BUS]                              NAUTICAL   DICTIONARY.

tailing a piece of metal into the vent of a gun, particularly of a
brass one, when the vent has got too large ; such a repair is very
insufficient.

BUSS. A stout built vessel with two masts, employed in the
herring fisheries.

BUTT. The joining of two timbers or planks which unite
endways.    See Hook- Scarph.

When a plank has been loosened at one end, by a vessel's
weakness, by labouring, or otherwise, she is said to have started
a butt.

Planks or pieces of timber which unite endways, are said to
butt or abut against each other ; and in like manner, the planks on
a vessel's side which run to the stem or to the sternpost, are said
to butt against the stem or sternpost respectively.

Butt also means the larger end of a tapering piece of timber.
Hence the phrase top and butt.    See Scuttled Butt,
BUTT-BOLTS.    See Bolts, 2, 8.

BUTTOCK. The rounding part of a vessel's after body,
under the counter.

BUTTOCK-LINES.    Longitudinal curves at the buttock and
bow representing the ship's- body cut in vertical section.
BUTTON.    See Gun, 20.
BUXIS.    A gratuity (a term used in India).
BUYSE.    A fishing vessel of Holland, whereof the bows are
very full; it has three short masts,  capable of being lowered
abaft, rigged with square  sails.     These vessels are employed
chiefly in the herring and mackerel fishing.

BY THE BOARD. A mast falling is said to go by the board,
when it has given way at or near deck.

BY THE HEAD. If a vessel draws more water forward
than aft, she is by the head. If her stern be lower in the water
than her head, she is by the stern.

BY THE WIND, or FULL AND BY. The same as close-
hauled, expressing the situation of a vessel when she keeps as close
to the wind as can be done without shaking the sails.
 

CABIN (Fr. Chambre).   An apartment for the accommodation
of the officers, crew, or passengers, on board of a vessel.    This
term is   sometimes applied  to the berths in which they sleep.
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