Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a small part of a sail lowered in a gale to keep the ship's head to the sea.
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Examples
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Courage, my hearts, said the pilot; now she'll bear the hullock of a sail; the sea is much smoother; some hands aloft to the maintop.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Courage, my hearts, said the pilot; now she’ll bear the hullock of a sail; the sea is much smoother; some hands aloft to the maintop.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Courage, my hearts, said the pilot; now she’ll bear the hullock of a sail; the sea is much smoother; some hands aloft to the maintop.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
chained_bear commented on the word hullock
"Hullock of a sail, is when, in a great storm, some part is cut and left loose. It is chiefly used in the middle sail, to keep the ship's head to the sea; then all the rest of the sail is made up, excep ta little at the mizen-yardarm."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 199–200
October 12, 2008