Boulene.* Old spelling of 'Bowline'.
Boulter. Fishing line consisting of long pieces of tarred rope fitted with hooks at fathom intervals, and sinkers near each hook.
Bound. Proceeding in a specified direction, or to a specified place.
Bourdon Gauge. Instrument for measuring pressure of steam by means of a curved piece of flattened bronze tubing, the end of which is sealed. When steam is admitted at open end the tube tends to straighten, thus moving sealed end. Appropriate gearing causes amount of movement to indicate corresponding pressure.
Bouse 52 Bow Shackle
Bouse. To heave, or haul, downwards on a rope. Originally, and strictly, heave meant an upward pull, haul meant a horizontal pull, bouse meant a downward pull: but these distinctions have not survived.
Bow. That part of a ship's side that extends aft and downwards from stem. 2. Direction between right ahead and 45° from it. 3. Bow of shackle is the rounded part opposite the jaw.
Bow Chaser. Gun mounted forward for firing at a pursued ship.
Bower Anchor. Principal anchor; carried forward and attached to a bower cable. Stowed in hawse pipe or on anchor bed.
Bower Cable. Cable attached to a bower anchor.
Bow Fast. Rope laid out from bow of vessel to a bollard or other fixure, on quay or wharf, for mooring.
Bowge.* Rope fastened to middle line of sail to make sail lie closer to wind.
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