LEE-WHEEL. The assistant to the helmsman.
LEG. The run made on a single tack. Long and short legs (see [Tack and Half-tack]).
LEG ALONG. Ropes laid on end, ready for manning.
LEG-BAIL. Dishonest desertion from duty. The phrase is not confined to its nautical bearing.
LEGGERS. See [Leaguer].
LEGS. (See [Angle].) A fast-sailing vessel is said to have legs.—Legs are used in cutters, yachts, &c., to shore them up in dry harbours when the tide leaves them. The leech-line cringles have also been called legs. Also, the parts of a point which hang on each side of the sail.
LEGS of the Martinets. Small lines through the bolt-ropes of the courses, above a foot in length, and spliced at either end into themselves, making a small eye into which the martinets are hitched.
LEGS AND WINGS. See [Over-masted].
LEISTER. A three-pronged dart for striking fish, used in the north of England.
LEIT. A northern term for a snood or link of horse-hair for a fishing-line.