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150 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. Clinched, made fast, as the cable is to the ring of the anchor. C lose-hauled, that trim of the ship's sails, when she endeavors to make a progress in the nearest direction possible toward that point of the compass from which the wind blows. To club-haul, a method of tacking a ship when it is expected she will miss stays on a lee shore. Coasting, the act of making a progress along the sea coast of any country. To coil a rope, a cable, etc., to lay it er in a ring, one turn or fake over another. To come home. The anchor is said to come home when it loosens from the ground by the effort of the cable, and approaches Hire place where the ship floated, at the length of her moorings. Coming to, denotes the approach of a ship's head to the direction of the wa. Course, the point of the compass upon which the ship sails,--Courses, a ship's lower sails; as, the foresail is the fore-course, the mainsail the main- course, eto.-- The ship ts under her courses--that is, has no sail set but the mainsail, foresail, and mizzen. ! . Coxswain, the person who steers the boat. Crank.--T he ship is crank, that is, she has not a sufficient cargo or bal- last to 'render her capable of bearing sail, without being exposed to the danger of oversetting. Crow-foot, isa number of small lines, spread from the fore parts of the tops, by means of a piece of wood through which they pass, and, being hauled taut upon the stays, they prevent the foot of the topsails catching under the top rim; they are also used to suspend the awnings. ~ Cun, to direct. Tocun a ship, is to direct the man at the helm how to steer. : = - To cut and run, to cut the cable, and make sail instantly, without wait- ing to weigh anchor. DAVIT, a long beam of timber, used as a ckarie' whereby to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the planks of the ship's sides as it ascends. There is always a davit, of a smaller kind, fixed to the long-boat to weigh the anchor by the buoy-rope. To deaden a ship's way, to impede her progress through the water. Dead eyes, blocks of wood through wien the laniards of the shrouds are reeved. : Dead-lights, a kind of window shutter for the windows in the stern of a ship, used in very bad weather only. Dead-water, the eddy of water, which appears like whirlpools, closing in with the ship's stern as she sails on. Dead-wind, the wind right against the ship, or blowing from the veuy point to which she wants to go.