Trim the boat. See Boat, and the phrases succeeding it.
Sharp-Trimmed, the situation of a ship’s sails in a scant wind.
TRIMONEER, a barbarous corruption of Timoneer. See that article.
TRIP, a cant phrase, implying an outward-bound voyage, particularly in the coasting navigation. It also denotes a single board in plying to windward.
TRIPPING, the movement by which an anchor is loosened from the bottom by its cable or buoy-ropes. See Atrip.
TROUGH, a name given to the hollow, or interval between two high waves, which resembles a broad and deep trench perpetually fluctuating. As the setting of the sea is always produced by the wind, it is evident that the waves, and consequently the trough or hollow space between them, will be at right angles with the direction of the wind. Hence a ship rolls heaviest when she lies in the trough of the sea.
TROWSERS, a sort of loose breeches of canvas worn by common sailors.
TRUCK, a piece of wood, which is either conical, cylindrical, spherical, or spheroidical.
Thus the trucks fixed on the spindle of a mast-head, and which are otherwise called acorns, are in the form of a cone: and those which are employed as wheels to the gun-carriages are cylinders. The trucks of the parrels assume the figure of a globe; and, lastly, those of the flag-staffs resemble an oblate spheroid. See the articles Acorn, Cannon, Parrel, and Flag-staff.
Trucks of the shrouds are nearly similar to those of the parrels: they are fastened to the shrouds about twelve or fourteen feet above the deck, the hole in the middle being placed perpendicularly to contain some rope which passes through it. The intention of these is to guide the sailors to the particular rope, which might otherwise be easily mistaken for some other of the same size, especially in the night.