Nautical terms

And if all this is not enough try and get hold of:

"The Oxford companion to ships and the sea" , ISBN: 0 586 08308 1

Julian

usmc1371 wrote:

Terminology?  Are you assuming that seadogs talk differently?  What's so difficult about telling someone to "Head aft.  Go past three portholes, up the ladderwell, through the hatch and making sure you secure it, cross over to starboard near the welldeck, past the head and near the gallery you'll find the scuttlebutt"?  Seems like english to me... -Jesse

http://phrontistery.info/nautical.html

Terminology?  Are you assuming that seadogs talk differently?  What's so difficult about telling someone to "Head aft.  Go past three portholes, up the ladderwell, through the hatch and making sure you secure it, cross over to starboard near the welldeck, past the head and near the gallery you'll find the scuttlebutt"?  Seems like english to me...

-Jesse

Google knows all! I found this one that seems pretty complete, though some terms might be Australian and used nowhere else.

http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html

 For instance, I never heard the term "a--bill", and I went to sea for 40 years.

Fred

(Edit) Sheesh! I can't even say it on here!