GINNELIN. Catching fish by the hand; tickling them.
GINNERS, or Ginnles. The gills of fish.
GINSENG. A Chinese root, formerly highly prized for its restorative virtues, and greatly valued among the items of a cargo. It is now almost out of the Materia Medica.
GIP, To. To take the entrails out of fishes.
GIRANDOLE. Any whirling fire-work.
GIRD, To. To bind; used formerly for striking a blow.
GIRDLE. An additional planking over the wales or bends. Also, a frapping for girding a ship.
GIRT. The situation of a ship which is moored so taut by her cables, extending from the hawse to two distant anchors, as to be prevented from swinging to the wind or tide. The ship thus circumstanced endeavours to swing, but her side bears upon one of the cables, which catches on her heel, and interrupts her in the act of traversing. In this position she must ride with her broadside or stern to the wind or current, till one or both of the cables are slackened, so as to sink under the keel; after which the ship will readily yield to the effort of the wind or current, and turn her head thither. (See [Ride].)
GIRT-LINE. A whip purchase, consisting of a rope passing through a single block on the head of a lower mast to hoist up the rigging thereof, and the persons employed to place it; the girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship. (Sometimes mis-called gant-line.)
GISARMS. An archaic term for a halbert or hand-axe.