TOP THE GLIM, To. To snuff the candle.
TOP THE OFFICER, To. To arrogate superiority.
TOP-TIMBER BREADTH. The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line.
TOP-TIMBER HOLLOW. A name sometimes given to the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top-timber.
TOP-TIMBERS. The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-timbers.
TOP YOUR BOOM. See [Boom].
TOR. A high rock or peak: also a tower, thus retaining the same meaning it had, as torr, with the Anglo-Saxons.
TORMENTER. The large two-pronged iron fork used by the ship's cook, to fish out the cooked meat from the copper.
TORMENTUM. A pistol; a gun; a piece of ordnance.
TORNADO. A peculiar squall, accompanied with rain and lightning, similar in suddenness to the white squall of the West Indies, and experienced off the equatorial region of the west coast of Africa between December and June. It appears first as a small black spot in the east, and barely affords time to put the ship before the wind and clue up all. The wind veers round the compass, and lasts a very short time.