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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT, 189 To fetch away, to be shaken or agitated from one side to another, so as to loosen any thing which before was fixed. fd, a square bar of wood or iron, with shoulders at one end, used to support the weight of the topmast, when erected at the head of a lower mast.--Hid for splicing, a large piece of wood, of a conical figure, used to extend the strands and layers of cables in splicing. To fill, to brace the sails so as to receive the wind in them, and advance the ship in her course, after they have been either shivering or braced aback. Fish, a ai piece of wood.--Fish the mast, apply a large piece of wood to it to strengthen it. Lish-hook, a large hook, by which the anchor is received and brought to the cat-head ; and the tackle which is used ior this purpose is called the fish-tackle. To fish the anchor, to draw up the flukes of the anchor towards the top of the bow, in order to stow it, after having been catted, lag, a general name for colors worn and used by ships of war. Flat aft, the situation of the sails when their surfaces are pressed aft against the mast by the force of the wind. To flat in, to draw in the aftermost lower corner, or clew, of a sail towards the middle of the ship, to give the sail a greater power to turn the vessel_-- Zo flat in forward, to draw in the fore-sheet, jib-sheet, and fore-staysail-sheet, towards the middle of the ship. Hlaw, a sudden breeze or gust of wind. HH bain: the state of being buoyed up by the water from the ground. Hlood-tide, the state of a tide when it flows or rises. Flowing sheets, the position of the sheets of the principal sails when they are loosened from the wind so as to receive it into their cavities more nearly perpendicular than when close-hauled, but more obliquely than when the ship sails before the wind. A ship going two or three points large has flowing sheets, Hore, that part of a ship's frame, and machinery that lies near the stem.--fore and aft, throughout the whole ship's length; lengthways of the ship. Hore-reach, to shoot ahead, or go past another vessel. To force over, to force a ship violently over a shoal by a great quan- tity of sail, Forward, towards the fore part of a ship. Foul is used in opposition both to clear and fair. As opposed to clear, we say, foul weather, foul botiom, foul ground, foul anchor, foul hawse. As opposed to fair, we say, foul wind. To founder, to sink at sea by filling with water. To free, Pumping is said to free the ship, when it discharges more water than leaks into her. To freshen. When a gale increases, it is said to freshen.--To freshen the hawse, to veer out or heave in a little cable, to let another part of it endure the stress of the hawse-hole. It is also applied to the act of renewing the service round the cable at the hawse-hole.