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| Toe-rail | A small low rail around the deck of a boat. The toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks and to allow drainage. A larger wall is known as a gunwale. |
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| Tom Cox's Traverse | Work done by a man who bustles about doing nothing. Usually amplified by adding "running twice round the scuttle butt and once round the longboat". |
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| Ton | A measure of weight ashore and a measure of capacity on a vessel. |
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| Tonnage | A measure of a vessel's interior volume; The weight or displacement of a ship. |
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| Top | on square-rigged ships, a platform at the masthead resting on the trestletrees and crosstrees. In addition to being a work platform, it extended the topmast shrouds to give additional support to the topmast. |
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| Top Hamper | That portion of a vessel above the main deck. |
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| Topgallant | (1) The mast section next above the topmast and and below the royal mast. (2) The yard supported by that mast. (3) The third lowest square sail. It is stretched between the topgallant yard and the top yard. |
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| Topmast | A second mast carried at the top of the fore or main mast, used to fly more sail. |
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| Topmen | Seamen who worked on the masts and yards of square-rigged ships. |
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| Topping Lift | (1) A line by which the end of a spar is hoisted or lowered. (2) A line that holds up the boom when it is not being used. (3) A line from the upper mast which controls the height of the spinnaker pole. |
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| Topsail | The sail above the lowermost sail on a square-rigged ship; also, the sail set above and sometimes on the gaff on a gaff rigged boat. |
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| Topsail Schooner | A schooner with a square rigged sail on the forward mast. |
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| Topside | Above the main deck. |
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| Topsides | (1) The sides of a vessel between the waterline and the deck. (2) Referring to on or above the deck; "I'm going topsides". |
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| Touch and Go | To touch the ground, with the keel, for a minute or so and then proceed again. |
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