STIVER. A very small Dutch coin. "Not worth a stiver" is a colloquialism to express a person's poverty.
STOACH-WAY. The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term principally used on our southern shores.
STOAKED. The limber-holes impeded or choked, so that the water cannot come to the pump-well.
STOCADO. A neat thrust in fencing.
STOCCADE. A defensive work, constructed of stout timber or trunks of trees securely planted together. Originally written stockade.
STOCKADE. Now spelled stoccade.
STOCK AND FLUKE. The whole of anything.
STOCK-FISH. Ling and haddock when sun-dried, without salt, were called stock-fish, and used in the navy, but are now discontinued, from being thought to promote the scurvy.
STOCK OF AN ANCHOR. A cross-beam of wood, or bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank at right angles with the flukes; by its means the anchor is canted with one fluke down, and made to hook the ground.—Stock of a gun, musket, or pistol, is the wooden part to which the barrel is fitted, for the convenience of handling and firing it. Stock is also applied to stores laid in for a voyage, as sea-stock, live-stock, &c.—To stock to, in stowing an anchor, is, by means of a tackle upon the upper end of the stock, to bowse it into a perpendicular direction, which tackle is hence denominated the stock-tackle.
STOCKS. A frame of blocks and shores whereon to build shipping. It has a gradual declivity towards the water.