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| Charter | The renting of a boat |
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| Chearly | An old expression meaning heartily or quickly. |
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| Check | To ease away slowly, as in a line, sheet, or falls of a tackle. |
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| Checking | Slacking a rope smartly, carefully and in small amounts. |
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| Cheek Block | A block with one end permanently attached to a surface. |
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| Cheeks | (1) The two sides of a block. (2) Pieces of timber attached to the mast below the masthead to support the trestle trees. |
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| Cheese Down | To coil down the tail of a line on deck to present a neat appearance. |
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| Chief Engineer | The senior engineer officer responsible for the satisfactory working and upkeep of the main and auxiliary machinery and boiler plant on board ship. |
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| Chief Mate | The officer in the deck department next in rank to the master; second in command of a ship. He is next to the master, most especially in the navigation and as far as the deck department is concerned. The chief mate assumes the position of the Master in his absence. |
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| Chinch | The operation of pressing oakum into a seam as a temporary measure until the seam can be properly caulked. |
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| Chine | The angle of intersection between the topsides and the bottom of a boat. In a hard-chined boat this angle is pronounced. |
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| Chock | (1) A deck fitting to guide an anchor, mooring, towing or docking line. Usually smooth shaped to reduce chafe. (2) A wedge or block to keep an object from moving. |
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| Chock-a-Block | When a line is pulled as tight as is can go, as when two blocks are pulled together so that no further movement is possible (also known as "Two blocked"). |
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| Choke the Luff | To temporarily stop all movement of a line through a block by placing the hauling part across the sheave of the block. This jams the sheave and holds it tight, and a pull on the hauling part will release it. |
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| Chop | Small, steep disorderly waves at rapid intervals. |
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