HOE. See [Howe].
HOE-MOTHER, or Homer. The basking shark, Squalus maximus.
HOE-TUSK. Squalus mustela, smooth hound-fish of the Shetlanders.
HOG. A kind of rough, flat scrubbing broom, serving to scrape a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of [boot-topping] (which see); formed by inclosing a multitude of short twigs of birch, or the like, between two pieces of plank, which are firmly attached to each other; the ends of the twigs are then cut off even, so as to form a brush of considerable extent. To this is fitted a long staff, together with two ropes, the former of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the latter to guide and pull it up again close to the planks, so as to rub off all the dirt. This work is usually performed in the ship's boat.
HOG-BOAT. See [Heck-boat].
HOGGED. A significant word derived from the animal; it implies that the two ends of a ship's decks droop lower than the midship part, consequently, that her keel and bottom are so strained as to curve upwards. The term is therefore in opposition to that of sagging.
HOG-IN-ARMOUR. Soubriquet for an iron-clad ship.
HOGO. From the French haut-gout, a disagreeable smell, but rather applied to ill-ventilated berths than to bilge-water.
HOISE. The old word for hoist.
HOIST. The perpendicular height of a sail or flag; in the latter it is opposed to the fly, which implies its breadth from the staff to the outer edge: or that part to which the halliards are bent.