The Sheets are ropes used for extending the clues, or lowering the corners of the sails.
Brails are ropes used to truss up a sail to a mast or yard.
Reef-Bands are long pieces of rough canvass sewed across the sails to give them additional strength.
Scudding is a term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
Leeward implies when the ship lies on that side to which the wind is directed.
Windbound means when the ship is detained in one particular station by contrary winds.
Windward is when the ship is in the direction of the wind.