Courses. The common term for the sails that hang from a ship's lower yards. The foresail is called the fore course and the mainsail the main course.
Cranes. Pieces of iron or timber at the vessel's sides, used to stow boats or spars upon. A machine used at a wharf for hoisting.
Crank. The condition of a vessel when she is inclined to lean over a great deal and cannot bear much sail. This may be owing to her construction or to her stowage.
Creeper. An iron instrument, like a grapnell, with four claws, used for dragging the bottom of a harbor or river, to find anything lost.
Cringle. A short piece of rope with each end spliced into the bolt-rope of a sail, confining an iron ring or thimble.
Cross-bars. Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor.
Cross-chocks. Pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heels of the lower futtocks.
Cross-jack. (Pronounced croj-jack.) The cross-jack yard is the lower yard on the mizzen mast. (See Plate 1.)
Cross-pawls. Pieces of timber that keep a vessel together while in her frames.
Cross-piece. A piece of timber connecting two bitts.