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182 - PHOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. water, which her provisions and stores will not do.-- Trim the ballast ; that is, spread it about, and lay it even.-- The ballast shoots ; that is, it shifts, or runs over from one side of the hold to the other. . Bare poles. When a ship has no sail set, she is under bare poles, Barge ; a caravel-built*boat, that rows with ten or twelve oars. Batten ; athin piece of wood.--Batten down the hatches, is to lay battens upon the tarpaulins, which are over the hatches, in bad weather, -- nail them down, that they may not be washed off. Beacon ; a post or stake erected over a shoal or sand-bank, as a warn- ing to seamen to keep at a distance; also, a signal placed at the top of hills, ete. Beams ; strong pieces of timber, stretching across a ship, side to side, to support the decks, and retain the steed at their proper distance. " Bear a hand!" make haste, dispatch. Bearing signifies the point of the compass which any two or more places bear from each other, or how any place bears from the ship by the compass; or it may be said to bear on the beam, abaft the beam, on the -- bow, the head, or stern, etc. Bearings of a ship, are that line which is formed by the water upon her sides when she is at anchor, with her proportion of ballast and stores on board.-- Zo bear to, is to sail into a harbor, etc.--Bear round up ; that is, put her right before the wind.--Bring your guns to bear, is to point them to the object. : To bear in with the land, is when a ship sails towards the shore. To bear off ; to thrust or keep off from the ship's side, etc., any a when hoisting. -- Bearing up, or bearing away ; the act of clon the course of a ship, in order to make her run before the wind, after she has sailed some time with a side wind, or close-hauled. It is ooneiallse performed to arrive at some port under the lee, or to avoid some imminent danger, occasioned by a violent storm, leak, or enemy in sight. Beating to windward ; the making a progress apainet thé direction of the wind, by steering alternately close-hauled on the starboard and port tacks. ) To becalm ; to intercept the current of the wind, in its passage to a : ship, by any contiguous object, as a shore above her sails, a high sea behind, etc.; and thus one sail is said to becalm another. Before the beam, denotes an arc of the horizon comprehended between the line of the beam, which is at right angles to the keel, and that point of the compass on which the ship stems. See Bearing. Belay ; to make fast any running rope; as, Belay the main brace ; or, make it fast. Bend ; to apply to, and fasten; as, Bend the sails ; apply them to the yards, and fasten them.-- Unbend the sails ; that is, cast them off, and take them from the yards.--Her sails are unbent ; she has none fixed. --Bend the cable ; make it fast to the anchor. Beneaped.--See Neaped. eae Between decks ; the space contained between any two decks of a ship.