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navel- Naut.|ˈneɪv(ə)l|
Also 8–9 naval, nave-.
[Of obscure origin and meaning, occurring only as the first element in certain combs. There is no obvious connexion with navel n., and the form naval is a late alteration.]
†a. navel timbers, the first futtocks. Obs. rare.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 8 First lay the Keele..; then lay all the Flore timbers... Next your Nauell timbers. 1627― Seaman's Gram. ii. 2 The Sweepe or Mould of the Foot-hookes and Nauell timbers.
b. navel or nave-line: (see quots.).
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 143 Nave-line as big as the Cat-harpings, and as long. 1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expos. 111 Naveline is a Rope reeved through a Block made fast to the middle Rib, and another Block made fast to the Mast-head. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Nave-line [1789 Naval Line], a sort of small tackle, depending from the head of the main-mast and fore-mast,..used to keep the parrel directly opposite to the yard. 1848G. Biddlecombe Art of Rigging 22 Nave-line is a tackle from the masthead to the trusses [etc.]. 1863A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2), Naval Lines, a name given to the lines which hold up the truss-pendants parallel to their parts round the centre of a lower yard. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The reef or naval line is then middled.
c. navel hoods: (see quots.).
1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expos. 110 Navel Hoods are large Pieces of Stuff fayd against the Hawse Holes, and fills out to the outer Edge of the Cheeks, to keep the Cable from wearing them. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Building, The navel-hoods [are] fayed on the hawse-holes. 1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 116 Naval Hoods, or Hawse Bolsters, plank above and below the hawse-holes. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 135 Navel hoods, broad pieces of oak, from 6 to 10 inches thick..worked afore the hawse-holes on the outside of the ship, and likewise above and below them in those ships which have no cheeks to support a bolster.
d. navel pipe: (see quot.).
1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 4 Chain or Naval-pipes.—For leading the cable through, as it passes up from one deck to another, from the chain-lockers. |