DOGGER. A Dutch smack of about 150 tons, navigated in the German Ocean. It is mostly equipped with a main and a mizen mast, and somewhat resembles a ketch or a galliot. It is principally used for fishing on the Dogger Bank.
DOGGER-FISH. Fish bought out of the Dutch doggers.
DOGGER-MEN. The seafaring fishermen belonging to doggers.
DOGS. The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship.
DOG'S-BODY. Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
DOG-SHORES. Two long square blocks of timber, resting diagonally with their heads to the cleats. They are placed forward to support the bilge-ways on the ground-ways, thereby preventing the ship from starting off the slips while the keel-blocks are being taken out.
DOG-SLEEP. The uncomfortable fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.
DOG'S TAIL. A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
DOG-STOPPER. Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger.
DOG-TONGUE. A name assigned to a kind of sole.