TAISTE. A northern name for the black guillemot.
TAJASO. The jerked beef supplied to ships on some parts of the coast of America.
TAKE. The draught of fishes in a single drag of the net. Also, to take, in a military sense, to take or adopt any particular formation, as to take open order, or to take ground to the right or the left.—To take an astronomical observation, so to ascertain the position of a celestial body as to learn from it the place of the ship.
TAKEL [Anglo-Saxon]. The arrows which used to be supplied to the fleet; the takill of Chaucer.
TAKEN AFT. Complained of on the quarter-deck.
TAKE-UP. The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes up slops when he applies to the purser for articles of ready-made clothes, to be charged against his wages. Also, an officer takes up the gauntlet when he accepts a challenge, though no longer in the form of a glove.
TAKE WATER ON BOARD, To. To ship a sea.
TAKING A DEPARTURE. Determining the place of a ship by means of the bearing and distance of a known object, and assuming it as the point to be calculated from.
TAKING IN. The act of brailing up and furling sails at sea; generally used in opposition to setting. (See [Furl] and [Shorten].) Also said of a ship when loading.
TAKING OFF. Said of tides, when decreasing from the spring-tides.