ils are usually loosed and braced for canting; sheeted
home.--_Hove well short_, the position of the ship when she is drawn by
the capstan nearly over her anchor.

HOVE-TO. From the act of heaving-to; the motion of the ship stopped. It
is curious to observe that seamen have retained an old word which has
otherwise been long disused. It occurs in Grafton's _Chronicle_, where
the mayor and aldermen of London, in 1256, understanding that Henry III.
was coming to Westminster from Windsor, went to Knightsbridge, "and
_hoved_ there to salute the king."

HOW. An ancient term for the carina or hold of a ship.

HOWE, HOE, OR HOO. A knoll, mound, or elevated hillock.

HOW FARE YE? Are you all hearty? are you working together? a good old
sea phrase not yet lost.

HOWITZER. A piece of ordnance specially designed for the horizontal
firing of shells, being shorter and much lighter than any gun of the
same calibre. The rifled gun, however, throwing a shell of the same
capacity from a smaller bore, and with much greater power, is
superseding it for general purposes.

HOWKER. _See_ HOOKER.

HOWLE. An old English word for the hold of a ship. When the foot-hooks
or futtocks of a ship are scarphed into the ground-timbers and bolted,
and the plank laid up to the orlop-deck, then they say, "the ship begins
to howle."

HOY. A call to a man. Also, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop,
and employed in carrying passengers and goods, particularly in short
distances on the sea-coast; it acquired its name from stopping when
called to from the shore, to take up goods or passengers. In Holland the
hoy has two masts, in England but one, where the main-sail is sometimes
extended by a boom, and sometimes without it. In the naval service
there are _gun-hoy_, _powder-hoy_, _provision-hoy_, _anchor-hoy_, all
rigged sloop-fashion.

HOYSE. The old word for hoist.

HUBBLE-BUBBLE. An eastern pipe for smoking tobacco through water, which
makes a bubbling noise.

HUDDOCK. The cabin of a keel or coal-barge.

"'Twas between Ebbron and Yarrow,
There cam on a varry strong gale;
The skipper luicked out o' th' huddock,
Crying, 'Smash, man, lower the sail!'"

HUDDUM. The old northern term for a kind of whale.

HUER. A man posted on an elevation near the sea, who, by concerted
signals, directs the fishermen when a shoal of fish is in sight.
Synonymous with _conder_ (which see). Also, the hot fountains in the sea
near Iceland,