s of different sizes placed one
above the other, as in fiddle-blocks.

LONG-TAILS. A sobriquet for the Chinese.

LONG TIMBERS, OR LONG TOP-TIMBERS. Synonymous with _double futtocks_.
Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from the dead-wood to the head of
the second futtock, and forming a floor.

LONG TOGS. Landsman's clothes.

LONG TOM, OR LONG TOM TURKS. Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c.

LONG VOYAGE. One in which the Atlantic Ocean is crossed.

LONG-WINDED WHISTLERS. Chase-guns.

LOO, OR LOE. A little round hill or heap of stones.--_Under the loo_, is
shelter from the wind; to leeward.

LOOF. The after part of a ship's bow, before the chess-tree, or that
where the planks begin to be incurvated as they approach the stem.
Hence, the guns which lie here are called _loof-pieces_.

LOOF. Usually pronounced and spelled _luff_ (which see).

LOOK, TO. The bearing or direction, as, _she looks up_, is approaching
her course.--_A plank looks fore and aft_, means, is placed in that
direction.

LOOK-OUT. Watchful attention; there is always a look-out kept from the
forecastle, foretopsail-yard, or above, to watch for any dangerous
object lying near a ship's track, for any strange sail heaving in sight,
&c.; the officer of the watch accordingly calls frequently from the
quarter-deck to the mast-head-man appointed for this service, "Look out
afore there."

LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS. Beware; cautionary.

LOOM. The handle of an oar. Also, the track of a fish.

LOOM, TO. An indistinct enlarged appearance of any distant object in
light fogs, as the coast, ships, &c.; "that land looms high," "that ship
looms large." The effect of refraction.

LOOM-GALE. An easy gale of wind, in which a ship can carry her whole
top-sails a-trip.

LOON, OR LUNDE. The great northern diver, _Colymbus glacialis_. A bird
about the size of a goose, which frequents the northern seas, where "as
straight as a loon's leg," is a common comparison.

LOOP. A bight or bend. The winding of a river.

LOOP-HOLES. Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a
fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also, certain apertures
formed in the bulk-heads, hatches, and other parts of a merchant-ship,
through which small arms might be fired on an enemy who boarded her, and
for close fight. They were formerly called _meurtrieres_, and were
introduced in British slave-vessels.

LOOPS OF A GUN-CARRIAGE. The iron eye-bolts to which the tackles are
h