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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT 201 spread without the assistance of one or both of the sheets, The staysails and studdingsails have only one tack and one sheet each: The staysail- tacks are fastened forward, and the sheets drawn aft, but the studdingsail- tacks draw the outer corner of the sail to the extremity of the boom, while the sheet is employed to extend the inner corner. To sheet home, to haul the sheets of a sail home to the block on the yard-arm. Lo shift the helm, to alter its position from right to left, or from left to right. To ship, to take any person, goods, or thing on board. It also implies to fix any thing in its proper place; as Zo ship' the oars, to fix them in their rullocks. . Ship-shape, in a seamanlike manner ; as, That mast is not ragged ship- shape; Put her about ship-shape, etc. Shivering, the state of a sail when fluttering in the wind. Shoal, shallow. Shoe of the anchor, a small block of wood, convex on. the back, and having a hole sufficiently large to contain the point of the anchor-fluke on the fore side: itis used to prevent the anchor from tearing oe planks on the ship's bow, when ascending or descending. To shoot ahead, to advance forward. Shore, a general name for the seacoast of any country. _ To shorten sail, used in opposition to make sail. Shrouds, a range of large ropes extended from the mast-heads to the right and left sides of a oo to support the masts, and enable them to carry sail. | Sinnett, a small plaited rope made from rope-yarns. Slack water, the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide, when no motion is perceptible in the water. Slatch is applied to the period of a transitory breeze. To slip the cable,.to let it run quite out, when there i is not time to weigh the anchor. ! : Yo slue, to turn any cylindrical piece of timber aboixt its axis, without removing it; thus, to slue a mast or boom, is to turn it in its cap or boom- iron. Also,to turn any package or cask round. Sound, to try the depth of water. Sounding-line, a line to sound with, which is inarkioaa in the following manner :--Black leather at 2 and 3 fathoms; white at 5; red at 7; black at 10; white at 18, (some seamen use black at 10 and 13;) white at 15 as at 5; red at 17 as at 7; two knots at 10 fathoms, and an additional knot at every ten fathoms, with a single knot midway between each 10 nes, to mark the line at every five fathoms, - To spill the mizzen, to let go the sheet and peiik it up. | To spill, to discharge the wind out of the cavity or belly of a. sail, when it is drawn up in 'the brails, in order to furl or reef it. | Spilling-lines are ropes contrived to keep the sails from being blown away, when they are clewed up in blowing weather. 26