Painter—A rope spliced to a ring bolt in the bow of a boat to make fast by.
Pay—To pour hot pitch or marine glue into seams after they are caulked.
Pintles—The metal hooks by which rudders are attached to the gudgeons.
Pole mast—A mast without a topmast, but with a long masthead above the hounds.
Put about—To tack.
Raffee—A square or triangular sail set flying on the foretopmasts of schooners.
Rake—To incline forward or aft from the vertical, as raking mast, a raking sternpost, etc.
Reef band—A strip of canvas sewn across a sail, in which eyelet holes for the reef points are worked.
Reef pendant—A strong rope with a Matthew Walker knot in one end. It is passed up through a hole in the cleat on the boom, and then through the reef cringle in the sail and down through the hole in the cleat on the other side of the boom.
Reef points—Short lengths of rope in sails to tie up the part rolled up when reefing.