Stop.—A fastening of small stuff.
Strop.—An eye of rope or wire spliced round a block.
Tabernacle.—A mast step on deck, in which the mast works on an iron pivot, and so can be easily lowered.
Tack.—The lower fore corner of a sail.
Taffrail.—The rail round a vessel’s stern.
Thimble.—An iron ring, with a concave outer edge, into which a strop can be fitted.
Toggle.—A pin fastened to the end of a rope, which can be thrust through the eye of another rope, and so secure them together. The jib sheets are often secured to the clew of the jib in this way.
Topping Lift.—The rope which sustains the weight of the end of the boom, and by hauling on which the boom can be raised to the required height.
Truck.—A circular block of wood at the masthead with holes in it through which the signal halyards are rove.
Waist.—The midships section of a vessel.