SABANDER. The familiar of shah-bander, an eastern title for captain or governor of a port.
SABATINES. Steel coverings for the feet; sometimes slippers or clogs.
SABRE. A sword with a broad and rather heavy blade, thick at the back, and curved towards the point, intended for cutting more than for thrusting.
SABRETACHE. A flat leathern case or pocket suspended at the left side of a cavalry officer's sword-belt.
SACCADE. The sudden jerk of the sails in light winds and a heavy swell.
SACCOLEVA, or Sacolege. A Levantine small craft of great sheer, carrying a sail with an enormous sprit, so called.
SACK, To [from the Anglo-Saxon sæc]. To pillage a place which has been taken by storm.
SACKS OF COALS. The seaman's name for the black Magellanic clouds, or patches of deep blue sky in the milky-way near the south pole.
SADDLE HILL. A high land visible from the coast, having a centre less elevated than its ends, somewhat like a riding-saddle.
SADDLES. Chocks of notched wood embracing spars, to support others attached to them; thus we have a saddle-crutch for the main or driver boom on the taffarel; another on the bowsprit to support the heel of the jib-boom.