Garboard-streak. (See Plate 3.) The range of planks next to the keel, on each side.
Garland. A large rope, strap or grommet, lashed to a spar when hoisting it inboard.
Garnet. A purchase on the main stay, for hoisting cargo.
Gaskets. Ropes or pieces of plated stuff, used to secure a sail to the yard or boom when it is furled. They are called a bunt, quarter, or yard-arm gasket, according to their position on the yard.
Gimblet. To turn an anchor round by its stock. To turn anything round on its end.
Girt. The situation of a vessel when her cables are too taut.
Girtline. A rope rove through a single block aloft, making a whip purchase. Commonly used to hoist rigging by, in fitting it.
Give way! An order to men in a boat to pull with more force, or to begin pulling. The same as, Lay out on your oars! or, Lay out!
Glut. A piece of canvass sewed into the centre of a sail near the head. It has an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through.
Gob-line, or Gaub-line. A rope leading from the martingale inboard. The same as back-rope.