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Knight's 1881 Mechanical Dictionary - Subject Index
Nautical Appliances

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Accommodation ladder
After-sail
Alarm
Anchor
Anchor-ball
Anchor. Drag
Anchor. Mushroom
Apparel
Arming
Back-rope
Back-stay
Bag-reef
Bails
Balance-reef
Ballast-shovel
Balloon-jib
Barking
Beacon
Bear
Bearing-binnacle
Becket
Bee-block
Belaying-pin
Bell-buoy
Belly-band
Bend
Berth
Bibbs
Bight
Billet-head
Binnacle
Birds-nest
Bitter-end
Bitt-stopper
Blare
Blast-engine
Blind
Block
Block and tackle
Blubber-guy
Blubber-spade
Boat
Boat-hook
Bob-stay
Bollard
Bolster
Bolt-rope
Bonaventure-mizzen
Bonnet
Booby-hatch
Boom
Boom-iron
Boom-jigger
Boomkin
Boot-topping
Bower
Bow-fast
Bow-grace
Bowline
Bowline-bridle
Bowsprit
Brace
Breast-rail
Breaming
Breast-fast
Bridle
Bridle-port
Broadside
Built-up
Bull's-eye
Bunker
Buoy
Buoy-rope
Burgee
Burr-pump
Burton
Cable
Cable-gripper
Cable-hook
Cable-nipper
Cable-shackle
Cable-stopper
Cant-block
Cantick-quoin
Canvas
Cap
Capstan
Card
Careening
Cargo-jack
Cargo-port
Carrick-bend
Cat
Cat-block
Cat-fall
Cat-harping
Cathead
Cat-hook
Cat's-paw
Center-board
Chafing-gear
Chain-cable
Chain-hook
Chain-lifter
Chain-pump
Chain-stopper
Chess-tree
Chest-rope
Chinse
Chinsing-iron
Cleat
Clew
Clew-garnet
Clew-line
Clinch
Clinching
Clove-hitch
Coat
Collar
Commander
Compass
Compressor
Concluding-line
Controller
Cork-jacket
Counter
Counter-brace
Courses
Crane
Creeper
Cringle
Cross-jack yard
Crotch
Crow-foot
Crow's-nest
Crupper-chain
Cuddy
Cup
Davit
Dead-eye
Dead-head
Dead-light
Dead-sheave
Deck
Deep-sea line
Dog-stopper
Dolphin
Dolphin-striker
Downhaul
Drabler
Drag
Drift-anchor
Drift-sail
Driver
Drog
Drum-head
Dunnage
Earing
Electric log
Euphroe
Eye
Eye-splice
Fair-leader
Fake
Fall
Fall and tackle
Fancy-line
Fang
Fast
Fender
Fid
Fid-hammer
Fife-rail
Filling
Fish-davit
Fish-fall
Fleet
Flemish eye
Flemish horse
Floating-anchor
Flying-jib
Flying-jib boom
Fog alarm
Foot
Foot-rope
Fore-and-aft sail
Fore-ganger
Forerunner
Fothering
Fox
Frapping
Furling
Gaff
Gammoning
Gang-board
Gang-cask
Gangway
Garland
Garnet
Gasket
Girtline
Gooseneck
Gore
Grafting
Grapnel
Graving
Grommet
Ground-tackle
Guest-rope
Gutter-ledge
Guy
Halser
Halyard
Hammock
Hand-lead
Hank
Harness-cask
Hawse
Hawse-block
Hawser
Head
Head-fast
Head-rope
Head-sail
Heart
Heel-chain
Heel-rope
Hitch
Hog-frame
Holystone
Hood
Hoop
Horse
Horseshoe-rack
Horsing-iron
Hounding
Hounds
Housing
House-line
Ice-anchor
Ice-beam
Inhaul
Jack-block
Jack-cross-tree
Jack-ladder
Jack-staff
Jack-stay
Jaw
Jewel-block
Jew's-harp
Jib
Jib-boom
Jigger
Jury-mast
Keckling
Kedge
Kennet
Kevel
Kite
Knot
Lacing
Ladder
Ladder-way
Larboard
Lashing
Lasket
Lateen-sail
Lazy-jack
Lead
Leading-part
Leak-indicator
Leak-signal
Lee-board
Leech
Leech-line
Leech-rope
Life-buoy
Life-car
Life-line
Life-preserver
Lift
Link-worming
Lizard
Log
Log-board
Log-book
Log-chip
Loggerhead
Log-glass
Log-line
Log-reel
Loom
Lubber's hole
Luff
Luff-tackle
Lug-sail
Made-mast
Main
Making-iron
Mallet
Man-rope
Marks and deeps
Marline
Martingale
Mast
Mast-hoop
Mast-scraper
Mat
Messenger
Mizzen
Mooring-swivel
Mouse
Nautical signals
Necklace
Nipper
Norman
Nun-buoy
Oar-lock
Outhaul
Outrigger
Oyster-dredge
Oyster-rake
Oyster-tongs
Painter
Pala
Palm
Parceling-machine
Parclose
Parral
Parral-rope
Partner
Paunch
Pawl-bitt
Pawl-rim
Peak
Pennant
Pin-rack
Plummet
Point
Pole-mast
Port
Port-tackle
Poy
Preventer
Prow
Puddening
Puoy
Purchase
Puttock shrouds
Pyx
Quant
Quarter
Quarter-block
Rack
Raddle
Ratline
Reef
Reef-band
Reef-point
Reef-tackle
Reeming
Reeming-beetle
Relieving-tackle
Rhodings
Rhumb
Ridge-rope
Riding-bitts
Rig
Rigging
Ring-bolt
Ring-sail
Ring-tail
Ripping-iron
Roach
Roband
Rolling-tackle
Rope
Rope-yarn
Rough-tree
Rounding
Rowl
Rowlock
Rowport
Royal
Rubber
Rubbing-paunch
Rudder
Rudder-pendant
Runner
Running-rigging
Saddle
Sail
Sail-clutch
Sail-hook
Sail-hoop
Save-all
Score
Scotsman
Scraper
Scull
Scupper
Scupper-hose
Scupper-leather
Scupper-shoot
Seam
Seaway-measurer
Seizing
Selvage
Selvagee
Sennit
Serving
Serving-mallet
Settee-sail
Setting-pole
Shackle
Shackle-crow
Shears
Sheep-shank
Sheer lashing
Sheer-mast
Sheet
Sheet-anchor
Shoal-indicator
Shot-plug
Shroud-plate
Shroud-truck
Skeet
Skysail
Sky-scraper
Slab-line
Slice
Sliding-gunter
Slip-hook
Slip-shackle
Slip-stopper
Smiting-line
Smoke-sail
Snaking
Snotter
Sounding-apparatus
Sounding-line
Sounding-rod
Span
Span-block
Spanish burton
Spanish windlass
Spanker
Spar
Speck-block
Speed-indicator
Spencer
Spider
Spike-tackle
Spilling-line
Splice
Splicing-fid
Spring
Sprit
Sprit-sail
Sprit-sail yard
Spun-yarn
Spurling-line
Standing-rigging
Starboard
Stay
Stay-sail
Stay-tackle
Steam-steering apparatus
Steering-apparatus
Steering-wheel
Steeve
Stern
Stern-fast
Stern-sheets
Stirrup
Stop
Storm-sail
Strand
Strap
Stray-line
Stream-anchor
Stream-cable
Streamer
Stretcher
Studding-sail
Stump-mast
Submarine thermometer
Supporter
Surge
Swab
Sweep
Swinging-boom
Tabling
Tack
Tackle
Tack-tackle
Tail-tackle
Tell tale
Thimble
Thimble-eye
Thole
Throat
Thrum
Thumb-cleat
Thwart
Tie
Tier
Tiller
Tiller-rope
Tilt
Toggle
Top
Top-chain
Top-gallant
Top-hamper
Top-mast
Topping-lift
Towing-bridle
Train-tackle
Trap-net
Traverse-board
Traverse-table
Trawl
Tree-nail
Trestle-tree
Tricing-line
Triatic stay
Trigger
Tripping-line
Truck
Trundle-head
Truss
Try-sail
Tuck
Tumbler
Turk's head
Tye
Undocking
Uphroe
Vang
Velocimeter
Vessel
Voyol
Waft
Wall-knot
Wapp
Warp
Watch-tackle
Waterman's knot
Water-sail
Wheel
Wheel-rope
Whelp
Whip
Whip-on-whip
Whisker
Winch
Windlass
Wind-sail
Wire-rope
Wooden-wing
Wood-lock
Worming
Yard
Yard-tackle
Yoke


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