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| Holding Ground | The type of bottom that the anchor is set in. |
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| Holding Tank | A storage tank where sewage is stored until it can be removed to a treatment facility. |
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| Holiday | A gap unintentionally left uncovered while painting or varnishing. |
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| Holystone | Sailor's name for a block of sandstone used for scrubbing the wooden decks of a ship; seamen had to get down on their knees to use them. Large holystones were known as "Bibles", while smaller blocks to reach awkward places were known as "Prayer Books" |
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| Hook | Slang for anchor |
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| Hoop | On gaff-rigged sailing vessels the luff of the mainsail is secured to the mast by wooden hoops, which slide up or down the mast as the sail is raised or lowered. |
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| Hoosegow | Jail |
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| Horizon | Where the water and sky or ground and sky appear to intersect. |
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| Horn Timber | A heavy longitudinal timber that angles upward from the stern to support the underside of the fantail. |
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| Horns | (1) The points of the jaws of a boom or gaff where they embrace the mast. (2) The outer ends of the crosstrees. |
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| Horse Latitudes | Areas of the ocean lying between the mostly westerly winds of the higher latitudes, and the trade winds. These areas usually have prolonged calms, and in the older days of sail it could take quite a while to clear out of this area, by which time the seamen had worked off their "dead horses" |
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| Horse Marine | An unhandy seaman. |
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| Horseshoe Buoy | A floatation device shaped like a U and thrown to people in the water in emergencies. |
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| Hounds | Wooden shoulders attached below the masthead to either side of a wooden mast which originally supported the trestle trees. |
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| Hove To | Lying nearly head to wind and stopped, and maintaining this position by trimming sail or working engines. |
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