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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 191 Growing, stretching out; applied to the direction of the cable from the ship towards the anchors; as, The cable grows on the starboard bow. Gunnel, the upper edge of a ship's side. Gun-room, a division of the lower deck abaft, inclosed with net-work, for the use of the gunner and his stores. Gybing, the act of shifting any boom-sail from one side of the mast to the other. Hat, to call to another ship. Halliards, the ropes by which the sails are hoisted; as, the topsail- halliards; or jib-halliards, etc. Handing, the same as furling. Hard a-weather, put the tiller quite up to windward. Haul, pull. To haul the wind, to direct the ship's course nearer to the point from which the wind blows. Hawse-holes, the holes in the bows of the ship through which the cables pass.--Freshen hawse, veer out more cable---Clap a service in the hawse ; put somewhat round the cable at the hawse-hole to prevent its chafing.--7Zo clear hawse, is to untwist the cables where a ship is moored, and has got a foul hawse. --Athwart hawse, is to be across or before aniather ship's head. Hawser, a small kind of cable. Head-fast, 2 rope employed to confine the head of a ship to a wharf or to some other ship. Headmost, the situation of any ship or ships which are the most advanced in a fleet. Sere all the sails which belong to the foremast and bowsprit. Head-sea. When the waves meet the indi of a ship in her course, they are called a head-sea. It is likewise applied to a single wave coming in that direction. | Head to wind, the situation of a ship when her head is turned to the point from which the wind blows, as it must be when tacking. Head-way, the motion of advancing, used in opposition to stern-way. To heave, to turn about a capstan, or other machine of the like kind, by means of bars, handspikes, etc.--Zo heave ahead, to advance the ship by heaving in the cable or other rope fastened to an anchor at some distance before her.--Zo heave a-peak, to heave in the cable till the anchor is a-peak.-- Zo heave astern, to move a ship backwards by an operation simi- lar to that of heaving ahead.--Zo heave down, to careen.--To heave in the cable, to draw the cable into the ship, by turning the capstan --TZo heave in stays, to bring a ship's head to the wind, by a management of the sails and rudder, in order to get on the other tack.--Zo heave out, to unfurl or loose a sail; more particularly applied to the staysails; thus we say, Loose the sensalls and heave out the staysails.--7Zo heave short, to draw so much of the cable into the ship as that she will be almost perpendicularly over her anchor.--Zo heave tight or taut, to turn the capstan round till the