ting against rocks, the
shore, &c.--too often including loss of life. In early times the seizure
of goods, and even the murder of the mariners, was apt to be the
consequence.

SHIPWRIGHT. A builder of ships. The art of bending planks by fire is
attributed to Pyrrhon, the Lydian, who made boats of several
configurations.

SHIPYARD. Synonymous with _dockyard_.

SHIVER. Synonymous with _sheave_.

SHIVERING. To trim a ship's yards so that the wind strikes on the edges
or leaches of the sails, making them flutter in the wind. The same
effect may be intentionally produced by means of the helm.

SHOAL. A danger formed by sunken rocks, on which the sea does not break;
but generally applied to every place where the water is shallow,
whatever be the ground. (_See_ FLAT SHOAL, SHOLE, or SCHOLE.) Also,
denotes a great quantity of fishes swimming in company--_squamosae
cohortes_. Also, a vessel is said to shoalen, or shoal her water, when
she comes from a greater into a less depth.

SHOALED-HARBOUR. That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by
banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward.

SHOD, OR SHODE. An anchor is said to be shod when, in breaking it from
its bed, a quantity of clayey or oozy soil adheres to the fluke and
shank.

SHOE. The iron arming to a handspike, polar-pile, &c.

SHOE OF THE ANCHOR. A flat block of hard wood, convex on the back, and
having a hole sufficiently large to contain the bill of the anchor-fluke
on the fore-side; used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks on
the ship's bow when fishing it, for which purpose the shoe slides up and
down along the bow. Where vessels ease the anchor down to "a cock-bill,"
it is also sometimes used.--_To shoe or clamp an anchor._ To cover the
palms with broad triangular pieces of thick plank, secured by iron hoops
and nails. Its use is to give the anchor a greater resisting surface
when the mud is very soft. Also, for transporting on shore.

SHOE OF THE FORE-FOOT. _See_ FORE-FOOT, GRIPE, HORSE.

SHOE-PIECE. A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty
mass, to save the deck. In some cases intended to slip with it.

SHOLES. _See_ SOLE.

SHOOT, TO. To move suddenly; as "the ballast shoots on one side." Also,
a ship shoots ahead in stays. Also, to push off in a boat from the shore
into a current; to descend a rapid. The term is well used thus amongst
the powerful rivers of N. America, of which perhaps the finest example
is given by the