By the run. To let go by the run, is to let go altogether, instead of slacking off.
Rung-heads. The upper ends of the floor-timbers.
Runner. A rope used to increase the power of a tackle. It is rove through a single block which you wish to bring down, and a tackle is hooked to each end, or to one end, the other being made fast.
Running Rigging. The ropes that reeve through blocks, and are pulled and hauled, such as braces, halyards, &c.; in opposition to the standing rigging, the ends of which are securely seized, such as stays, shrouds, &c. (See page 43.)
Saddles. Pieces of wood hollowed out to fit on the yards to which they are nailed, having a hollow in the upper part for the boom to rest in.
Sag. To sag to leeward, is to drift off bodily to leeward.
Sails are of two kinds: square sails, which hang from yards, their foot lying across the line of the keel, as the courses, topsails, &c.; and fore-and-aft sails, which set upon gaffs, or on stays, their foot running with the line of the keel, as jib, spanker, &c.
Sail ho! The cry used when a sail is first discovered at sea.
Save-all. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of a lower studdingsail. (See Water Sail.)
Scantling. A term applied to any piece of timber, with regard to its breadth and thickness, when reduced to the standard size.