or _chain-well_, where the chain-cables are kept;
best abreast the main-mast, as central weight, but often before the
fore-mast.--_Davy Jones' locker._ The bottom of the sea, where nothing
is lost, because you know where it is.--_Shot-lockers_, near the
pump-well in the hold. Also, the receptacle round the coamings of
hatchways.

LOCKET. The chape of a sword-scabbard.

LOCK-FAST. A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms.

LOCKING-IN. The alternate clues and bodies of the hammocks when hung up.

LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL. An expression derived from fire-arms, and
meaning the whole.

LOC-MEN, OR LOCO-MEN. An old term for pilots.

LOCOMOTIVE-POWER. The force of sails and wind, or steam.

LODE-MANAGE, OR LODEMANSHIP. The hire of a pilot. It also meant both
pilotage and seamanship; whence Chaucer--

"His herborough, his moone, and his lodemanage,
There was none such from Hull to Cartage."

LODE-MEREGE. In the laws of Oleron, seems identical with _lode-manage_.

LODE-SHIP. A pilot boat, which was also employed in fishing; it is
mentioned in statute 31 Edward III. c. 2.

LODESMEN. An Anglo-Saxon word for pilots.

LODE-STAR. The north star. But Spenser alludes to any star as a guide to
mariners:--

"Like as a ship, whose lode-star, suddenly
Cover'd with clouds, her pilot hath dismay'd."

Shakspeare coincides with this, in comparing Hermia's eyes to
lode-stars.

LODGE ARMS. The word of command to an armed party preparatory to their
breaking off.

LODGEMENT. In fortification, an established footing, such as a besieger
makes by throwing up hasty cover, against the fire of the defenders, on
any freshly gained post.

LODGING-KNEES, OR DECK-BEAM KNEES. Those riding on the hanging or
dagger-knees, and fixed horizontally in the ship's frame.

LODIA. A large trading boat of the White Sea.

LOE, OR LAWE. An eminence, whether natural or artificial.

LOFTY SHIPS. Once a general name for square-rigged vessels:--

"A mackerel sky and mares' tails
Make lofty ships carry low sails."

LOG-BOARD. Two boards shutting together like a book, and divided into
several columns, in which to record, through the hours of the day and
night, the direction of the wind and the course of the ship, with all
the material occurrences, together with the latitude by observation.
From this table the officers work the ship's way, and compile their
journals. The whole being written by the mate of the w