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A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. And eke there was a polecat in his haw. Chaucer.

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or of a spindle. See Spindle.

The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Layard.

A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards. [Written also ink.]

A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.

An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship. Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.

a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby. Jewel block (Naut.), block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.

A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.

To shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.

broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies. Totten.

or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. His sense was strong and his style laconic. Welwood.

See Lanyard.

rge horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.

la latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin.] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth of its length from the lower end, to a low mast, this end being brought down at the tack, while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty-five degrees; -- used in small boats, fe…

A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.

Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.]