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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT, 193 Jeers, the ropes by which the lower yards are suspended. Jib, the foremost sail of a ship, set upon a boom which runs out upon the bowsprit. Jib-boom, a spar that runs out upen the bowsprit. Jolly-boat, a small boat. _ dunk, old cable, or old rope. Jury-mast, a temporary or occasional mast, erected in a ship in the place of one which has been carried away by accident, etc. KEDGE, a small anchor with an iron stock. Keel, the principal piece of timber in a ship, which is usually first laid on the blocks in building. Keel-haul, to drag a person backwards and forwards under a ship's keel for certain offences. Keckled, any part of a cable covered over with old ropes, to prevent its surface from rubbing against the ship's bow or fore-foot. To keep away, to alter the ship's course to one rather more large, for a little time, to avoid some ship, danger, etc.--" Keep away!" is likewise said to the steersman who is apt to go to windward of the ship's course.--To keep full, to keep the sails distended by the wind.--7o keep hold of the land, to steer near to or in sight of the land.--To Keep off, to sail off, or keep at a distance from the shore.-- To keep the land aboard, the same as to keep hold of the land.--To keep the luff, to continue close to the wind. To keep the wind, the same as to keep the luff. Kelson, a piece of timber forming the interior of the ab being laid on the middle of the floor timbers immediately over the keel; and serving to unite the former to the latter. Kentledge, pigs of iron for ballast, laid upon the floor, near the kelson, fore and aft. Kenk, a sort of twist or turn in a cable or rope. _ . Kinippers, a large kind of plaited rope, which, being twisted round the messenger and cable in weighing, binds them together. Knot, a division of the leg-line, answering, in the calculation of the ship' s velocity, to one mile. Kumatage, a bright appearance in the horizon, under the sun or moon, arising from the reflected light of those bodies from the small rippling waves on the surface of the water. To LABOR, to roll or pitch heavily in a turbulent sea. Laden in bulk, freighted with a cargo not packed, but lying loose, as corn, salt, etc. : Laid up, the situation of a ship when moored in a harbor, for want of employ. Landfall, the first land discovered afer a sea voyage. Thus a good landfall implies the land expected or desired; a dad landfall, the reverse. Land-locked, the situation of a ship siaoket with land, so as to exclude the prospect of the sea, unless over some intervening land. 25 : , | a