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198 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. Ports, the holes in the ship's sides from which the guns are fired. "* Port the helm!" the order to put the helm over to the larboard ie Port-last, the gunnel. Press of sail, all the sail that a ship can set or carry. Preventer, an additional rope employed at times to support any other, when the latter suffers an unusual'strain, particularly when blowing fresh, or in a gale of wind. Pudding and dolphin, a large and lesser pad made of ropes, and put round the mast under the lower yards. Purchase, any sort of ee power employed in raising or moy- ing heavy bodies. QuARTERS, the respective stations of the officers and people in time of action.--Quartering, distributing the men into different places.-- Quarter- bill, the list of the ship's company, with their stations for action noticed. Quarter-wind is when the wind blows in from that part of the horizon situated on the quarter of the ship. See On the quarter. Quoil.--See To coil the cable, etc. -- To RAISE, to elevate any distant object at sea by approaching it; thus to raise the land is used in opposition to lay the land. To rake, to cannonade a ship at the stern or head, so that the balls scour the whole length of the decks. Range of cable, a sufficient length of cable drawn upon deck before the anchor is cast loose, to admit of its sinking to the bottom without any check. fatlines, the small ropes fastened to the shrouds, by which the men go aloft. Reach, the distance between any two points on the banks of a river, wherein the current flows in an uninterrupted course. " Ready about /" a command of the boatswain to the crew, and im- plies that all the hands are to be attentive, and at their stations for tacking. Rear, the last division of a squadron, or the last squadron of a fleet. It is applied likewise to the last ship of a line, squadron, or division. Reef, part of a sail, from one row of eyelet-holes to another. It is applied likewise to a chain of rocks lying near the surface of the water. \ fteefing, the operation of reducing a sail by taking in one or more of the reefs. To reeve, to pass the end of a rope through any hole, as the channel of a block, the cavity of a thimble, ete. Rendering, the giving way or yielding to the efforts of some mechani- cal power. It is used in opposition to jamming or sticking. ibs of a ship, a figurative expression for the timbers. fide at anchor, is when a ship is held by her anchors, and is not driven by wind or tide.--To ride athwart, is to ride with the ship's side to the tide. --To ride hawse fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea.