Rudder-chains lead from the outer and upper end of the rudder to the quarters. They are hung slack.
Chain-plates. Plates of iron bolted to the side of a ship, to which the chains and dead-eyes of the lower rigging are connected.
Channels. Broad pieces of plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel. Used for spreading the lower rigging. (See Chains.)
Chapelling. Wearing a ship round, when taken aback, without bracing the head yards. (See page 80.)
Check. A term sometimes used for slacking off a little on a brace, and then belaying it.
Cheeks. The projections on each side of a mast, upon which the trestle-trees rest. The sides of the shell of a block.
Cheerly! Quickly, with a will.
Chess-trees. Pieces of oak, fitted to the sides of a vessel, abaft the fore chains, with a sheave in them, to board the main tack to. Now out of use.
Chimes. The ends of the staves of a cask, where they come out beyond the head of the cask.
Chinse. To thrust oakum into seams with a small iron.