Weather-bitt. To take an additional turn with a cable round the windlass-end.
Weather Roll. The roll which a ship makes to windward.
Weigh. To lift up; as, to weigh an anchor or a mast.
Wheel. The instrument by which a ship is steered; being a barrel, (round which the tiller-ropes go,) and a wheel with spokes.
Whip. (See page 54.) A purchase formed by a rope rove through a single block.
To whip, is to hoist by a whip. Also, to secure the end of a rope from fagging by a seizing of twine.
Whip-upon-whip. One whip applied to the fall of another.
Winch. A purchase formed by a horizontal spindle or shaft with a wheel or crank at the end. A small one with a wheel is used for making ropes or spunyarn.
Windlass. The machine used in merchant vessels to weigh the anchor by.
Wind-rode. The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings and rides by the force of the wind, instead of the tide or current. (See Tide-rode.)