GREYHOUND. A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.
GRIAN. A Gaelic term for the bottom, whether of river, lake, or sea.
GRIBAN. A small two-masted vessel of Normandy.
GRID. The diminutive of gridiron.
GRIDIRON. A solid timber stage or frame, formed of cross-beams of wood, for receiving a ship with a falling tide, in order that her bottom may be examined. The Americans also use for a similar purpose an apparatus called a screw-dock, and another known as the hydraulic-dock.
GRIFFIN, or Griff. A name given to Europeans during the first year of their arrival in India; it has become a general term for an inexperienced youngster.
GRIG. Small eels.
GRILL, To. To broil on the bars of the galley-range, as implied by its French derivation.
GRILSE. One of the salmon tribe, generally considered to be a young salmon on the return from its first sojourn at the sea; though by some still supposed to be a distinct fish.
GRIN AND BEAR IT. The stoical resignation to unavoidable hardship, which, being heard on board ship by Lord Byron, produced the fine stanza in "Childe Harold," commencing "Existence might be borne."