Guffy.—A marine or jolly.
Gullies.—Sea-gulls, Cape Horn pigeons, etc.
Heave and pawl.—A cry of encouragement at the capstan.
Hooker.—A periphrasis for ship, I suppose from a ship’s carrying hooks or anchors.
Jack or Jackstay.—A slender iron rail running along the upper portions of the yards in some ships.
Leeward.—Pronounced ‘looard.’ That quarter to which the wind blows.
Mainsail haul.—An order in tacking ship bidding ‘swing the mainyards.’ To loot, steal, or ‘acquire.’
Main-shrouds.—Ropes, usually wire, supporting lateral strains upon the mainmast.
Mollies.—Molly-hawks, or Fulmar petrels. Wide-winged dusky sea-fowls, common in high latitudes, oily to taste, gluttonous. Great fishers and garbage-eaters.
Port Mahon Baboon, or Port Mahon Soger.—I have been unable to discover either the origin of these insulting epithets or the reasons for the peculiar bitterness with which they sting the marine recipient. They are older than Dana (circa 1840).