An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

YEOMAN, an officer under the boatswain or gunner of a ship of war, usually charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of their respective stores.

YOKE, a name formerly given to the tiller, when communicating with two blocks or sheaves affixed to the inner end of the tiller. It is now applied to a small board or bar which crosses the upper end of a boat’s rudder at right angles, and having two small cords extending from its opposite extremities to the stern-sheets of the boat, whereby she is steered as with a tiller.

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SUPPLEMENT and ERRATA.

A.

In the article Aback, line 19. for fig. 1. read fig. 14. and in line 22, read fig. 13.

After the Anchor is a cock bill, read à la veille.

An-end, debout, the situation of any mast or boom, when erected perpendicularly on the plane of the deck, tops, &c. The top-masts are also said to be an-end when they are hoisted up to their usual station, at the head of the lower masts, as in fig. 3. plate [VI].

In line 24. page 2. of Naval Architecture, dele see the article Elevation, and line 21. under this in the same page, for plate [V]. fig. 4. read plate [IV]. fig. 11.

In the explanation of the pieces of the Hull, page 6. of Naval Architecture, line 31. for sternpost, read dead-wood, and two lines lower, for sleepers, read knees.