LONG STERN-TIMBERS. See [Stern-timbers].
LONG STROKE. The order to a boat's crew to stretch out and hang on her.
LONG-TACKLES. Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of different sizes placed one above the other, as in fiddle-blocks.
LONG-TAILS. A sobriquet for the Chinese.
LONG TIMBERS, or Long Top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from the dead-wood to the head of the second futtock, and forming a floor.
LONG TOGS. Landsman's clothes.
LONG TOM, or Long Tom Turks. Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c.
LONG VOYAGE. One in which the Atlantic Ocean is crossed.
LONG-WINDED WHISTLERS. Chase-guns.
LOO, or Loe. A little round hill or heap of stones.—Under the loo, is shelter from the wind; to leeward.