caneer regulations respecting prize shares,
insisting that all prizes be divided among the captors.

JAMBEAUX. Armour to protect the legs.

JAMBING, OR JAMMING. The act of inclosing any object between two bodies,
so as to render it immovable while they continue in that position;
usually applied to a running rope, when, from pressure, it cannot travel
in the blocks; the opposite of _rendering_ (which see).

JAMBS. Door-posts in general; but in particular thick broad pieces of
oak, fixed up endways, between which the lights of the powder magazine
are fitted.

JAMMED IN A CLINCH. The same as _hard up in a clinch_ (which
see).--_Jammed in a clinch like Jackson_, involved in difficulty of a
secondary degree, as when Jackson, after feeding for a week in the
bread-room, could not escape through the scuttle.

JANGADA. A sort of fishing float, or rather raft, composed of three or
four long pieces of wood lashed together, used on the coasts of Peru and
Brazil. The owner is called a _jangadeira_, but the term is evidently an
application of _jergado_ (which see).

JANGAR. A kind of pontoon constructed of two boats with a platform laid
across them, used by the natives in the East Indies to convey horses,
cattle, &c., across rivers.

JANISSARY. A term derived from _jeni cheri_, meaning _new soldiers_, in
the Turkish service.

JANTOOK, OR CHUNTOCK. A Chinese officer with vice-regal powers: he of
Canton was called _John Tuck_ by our seamen.

JANTY, OR JAUNTY. A vessel in showy condition; dressed in flags.

JAPANESE WHALE-BOAT. A long, open, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan.

JARGANEE. A Manx term for small worms on the sea-shore, and used as
bait.

JARRING. The vibrations and tremblings occasioned in some steam-vessels
by the machinery.

JAVA POT. A kind of sponge of the species _Alcyonium_.

JAVELS. An old term for dirty, idle fellows, wandering about quays and
docks.

JAW. The inner, hollowed, semicircular end of a gaff or boom, which
presses against the mast; the points of the jaw are called _horns_.
Also, coarse and often petulant loquacity.--_Long-jawed_ applies to a
rope or cable, when by great strain it untwists, and exhibits one
revolution where four were before; similar to long and short threads of
the screw.

JAW-BREAKERS. Hard and infrequent words.

JAWING-TACKS. When a person speaks with vociferous fluency, he is said
to have hauled his jawing-tacks on board.

JAW-ME-DOWN. An arrogant, overbearing, and