly of a flag
  Flying of sails
  Fore-braces
  Foul anchor
  Foul hawse
  Frapping
  Frapping a ship
  Freshen-hawse
  Furling
  Furling-line
  Futtock plate
  Futtock shroud
  Futtock stave
  Gaff
  Gammoning
  Gangway
  Gaskets
  Girtlines
  Goose-neck
  Grapnel
  Gripes
  Grommet
  Ground-tackle
  Gudgeons or braces
  Gun-slings
  Guys
  Hag's-teeth
  Halliards
  Handsomely
  Handspike
  Hanks
  To Haul
  Hawse-bags
  Hawser
  Head-ropes
  Heart
  Heaver or woolder
  Heaving
  Helm
  Hinges
  Hitch
  Hoist of a flag or sail
  Hoisting
  Holding-on
  Hook
  Hoops
  Horns
  Horse
  Horses
  Hounds
  To jamb
  Jaws
  Jeers
  Jewel blocks
  Jib-guys
  Jigger
  Jigger tackle
  Inhauller
  Junk
  Keckling
  Kevels
  Kinking
  Knittles or nettles
  Knot
  To knot
  Lacing
  Laniards
  Lashers
  Lashing
  Lashing of booms
  Lanunch ho!
  Leading-part
  Leech lines
  Leech rope
  Legs
  Life lines
  Lifts
  Lines
  Lizard
  Loop
  Loosing the sails
  Luff tackle
  Main tackle
  Man-ropes
  Marline spike
  Martingale
  Masts
  Mast coats
  Mat
  Maul
  Meshes
  Messenger
  Mousing a hook
  Nave-line
  To nipper or nip
  Nippers
  Norman
  Oakum
  Overhaul
  Outhauler
  Outrigger
  Painter
  Panch
  Parbuckle
  Parcelling
  Parral
  Parral trucks
  Passaree
  To pay out
  Peak-halliards
  Pendants
  Pins
  Pointing
  Points
  Port pendants
  Preventer
  Preventer stays
  Purchase
  Quarter tackles
  Rack
  Racking a tackle
  Ratlines
  To rattle down the shrouds
  Reef
  Reef tackle
  To reeve
  Relieving tackles
  Ribs of a parral
  Ridge tackle
  to rig
  Rigging
  Rigging-house or loft
  Rolling tackle
  Rope-bands
  Ropes
  Ropeyarn
  Rough-tree rail
  Round-up
  Rounding
  Round-turn
  To rowse
  Rudder-coats
  Rudder tackles
  Runner
  Runner tackles
  Running-rigging
  Saddles for booms
  Sciatic-stay
  Seizing
  Middle-seizing
  Selvagee
  To serve
  Service
  Serving mallet
  Setting the sails
  Setting-up
  Shackles
  Shank-painter
  Sheave
  Sheep-shank
  Sheers
  Sheet
  Shifting backstay tackles
  Ship-shape
  Shrouds
  Slabline
  Slack
  Slack or a rope
  Slack rigging
  Slings
  Slip-knot
  Slip-rope
  To slue
  Snaking
  Snaking the stays
  Snotter
  Spans
  Spanning of booms
  Spanning of runners
  Spanish windlass
  Spars
  Spilling lines
  Splicing
  Spring stays
  Sprit
  Spunyarn
  Square-rigged
  Square-sail boom
  Staff
  Stage
  Standing-part
  Standing-rigging
  Standing part of a rope
  Stanchions of the nettings
  Stays
  Stay-sail stay tackles
  Stay tackles
  Stern-fast
  Stirrups
  Stock-tackle
  Stools
  Stop
  Stoppers
  Strand
  Stranded
  Straps
  To surge
  Swab
  Swagging-off
  To sway
  Swifter
  Swifters
  Swiftering of shrouds
  Swivel
  Swivel-hook
  Tack
  Tack of a flag
  Tack tackle
  Tackle
  Tail
  Tarpauling
  Thimbles
  Throat
  Throat-brails
  Throat-halliards
  Thrumming
  Tiller-rope
  Timenoguy
  Toggle
  Top
  Top-rope
  Top-rope pendants
  "Top-tackle, or top-rope tackles"
  Topping
  Topping-lift
  Towline
  Train tackle
  Traveller
  "Traverse horses, or jackstays"
  Treenails
  Trestle-trees
  Tricing-line
  Trucks
  Truss
  Truss tackles
  Tie
  Vangs
  To veer away
  Viol or voyl
  To underrun a tackle
  Uphroe
  Wall knot
  Warp
  "Warp, or woof"
  Warp of shrouds
  Whip
  Whipt
  Whip upon whip
  Winding-tackle
  Winding-tackle pendant
  Windlass
  Woolding
  Worming
  Yards
  Yard tackles
  Yarn