Slip. To let a cable go and stand out to sea. (See page 90.)
Slip-rope. A rope bent to the cable just outside the hawse-hole, and brought in on the weather quarter, for slipping. (See page 90.)
Sloop. A small vessel with one mast. (See Plate 4.)
Sloop of War. A vessel of any rig, mounting between 18 and 32 guns.
Slue. To turn anything round or over.
Small Stuff. The term for spunyarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, such as ratline-stuff, &c.
Snake. To pass small stuff across a seizing, with marling hitches at the outer turns.
Snatch-block. A single block, with an opening in its side below the sheave, or at the bottom, to receive the bight of a rope.
Snotter. A rope going over a yard-arm, with an eye, used to bend a tripping-line to in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war.
Snow. A kind of brig, formerly used.