Coat. Mast-Coat is a piece of canvass, tarred or painted, placed round a mast or bowsprit, where it enters the deck.
Cock-bill. To cock-bill a yard or anchor. (See A-cock-bill.)
Cock-pit. An apartment in a vessel of war, used by the surgeon during an action.
Codline. An eighteen thread line.
Coxswain. (Pronounced cox'n.) The person who steers a boat and has charge of her.
Coil. To lay a rope up in a ring, with one turn or fake over another.
A coil is a quantity of rope laid up in that manner.
Collar. An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay, to go over the mast-head.
Come. Come home, said of an anchor when it is broken from the ground and drags.
To come up a rope or tackle, is to slack it off.