Caboose. A house on deck, where the cooking is done. Commonly called the Galley.
Calk. (See Caulk.)
Cambered. When the floor of a vessel is higher at the middle than towards the stem and stern.
Camel. A machine used for lifting vessels over a shoal or bar.
Camfering. Taking off an angle or edge of a timber.
Can-hooks. Slings with flat hooks at each end, used for hoisting barrels or light casks, the hooks being placed round the chimes, and the purchase hooked to the centre of the slings. Small ones are usually wholly of iron.
Cant-pieces. Pieces of timber fastened to the angles of fishes and side-trees, to supply any part that may prove rotten.
Cant-timbers. Timbers at the two ends of a vessel, raised obliquely from the keel.
Lower Half Cants. Those parts of frames situated forward and abaft the square frames, or the floor timbers which cross the keel.
Canvass. The cloth of which sails are made. No. 1 is the coarsest and strongest.