Fish-hooks. I.e., fingers.
Foot-ropes. Ropes on which men stand when working aloft.
Fo'c'sle. The cabin or cabins in which the men are berthed. It is usually an iron deck-house divided through the middle into two compartments for the two watches, and fitted with wooden bunks. Sometimes it is even fitted with lockers and an iron water-tank.
Foxes. Strands, yarns, or arrangements of yarns of rope.
Freeing-ports. Iron doors in the ship's side which open outwards to free the decks of water.
Frap. To wrap round with rope.
Futtock-shrouds. Iron bars to which the topmast rigging is secured. As they project outward and upward from the masts they are difficult to clamber over.
Galley. The ship's kitchen.
Gantline (girtline). A rope used for the sending of sails up and down from aloft.
Gaskets. Ropes by which the sails are secured in furling.