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148 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. most firm in the ground, so as to endanger the tripping of her anchor, she is said to to break her sheer. Breaming, burning off the filth from a ship's bottom. Breast-fast, a rope employed to confine a ship sideways to a wharf, or to some other ship. | To bring by the lee.--See To brocle to. To bring to, to check the course of a ship when she is advancing, by arranging the sails in such a manner that they shall counteract each other, and prevent her from either retreating or advancing.--See To lie to. To broach to, to incline suddenly to windward of the ship's course, so as to present her side to the wind, and endanger her oversetting. The differs ence between broaching to and bringing by the lee may be thus defined : | Suppose a ship, under great sail, is steering south, having the wind at NN W; then west is the weather side and east the lee side. If, by any acci- dent, her head turns round to the westward, so that her sails are all taken aback on the weather-side, she is said to broach to. If, on the contrary, her head declines so far eastward as to lay her sails aback on that side which was the lee-side, it is called bringing by the lee. a Broadside, a ceahengn of all the guns on one side of a ship, both above and below. Broken-backed, the state of a ship which is so loosened in her frame as to drop at each end. By the board, over the ship's side. By the head, the state of a ship when she is so unequally loaded as to draw more water forward than aft. By the wind, the course of a ship as near as possible to the direction of the wind, which is generally within six points of it. Bunt-lines, ropes fastened to the foot-rope of square-sails, to draw them up to the middle of the yards for furling. . Buoy, a floating conical cask, moored upon shoals, to show where the danger is; it is also attached tg anchors, to show where they lie, in case the cable breaks. CaP, a strong, thick block of wood, having two large holes through it, the one square, the other round; used to confine the two masts together. Capsize, overturn.-- T he boat ts capsized, that is, overset.--Capsize the cowl of rope, that is, turn it over. Capstan, an instrument by which the anchor is weighed out of the ground; used also for setting up the shrouds, and other work where a great purchase is required. To careen, to incline a ship on one side so low down by shifting the cargo or stores on one side, that her bottom on the --_-- side may be cleansed by breaming. To carry away, to break; as A ship has carried anony her bowsprit, that is, has broken it off.