ationed among the waisters or
after-guard. Some of those used to small craft are more ready about the
decks than in going aloft. The rating is now Second-class Ordinary.

LAND-TURN. A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot
countries.

LAND-WAITERS. _See_ LANDING-WAITERS.

LANE. "Make a lane there!" An order for men to open a passage and allow
a person to pass through.

LANE OR VEIN OF ICE. A narrow channel between two fields. Any open
cracks or separations of floe offering navigation.

LANGREL, OR LANGRAGE. A villanous kind of shot, consisting of various
fragments of iron bound together, so as to fit the bore of the cannon
from which it is to be discharged. It is seldom used but by privateers.

LANGUET. A small slip of metal on the hilt of a sword, which overhangs
the scabbard; the ear of a sword.

LANIARD, OR LANNIERS. A short piece of rope or line made fast to
anything to secure it, or as a handle. Such are the laniards of the
gun-locks, of the gun-ports, of the buoy, of the cat-hook, &c. The
principal laniards are those which secure the shrouds and stays, termed
laniards of lower, top-mast, or other rigging. (_See_ DEAD-EYE and
HEART.)

LANTCHA. A large Malay craft of the Indian Archipelago.

LANTERN. Ships of war had formerly three poop-lanterns, and one in the
main-top, to designate the admiral's ship; also deck-lanterns,
fighting-lanterns, magazine-lanterns, &c. The signal-lanterns are
peculiar. The great ship lantern, hanging to the poop, appears on the
Trajan Column.

LANTERN-BRACES. Iron bars to secure the lanterns.

LANTERN-FISH. A west-country name for the smooth sole.

LANTIONE. A Chinese rowing-boat.

LANYARDS. _See_ LANIARD.

LAP-JOINTED. The plates of an iron vessel overlapping each other, as in
_clincher work_.

LAPLAND WITCHES. People in Lapland who profess to sell fair winds, thus
retaining a remnant of ancient classical superstition.

LAP OVER OR UPON. The mast carlings are said to lap upon the beams by
reason of their great depth, and head-ledges at the ends lap over the
coamings.

LAPPELLE, OR LAPEL. The facing of uniform coats. Until the introduction
of epaulettes in 1812, the _white lapelle_ was used as synonymous with
lieutenant's commission. Hence the brackish poet, in the craven
midshipman's lament--

"If I had in my country staid,
I then had learnt some useful trade,
And scorned the white lapelle."

LAPPING. The undulations occasion