Davits. Short pieces, formerly of timber, now of iron, projecting over a vessel’s side, for hoisting up the ship’s anchors or boats.
Dhow. The term applied generally to the lateen-rigged ships of the East.
Freeboard. The amount of a ship’s hull extending from the waterline to the gunwale.
Gaff. A spar used for extending the upper edge of a fore-and-aft rectangular sail—e.g., the mainsail of a cutter.
Goaring. An old English expression in use during Elizabethan times, applied when the lower corners of the sail extended much further out than the width of the canvas stretched along the yard.
Gooseneck. A piece of bent iron fitted to the end of a boom by which to connect the latter to the ship.
Guy. A rope attached to a spar for the purpose of steadying it.
Gybe. When a ship so alters her course in running free that the wind, instead of coming from one quarter, comes from the opposite quarter, the mainsail of a fore-and-after will have swung over, and be said to have gybed.
Halyard. A rope or tackle used for hoisting or lowering sails and spars.