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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. . 205 & Truck, around piece of wood put upon the top of flag-staves, with sheaves on each side for the halliards of the flags to reeve in. ro 'Trysad, a small sail used by cutters and brigs in blowing weather. Turning to windward, that operation in sailing, whereby a 'ship endeayors to advance against the wind. TO UNBALLAST, to discharge the ballast out of a ship. Lo unbend, to take the sails off from their yards and stays; to cast loose the anchor from the cable; to untie two ropes. To unbditt, to remove the ine of a cable from off the bitts. Underfoot, is expressed of an anchor that is directly under the ship. Under sail, or under way. When a ship is sailing, she is said to be under way. Under the lee of the shore, is to be close under the shore which lies to windward of the ship. Unfurl, cast loose the gasket of the sail. | To unmoor, to reduce a ship to the state of riding at single anchor, after she has been moored. To unreeve, to draw a rope from out of a block, timber, etc. To unrig, to deprive the ship of her rigging. Uvrou, the piece of wood by which the legs of the crofoot are extended. : Van, the foremost division of a fleet in one line. It is likewise applied to the foremost ship of a division. Vane, a small kind of flag worn at each mast-head. To veer, or wear the ship, to change a ship's course from one tack to the other, by juin: her stern to windward. Veer, let out; as, Veer away the cable. Veer, shift--The wind veers, that is, it shifts, changes. To veer and haul, to pull tight and slacken alternately. - Viol or voyal, a block through which the messenger pares e in eee the anchor. A large messenger is called a viol. "WAKE, the path or track impressed on the water by the ship's passing through it, leaving a smoothness in the séa behind it. A ship is said to come into the wake of another, when she follows her in the same track, and this is chiefly done in bringing ships to, or in forming the line of battle. : Wales are strong timbers that go round a ship a little above her water-line. | Warp, a small rope employed occasionally to remove a ship from one place to another. To warp, to remove a ship by means of a warp. Waist, that part of a ship contained between the quarter-deck and the fore-castle. : | Water-line, the line made by the water's edge when a ship has her full proportion of stores, etc., on board. :