BULLETS. Leaden balls with which all kinds of fire-arms are loaded.
BULL-HEAD, or Bull-jub. A name of the fish called miller's thumb (Cottus gobio).
BULLOCK-BLOCKS. Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in order to increase the mechanical power used in hoisting them up.
BULLOCK-SLINGS. Used to hoist in live bullocks.
BULL'S-EYE. A sort of block without a sheave, for a rope to reeve through; it is grooved for stropping. Also, the central mark of a target. Also, a hemispherical piece of ground glass of great thickness, inserted into small openings in the decks, port-lids, and scuttle-hatches, for the admission of light below.
BULL'S-EYE CRINGLE. A piece of wood in the form of a ring, which answers the purpose of an iron thimble; it is seldom used by English seamen, and then only for the fore and main bowline-bridles.
BULL-TROUT. The salmon-trout of the Tweed. A large species of trout taken in the waters of Northumberland.
BULLYRAG, To. To reproach contemptuously, and in a hectoring manner; to bluster, to abuse, and to insult noisily. Shakspeare makes mine host of the Garter dub Falstaff a bully-rook.
BULWARK. The planking or wood-work round a vessel above her deck, and fastened externally to the stanchions and timber-heads. In this form it is a synonym of berthing. Also, the old name for a bastion.
BULWARK-NETTING. An ornamental frame of netting answering the purpose of a bulwark.